more on TSA may loosen carry-on, shoe-removal, other rules

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Angela Gunn <angela.gunn () gmail com>
Date: August 13, 2005 11:45:58 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] TSA may loosen carry-on, shoe-removal, other rules


Or anti-theater -- most of ths list is drawn from the pool of People
Who Could Actually Raise A Stink About TSA Foolishness And Make It
Effective. If Congresscritters, judges, Cabinet members, brass and
their don't have to put up with this nonsense, what are the odds
they're going to feel any sense of urgency when Joe Constituent writes
a equivocal "I don't mean to sound like I support the terrorists but
this system doesn't seem right" letter?

If American leadership honestly believed the system worked, they'd be
volunteering to stand on the checkpoint lines and endure the
possibility of patdown, as then we'd "all be in this together." As it
is, we accept bad political theater, we get... more bad political
theater.

--  

Angela Gunn
PC World's Digital Duo
pcworld.com/digitalduo

On 8/13/05, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:

> What happened to the excuse for searching and harassing old ladies
> and babies and handicapped.  You know -- maybe someone planted
> something on them. This is getting to be even more theater djf
>
>
>
> "The TSA memo proposes to minimize the number of passengers who must
> be patted down at checkpoints. It also recommends that certain
> categories of passengers be exempt from airport security screening,
> such as members of Congress, airline pilots, Cabinet members, state
> governors, federal judges, high-ranking military officers and people
> with top-secret security clearances."
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/12/
> AR2005081201557.html
>
>
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