"Whenever anyone answers falsely at a security checkpoint, it should raise a red flag in a security officer's mind. If they see a significant modification of consumer electronics that makes no sense for its operation, that should raise another red flag. In this case, the Arabic surname and the Qu'ran are secondary issues; anyone who presents the first two issues should be held until they can get clearance through the FBI as to whether the passenger poses a threat. Arguing that a slow computer response alleviates them from this responsibility just means that the people involved do not have the appropriate understanding of their mission."Really, we should just stop screening passengers. It's entirely risible.
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." --Jesus
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious" --George Orwell
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
Monday, July 10, 2006
Yet more proof that the only things between us and a 9/11 replay are the reinforced cockpit doors and planes full of passengers that know better now than to sit like sheep: