Security At Super Bowl Indicates Future of Freedom

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security at the the Super Bowl itself promises to make attendance at football's championship game an awful lot like spending several hours at a very cold TSA checkpoint
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At MetLife stadium itself, attendees will be happy to know that tailgating is banned (OK, you can party in your parking space, if you have one, without a grill), vehicles may approach the venue only once, and the list of prohibited items is...long. Two columns, in fact. No banners, frisbees, or umbrellas, for sure, so have fun and hope for clear skies.
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Fan screenings begin at 2 p.m. on game day. Fans will enter heated welcome pavilions at MetLife Stadium, where they can expect to encounter walk-through metal detectors, X-ray machines, K-9 dogs and pat-down searches. They are encouraged to arrive early to avoid delays and to speed up stadium entrance.
Shockingly, MetLife Stadium points out that hotel rooms remain available. You don't say.
This multi-square-mile, prison-style lockdown must be in response to dastardly threats, right? Nope. "As of this time there are no threats directed against this event that we're aware of," New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton said just yesterday. This is all just in case.
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Noble, who was Undersecretary for Enforcement of the United States Department of the Treasury before he took the Interpol job, strongly suggested that letting people take responsibility for their own safety—specifically, he referred to "armed citizenry"—made more sense than what we're now seeing at the Super Bowl.
It also, incidentally, might also allow for a game that's more enjoyable to attend, and less like visiting a politician in prison.
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Once you're deploying surveillance cameras and an "amazing arsenal of security initiatives" for themed street fairs, you're only a step away from making that part of daily life.

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Is Crazed Super Bowl Security a Taste of America To Come?
Think of a TSA checkpoint that goes on, forever.
J.D. Tuccille
January 30, 2014