Vin Suprynowicz writes, recently, that the federal anti-terror measures won't do jack shit to protect innocent American lives, and he's right. What good does it do, now, to show "government-issued photo ID" every twenty feet once you're in an airport, or to ban lighters and matches? How on earth does the FAA injunction to use the lavatory in your own compartment -- first class or coach -- make anyone at all safer?
How bad, how truly senseless and stupid can it get? Try returning a rental car at the airport in Nashville, Tennessee. You get stopped by a guard, and you have to show a photo ID in order to get by. Not, mind you, to get away with the car, but to return the goddamned thing.
No wonder Bin-Laden probably did escape from Tora Bora.
Posted by Craig Ceely at March 24, 2005 10:57 PM