http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...081001591.html

No Cutting
Should elite airline passengers get to skip security lines -- even during a national emergency?
Friday, August 11, 2006; Page A18

AVIATION OFFICIALS claim that airport security waits yesterday weren't much longer than normal. But to travelers, some queues seemed longer than your average Siberian bread line after the Transportation Security Administration added new requirements -- including removing all liquids from carry-on luggage -- to the long list of security protocols airline passengers already had to endure.

Most air travelers took the beefed-up security -- and the occasionally interminable waits that followed -- in stride. First- and business-class passengers in most airports, on the other hand, didn't have to. As usual, higher-class passengers skipped most of the security queues at hubs such as Dulles and Los Angeles international airports. That's hardly fair.

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Maybe the Post columnist should have been questioning why the lines were so long to begin with (inane water ban) rather than wishing everyone had to suffer equally for the TSA's idiocy.

The idea makes no sense. If I had a Washington Post subscription, I would cancel it and demand a refund.

MisterNice

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Maybe they will see fit to print a couple opposing viewpoints.

Totally freaking stupid - given that elite frequent flyers come from all walks of life and a wide range of income levels, with one thing in common: tens or hundreds of thousands of miles with their butts in airline seats.

Read this on the subway into the city this morning and already putting together a letter to the editor (August being a slow month in DC!). The amazing part to me is the misinformation this conveys by not mentioning that elites can generally use these lines as well...elites who many times have no real chance of being upgraded into first class. Of course actually including all the information might take away the power of the political point the Post is trying to make...

Did I miss something. Where's the national emergency?

I am writing my own rebuttal to the Post to counter their nonsensical article...which was only designed to stir up controversy. If this were the 1950s, I could gain some traction by claiming their viewpoint was Communist

The Washington Post has generally approved of citizens slavishly obeying asinine governmental policies, why did this surprise any of you?

--PP

My rather lengthly letter to the Post just went out...let's see how they respond.

IIRC, it was the old USSR that promised a one class society. I think the cub reporter got stuck in the long line and was ticked watching his boss sail thru the short line.

A private company, an airline, wants to reward its best customers and the WP opposes this concept? EZ way to out them. Their press room uses a million rolls of newsprint a year. Do they accept the quantity discount for being a major buyer, or does management order purchasing "Get the price quote on the one roll amount, its not fair for us to acept the 30% discount for being a volume customer."

But on the other hand, why in the hell would you ever subscribe to trash like that in the first place.

Pathetic, but to be expected from such a Left-leaning publication.

And my pithy note went to them about an hour ago. What a bunch of bs.

I am in an activist mood today.

There are left-leaning publications?