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I love it. I encourage their presence at NFL games. I hope they give football fans a full body cavity search. Let Joe Sixpack endure their absurdity and maybe we'll actually see progress toward ending the TSA.

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I've been more violated entering NFL games than going through airport security, on average.

The problem is that the American people want to do anything about terrorists, crime or "for the children" at the expense of our civil liberties. It's entirely irrational. TSA at NFL games will not even remotely begin to change that.

There was a bit of an uproar about the increased security measures at NFL stadiums some years ago but it died down and things went on as usual.

I haven't been in the US for just over a decade. What is keeping Americans so concerned about terrorists all this time later?

Fox News, largely. You know how you see all sorts of ridiculous inaccuracies and jokes at Fox News's expense on the Internet? That's the most-watched news source in the United States.

I don't know if I would blame it on Fox. They practically function as the media arm of the Republicans, and it's not just Republicans pushing the buttons for fear of terrorism.

It can't be blamed on Fox News any longer. They're still cheerleaders for the "War on Terror", but these wars now belong to the current president. Do you see other news outlets questioning the current president's military occupations, drone attacks, etc?

Intermittent reports of thwarted terrorists plots (Richard Reed shoe-bombing type stuff), plus the fact that we're still at war in Afghanistan, in a standoff with Iran, occupying Iraq, and still hounding Al Qaeda everywhere we can.

Among other things, several prosecutions of accused terrorists arrested before they could blow stuff up. In almost all of these, the actual instigators were government agents working undercover, and the alleged "terrorists" who were actually put on trial were low-level accomplices who got lured (sometimes even bullied) into participating in the plot.

Here's an overview:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/...

There's also full TSA security at rallies for presidential/VP candidates. Clearly the problem isn't solvable by treating people worse until they won't bear it- the parties' core bases seem to have no problem with being cleared by TSA just to see a speech.

If you can afford tickets to actually go to an NFL game, you're in the same elite as air travelers if not richer.

or have a credit card and not a lot of sense

Yeah but you can use that to get airline tickets too.

Or a shitty team that can't sell seats (ahem, I'm from Jacksonville).

Lots of businesses give tickets to clients as a token of gratitude for sending work their way.

This won't do anything. Give the VIP box seats and season passholders the run-through, search them at orchestral events & the opera, maybe we'll see something. Maybe.

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