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konjin

Mandatory real time tracking of every citizen.

Sounds insane?

So did the patriot act in the 90s.

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Not every lockdown entails tracking of individuals.

And 9/11 would have not been stopped by forcing everyone to take their shoes off before getting on the plane.

Yet here we are 20 years later still doing it.

That was technically done by Richard Reid, the shoe bomber. That incident started the shoe thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid

One guy later was the underwear bomber. Thank God that didn't take.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab

Yeah, another 9/11 was basically stopped by adding locked compartments and training the pilots in self-defense techniques, some of which are even armed.

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