mikeymo.

squashed:

… for the same reasons I dislike police states. No liquids. No powders. No acting weird. No objection to random searches. No putting blankets on your lap. What’s the obsession with security? Once you’ve strengthened cockpit doors so planes can no longer be used as missiles, what separates them from any other potentially crowded area? Why the excess screening? The reason there are few attempts to blow up airplanes is not because we have successfully restricted people from blowing up airplanes. It’s because not many people want to blow up airplanes.

I sat down for dinner tonight in a restaurant full of people. None of them had even walked through metal detectors. I didn’t feel particularly unsafe. And if I had to board a plane with that same group of people, I wouldn’t particularly worry about them.

What’s the point of all the increasingly invasive security measures? Why isn’t there more of an outcry? Is it because we like what they symbolize?

My thoughts exactly.