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November 22, 2017 08:20 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Tx7nfgDcDHM/nobody-expects-the-american-in.html
Behold! The astonishing mental gymnastics of TSA apologists explaining why rich people don't need to be screened
The project of making planes secure from terrorist attacks is an inescapable nonsense: nonsense because there's no way to screen millions of people to prevent a few dedicated ones from bringing down a plane (no, really); inescapable because no lawmaker or policymaker will ever have the courage to remove a measure that has previously been described as "essential for fighting terrorism" even if it was only ever security theater intended to assuage low-information voters. (more…)
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