<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Mountain Trader:
Bouncer-
No, You missed the point.
They're trying to make our joke of a security system safer in the face of a serious national threat that has killed 3,000 to 4,000 people.
They will make mistakes. And they will take stuff like SF Joe's cigar cutter-it's stupid events like that which evidenced that we needed some new rules and new people enforcing them .
So for a while our lives will likely be a little less convenient. And maybe, just maybe, a little safer one day. If we're lucky.
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Sorry to single you out, MT, I've been away from FT for a few days and I'm working in order.
Frankly, I think that flyers themselves will deal with a 9/11-style threat adequately next time. As I mentioned, my laptop, the F bottle of wine, the nasty Chilean merlot, each of those will likely suffice to deal with box cutters, cigar cutters, or the rest. I'm hoping that my government can protect me from things I can't fight, like the bomb in checked luggage. In the meantime, jerking me around with pseudosecurity measures to give me the illusion that they're on the case--that gets me down.
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