Dick Cavett op ed piece, Flying Increasingly for the Birds, in The New York Times
Cavett had an amusing piece today in the paper, about the TSA pat-downs. And of course there are over 4 pages of comments on the piece. 99% if not 100% speak pretty disparagingly about the TSA.
A few people posted that those folk who are "frequent flyers" or who the security screener actually knows should be allowed to go through without security checks - or at least not such stringent ones as the other folks go through.
But, of course, it's important to search those folks as thoroughly or even more thoroughly!
Why?
Well, because it's the people whom you most trust who can - and will - steal the most money from you, or kill you in your bed.
Take the folks who embezzle hundreds of thousands of dollars from their business or church. Is it some newly hired guy off the street who does this? No. It's someone who has been in the organization for years, who has become trusted, and who is therefore given access to all that money.
And of course, percentage-wise, family members are typically killed by other family members, or friends, whom they most trust.
So treating some passengers differently than others because you know them.... bad idea.
As for profiling - searching Muslims extensively because most terrorists are Muslim, for example - that makes sense to me. But, as the loon in Norway showed us, terrorists can show up on any side of the political spectrum - because people are people, they see what works, and they implement it themselves.
We live in a scary world.
If we had a competent Big Brother/Big Sister looking out for us, I actually wouldn't mind, unfortunately incompetence seems to be the natural order of things these days, in every walk of life.
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