Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Security Theater
X-ray machines can't detect the sorts of explosives that a shoe bomber would use. So X-raying shoes might detect a hidden shiv, but then the metal detectors would find those anyway. Know what would really make America more secure? If we stopped propping up right-wing antidemocratic régimes and corporations the world over. Then very few people would want to bomb us in the first place. But at least this is a step in the right direction.
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