Here’s to getting over prudish self-consciousness and welcoming all-seeing, full-body scans…. Mind you, nothing demonstrates what a haphazard farce airport security has become quite like the fact that, after the shoe bomber bungled his attempt in December 2001, we were led to believe that every passenger had to take off his/her shoes for separate scanning to ensure air safety. For if this made any logical sense, after this underwear bomber bungled his attempt, surely every passenger would have been required henceforth to take off his/her underwear for separate scanning…, no?
[Terror in the sky … another close call, TIJ, December 29, 2009]
NOTE: I appreciate why this one bungled act is commanding so much government attention and media coverage. But please bear in mind that it’s far more likely that a disgruntled worker (or an alienated student) will shoot up a bunch of people at his office (or school) than it is that an Islamic terrorist will succeed in blowing up an airplane.
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