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Dec 22nd, 2006 at 8:29 am by Susie
Avedon makes a salient point:
Have I mentioned recently that the 9/11 hijackers flew first class? C’mon, people, why should you believe any of the security you are being subjected to in airports is good for anything when well-funded fliers can avoid it all just by paying more money?
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It’s security theater, meant to impress the ignorant and gullible.
But we can’t have it inconvenience our wealthy Å°berClass masters, now can we?
The Grumpy Physicist is right.
Most of the “security screening” is theater for the rubes. The government uses a bunch of former school hall monitors and cop wannabes to make us dance around in our stocking feet as they rifle our possessions looking for hair gel, nail-clippers, and matches.
What’s the point? It’s to condition the dopes into giving up more and more of their civil liberties. All so we can “feel safe.”
Wealthy white guys flying first class will always have rights, so they don’t need to see the show. That’s why there’s a special line for them.
Actually, it might make sense to screen the first-class passengers more carefully; they’ll be the ones closest to the cockpit. (I assume — but haven’t read anything about it — that’s why the hijackers bought first-class tickets.)
But I’m not a security professional. I wonder what they’d think of that — it’s probably nonsense, but I do wonder. I doubt they’d be thrilled with the idea of a list of preferred passengers who get to bypass security checks, but again, I’m not a pro. What do I know?
But “security theater” reminds me of Bruce Schneier, who *is* a security professional. I seem to recall him writing something to the effect that if we cannot keep weapons and drugs out of maximum-security prisons — and we can’t — we don’t have much of a chance of keeping them out of airplanes.
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