IP: more on: [ worth thinking about djf]SIMSON SAYS - FAKE SECURITY

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Yup and it is even worse than this djf

> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:21:20 -0600
> From: gep2 () terabites com
> Subject: Re: IP: [ worth thinking about djf]SIMSON SAYS - FAKE SECURITY
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
>
> Yeah, this whole thing is ludicrous.  NONE of the three main 
> "safety/security"
> provisions:
>
>   1)  only ticketed passengers having access to concourses and waiting areas
>
>   2)  closing the 'convenient' parking near the terminal building
>
>   3)  ending convenient curbside baggage checkin
>
> NONE of those would have done ANYTHING to prevent the Sept 11 attacks (and as
> pointed out with the truck bomb example, don't even prevent what they 
> CLAIM to
> be trying to prevent).
>
> Instead, what we're seeing is a "Dilbert moment" on a positively colossal 
> scale:
>  some nameless/faceless Washington boss/bureaucrat, not wanting to be 
> [not] seen
> as "not doing anything", instead pushes through a bunch of idiotic,
> ill-thought-out and ineffective measures that inconvenience the public and
> accomplish little or nothing else.  (But hey, they "look like they're 
> trying"...
> riiiiiiight.)
>
> Even the restriction on onboard tableware accomplishes darned little, 
> since (and
> I hate to even point this out...) a simple sharpened lead pencil from a 
> pocket
> or attache case can inflict a lethal puncture wound if jabbed into an onboard
> victim's major artery or something.
>
> Is the bureaucrats' REAL goal to do stuff that's SO stupid that it causes the
> alarmed public to shut up and take the heat off the government to do 
> something
> ACTUALLY worthwhile?  (Like:  "Jeez!!  Let's not dare see what REALLY 
> stupid BS
> they come up with next..!")
>
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