Vice.com - It's a farce

[weams]

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/yankee-stadiums-next-gen-security-tech-isnt-making-anyone-safer

For a sports fan concerned about convenience and safety, there are two ways of looking at this. One is that MLB teams are partnering with a private company to get us all to sign over our personal data and fingerprints in the cause of a system that doesn't do squat to make anyone the slightest bit safer. The other, given that it's all security theater anyway, is that MLB teams have realized that the metal detector mandate has made getting into games a disaster, and are now looking for an escape route. If fingerprint scanners are the magic beans that let them pretend they're being vigilant, then hell, fingerprint scanners it is.

The simpler solution, of course, would be just to admit that the whole metal detector fiasco is pointless, and to let everyone in without being searched, the way things were back in the 20th century. If it makes you feel any safer, MLB could issue free membership cards to every baseball fan on the planet, and only those people would be allowed into games. Surely no bad guys could ever get their hands on those.

[Woody Held]

Geroge Orwell was just 30 years off

[weams]

Geroge Orwell was just 30 years off

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Beware the savage jaw.

[DrinkinWithFermi]

I hope the fingerprint scanner thing doesn't come to pass.

I'd really miss going to baseball games

[DrungoHazewood]

Hopefully in 20 or 30 years we'll look back at the madness of today's uber-security and think of it kind of like we now think of the Red Scare and McCarthyism. This weird, mass overreaction that one day they just decided was insane and everyone went back to normal.

[El Gordo]

Hopefully in 20 or 30 years we'll look back at the madness of today's uber-security and think of it kind of like we now think of the Red Scare and McCarthyism. This weird, mass overreaction that one day they just decided was insane and everyone went back to normal.

The Red scare was replaced by the Bomb scare and now it''s the Terrorists scare. There will always be a scare.

[MurphDogg]

It isn't Orwell, it is security theater. It does keep me from bringing a can of Boh in my back pocket though.

[weams]

Hopefully in 20 or 30 years we'll look back at the madness of today's uber-security and think of it kind of like we now think of the Red Scare and McCarthyism. This weird, mass overreaction that one day they just decided was insane and everyone went back to normal.

Only after Joseph Welch come to the rescue.

In a dramatic confrontation, Joseph Welch, special counsel for the U.S. Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether communism has infiltrated the U.S. armed forces. Welch's verbal assault marked the end of McCarthy's power during the anticommunist hysteria of the Red Scare in America.

[DrungoHazewood]

The Red scare was replaced by the Bomb scare and now it''s the Terrorists scare. There will always be a scare.

Being twitchy and over-reacting is probably in the genes. It's the same programming that enabled our ancestors to not get eaten by whatever is hiding behind that rock. Except we now live in a world so free of things that are going to get us that we live to be nearly 90.

[Guest rochester]

Hopefully in 20 or 30 years we'll look back at the madness of today's uber-security and think of it kind of like we now think of the Red Scare and McCarthyism. This weird, mass overreaction that one day they just decided was insane and everyone went back to normal.

By then, we'll finally be told about the chips inserted in every child since the mid-90's. :scratchchinhmm:

[Nevermore]

Just show up in a wheelchair. Then they'll probably skip you for the metal detection.

So if I were a terrorist, I'd come in wheelchair. It's ridiculous. :rolleyestf:

[scOtt]

The Red scare was replaced by the Bomb scare and now it''s the Terrorists scare. There will always be a scare.

But what are we going to do about the BOMBER GAP???

[MrOrange82]

Apologies for being the killjoy, but this thread topic seems to be very political...and I'll add that I seem to have pretty strong views that are diametrically opposed to most of those already voiced.

I'd appreciate it if we stuck to more on-field type things...so I could imply that fellow posters are backwards/dinosaurs without treading on their (maybe?) God-given rights to various views on personal/public freedom/security.

[phaedrusX]

It isn't Orwell, it is security theater. It does keep me from bringing a can of Boh in my back pocket though.

I've switched it up to a plastic pint of Beam this year. Far more detrimental to my health, unfortunately.

[MDtransplant757]

Give it time. The US will get out of the Middle east and stop having an interventionist foreign policy, and this will all be a thing of the past that we'll laugh at later on down the road.