Remember the childhood game, Simon Says?  
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I am pretty much convinced that the folks behind the overbearing nature of security oriented policy played this game a lot and always had to be <i>it</i>.  
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Personally, I`m tired of this game and would prefer to play <i>Kick the Can</i> where the can is these moronic-security-obsessed-idiot`s butts.
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The reality is that we have reconciled ourselves to Fascism in the form of security shakedowns and barriers on the pretext that it is good for us.  Same old song, different piper.