I suppose, since it's all trendy and all I have to weigh on the latest kerfuffle over airport security. Somehow, somewhere- I'm not quite sure when, the Transportation Security Agency debuted these full body scanners, which essentially take a picture of you that pretty clearly shows off your genitals. People were understandably less than thrilled about this.
The alternative? Apparently, its an enhanced patdown- and unless you've been living under a rock for the past month or so, I don't think I need to rehash the horror stories that have been played out ad naseum throughout the country.
Me: I say enough already. It's obvious that this is some kind of a crazy governmental mandated intersection of security obsession and political correctness. We have to be uber-prepared and we can't pick on people, because that might offend someone. (Heaven forbid!) Personally, the lack of judgment allotted to these security professionals is what makes me so angry. They're not allowed to say, 'hey, this 3 year old kid doesn't deserve a cavity search, because he's three years old'- no, they have to pat EVERYONE down. If you're going to trumpet the professionalism of your employees, it'd be nice if you let them exercise some independent judgment. I'm sorry, but the Israelis simply don't do it this way…
That said: there is a somewhat delicious irony that the very same people (from the rightward side of the ship o'fools) rushing us into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, ramming through the Patriot Act, setting up Gitmo and doing god knows what else to our civil liberties in the aftermath of 9/11 are now the ones so outraged by the very security state they supported and helped to set up.
No comments:
Post a Comment