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>A short history of airport security: We screen for guns and bombs, so the terrorists use box cutters. We confiscate box cutters and corkscrews, so they put explosives in their sneakers. We screen footwear, so they try to use liquids. We confiscate liquids, so >they put PETN bombs in their underwear. We roll out full-body scanners, even though they wouldn’t have caught the Underwear Bomber, so they put a bomb in a printer cartridge. We ban printer cartridges over 16 ounces — the level of magical thinking here is amazing — and they’re going to do something else.
>This is a stupid game, and we should stop playing it.
Problem is...when they stop doing this and a plane blows up? We will see endless hand-wringing from the same people saying that our safety is not worth this invasive treatment about how they didn't do anything to stop them and how is the government trying to keep us safe fro terrorists. See, other countries try and be watchful-yet accept a successful bombing here and there. This escalation has been going on for the last decade. And Americans are unwilling to accept what other nations do...sometime the terrorists succeed and blow places up. We throw fits at UNSUCCESFUL attempts and blame the president for not doing a good enough job. I might buy what is being sold (the outrage) if I didn't know that the minute a terrorist succeeds on our soil again? All the people denouncing that the Administration and the TSA are going to far will cry out that they are not doing enough.
Thom
http://thomwade.wordpress.com/
http://www.cafepress.com/Thomwade
http://www.in-one-ear.com
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