Sunday, November 17, 2013

Let's make life as inconvenient as possible

When we fly, we are told that in the name of safety, we need to take off our shoes, we can't wear belts, and that, save for a few, no liquids can pass through the security checkpoint. We unpack our laptops, and pull whatever we have in our pockets out to be scanned. We then pass through either metal detectors, or a scanning machine that produces images that look like this:
When we are finished with this dance, we frenetically put our shoes back on, shove our belongings back into a backpack, and run, holding our pants up to our gate, hoping that the 45 minutes we stood in line to be verified that we are not a terrorist didn't cause us to miss our flight.

Initially, I did not have a problem with all of these procedures. Anyone can google the anarchist's cookbook and using a few simple chemicals, injure, maim, and kill.

These security protocols are slowly spreading to

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