Email the White House about the latest ridiculous “security theater”
Posted by: geoff in Aviation, Politics, Violent worldI just sent the following email to the White House via their contact page.
Last year I flew nearly 100,000 miles on business: business that generated much needed US economic activity. And I flew almost all of those miles on US airlines, which desperately need the business. Travel is stressful enough these days, without the US government indulging in “security theater” to mollify people who bleat that Something Must Be Done.
The latest TSA regulations will do nothing to make us more secure, but will be extremely burdensome to many passengers and airline staff. They will drive away passengers, especially the elderly and parents with children, at a time when airlines are struggling to avoid layoffs and bankruptcy.
The last Republican administration used fear as a way of manipulating public opinion and pandering to the neo-cons. I had thought that the Obama administration was above such cynical tricks.
Get rid of these stupid knee-jerk regulations, please. Instead of increasing security, they simply punish law-abinding travelers.
I have no idea if this will do any good, but maybe if enough people make their voices heard…..
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Yes, it helps to put things into context too. “You are 12 times more likely to die from accidental suffocation in bed than from a terrorist attack” as this blog says http://is.gd/5CZoP
It would be fun to work out how many people come through the mexican, canadian, or other broder every minute illegally, and put that into context too.
It’s all show I think.
Thanks for speaking out! I don’t know how any intwelligent, thinking person can believe that locking the bathroom for the last hour of a flight is going to make it a safer flight! The new “measures” take ridiculousness to new heights.
Security theatre is truly “theatre of the absurd”!