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It's not unprecedented for events of this size, there have been snipers at every Super Bowl for at least the last 10 years. If you've been to an NFL game in the last couple years you've been under heavy surveillance whether you realized it or not.
Yes but it is getting even tighter.
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And an unprecedented security plan is in full effect. There are bomb sniffing dogs, fighter jets and helicopters in the sky and high-speed boats in the water with radiological detection and infrared sensors. Every delivery to the stadium is getting a police escort.
Why should the non game going taxpayers foot the bill for all this paranoia?
Ah! It's all about the money.
I'm sure the people attending are quite happy with the security arrangements. It's those pesky tax payers in the flyover states who arn't within a thousand miles of the venue that think that super bowl security is a waste of taxpayer's money.
I'm sure the people attending are quite happy with the security arrangements. It's those pesky tax payers in the flyover states who arn't within a thousand miles of the venue that think that super bowl security is a waste of taxpayer's money.
Got it
So you cant answer my question?
Again, why should those not in attendence be paying, or in other words,why isnt the NFL providing its own security? Certainly it has the money.
So you cant answer my question?
Again, why should those not in attendence be paying, or in other words,why isnt the NFL providing its own security? Certainly it has the money.
I thought the security of the nation and it's venues was a function of Homeland security, a taxpayer funded operation. Sorry.
This year's superbowl will have snipers, swat teams as well as fighter jets patrolling for any threats. Some people may feel that this is what it takes to keep people safe. Others will argue that this is a sure sign that the police state has arrived and that we have traded our freedoms for "safety". I am in the latter camp. Curious how people feel about this.
The police state??? How exactly will people lose their freedom at the super bowl. Have you not learned anything from the boston marathon.
This year's superbowl will have snipers, swat teams as well as fighter jets patrolling for any threats. Some people may feel that this is what it takes to keep people safe. Others will argue that this is a sure sign that the police state has arrived and that we have traded our freedoms for "safety". I am in the latter camp. Curious how people feel about this.
I'm with you in the latter camp.
Political correctness was already our sole national purpose prior to 911, so it ruled and controlled our response to it....a response that placed the entirety of the citizenry under equal suspicion, deliberately shifting focus away from threats of known, fact-based likelihood.
PC madness creeps forward every day with confiscation of more and more of our individual liberties. And relatively few, like you and I, give it a second thought. America as it was and as it was intended is gone....taken over from within.
Freedom lovers find ourselves in much the same position as did our founders in about 1770.
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