About 26 Years Too Late
It's a little sad to see this country collapse in upon itself as it struggles to react not to legitimate threats, but to anything our crazed and fevered American imaginations can create. Seriously, consider the humble, yet weaponized, garden-variety nail-clipper. This little tool, designed for a simple task, has been given the power to not only make your delicate hands look pretty, but it can now bring down a jumbo jet and turn our precious nation of freedom into a burnt-out theocratic wasteland of oppressive Sharia law where our only recourse to end the inevitable suffering is to cower and bow to Mecca and worship Allah.
If you can imagine it, it's a threat, and every squeak of the mouse is something to fear.
Break a shoelace on a flight, and your fellow passengers, ginned up with fear and suspicion as a result of an endless protocol of questions, gropings, x-rays, and more questions, will shit their ever-loving selves silly to see something as innocently non-conformist as a broken shoelace.
Cigarette lighters, bottles of water, a block of cheese, that little doo-dad you picked up thinking it would look neat on a keychain. All these things are now weapons that could bring down an airplane and take away our freedom.
One of the better things you'll read today is a piece by security guru Bruce Schneier on, among other things, the irrational, "deadlier than terrorist" (which is to say that they're really not all that dangerous) backscatter x-ray devices hastily being put in place just in time to
Good luck, America. When our nation was attacked, we all had a choice. Fear or bravery. What you see going on today is the result of that choice we made.
-DP
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