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Sábado, julho 19o, 2008
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Eu era agradecimentos feridos ao programa ridiculous da segurança do aeroporto do governo última semana em um vôo do ar dos E.U. de Chicago a Filadélfia. Eu vi também como pointless a coisa inteira é, se o objetivo suposto fosse realmente impedir hijackings da linha aérea.

Primeiramente, meu ferimento. Por causa de um medo silly que eu pude fundir - acima de um plano com explosivos dobrou em minhas sapatas running, I, junto com todos outro na linha do ponto de verificação da segurança Hare de O', including os bebês dois-mês-velhos que desgastam booties pequenos, teve que doff meus calçados. Clad em socks justos, eu tentei manobrar minha maneira em torno de um contador do metal que prendesse aquelas bandejas plásticas que carregam meu laptop, minhas sapatas, minha correia e mudança e chaves, e meu carreg-no saco, e no processo meu dedo do pé grande desprotegido bateu uma parte afiada de metal que projeta-se da tabela.

O metal cortou para a direita sob meu toenail, fazendo um corte doloroso e sangrento no tecido macio sob o prego. Cursing e sangrar, eu fiz minha maneira através do detetor de metal, e coletei meus bens.

Agora, dentro de meu saco, o unbeknownst aos inspectors da administração da segurança do transporte, era um frasco do mouthwash. Era maior do que o tamanho aprovado de 2 onças, e não estava em um saco plástico selado aprovado. Mas os inspectors de TSA que olham em suas telas video na máquina de raio X não a viram, porque eu me certifiquei de que era vertical como ela passou completamente. Tudo serra eram um círculo pequeno do plástico. Do mesmo modo, em um vôo mais adiantado, eu tinha feito minha maneira a bordo com uma faca suíça do exército. Estando o no meu carreg-no saco de modo que fosse vertical para o raio X, eu podia deslizá-lo através e no plano.

Agora claramente eu não sou um terrorista (though por um momento, os agradecimentos a meu anti-Bush, o journalism anti-war, e uma exposição sobre os TSA “nenhum-voa” abusos da lista, eu estava na lista do relógio, e começariam um “S circundado” escrito em minhas passagens boarding que assegurado de que eu estivesse puxado de lado para ter o meu carreg-na mão da bagagem procurarada). Mas se eu fosse um terrorista, I certo não tentaria commandeer um plano com um jackknife. Eu quereria algo mais grande. Mas isso seria simples. One could easily carry on a 10-inch blade the same way. If one were nervous about doing that, it could be a ceramic or better, a Plexiglas blade—plenty dangerous, but invisible to X-rays and metal detectors.

For that matter, if I were into suicide bombing and wanted to manufacture a liquid explosive, why on earth would I try to do it by smuggling on two large jars of ingredients, when I could just put them in plastic baggies and carry them aboard in my pockets? Unless you happen to be singled out for special handling, nobody at the security checkpoints pats you down. They just have you walk through the metal detectors while TSA inspectors are busy patting down randomly selected elderly nuns and racially profiled people, like unfortunate Sikh men wearing turbans.

Any dedicated terrorist hijacker could figure out numerous ways to get explosives and weapons onto a plane past these security arrangements.

And that’s not even counting having the weapons smuggled into an airport gate area along with all the goods that are offered for sale there, where they could be picked up after a hijacker had already cleared security. There is no way that all the newspapers, magazines, clothing, trinkets, bottles of booze and personal hygiene products, etc., are screened adequately as they are brought in each day to fill the concession stands for the day’s business. First of all, one would have to open and check every bottle and box offered for sale.

If you were genuinely worried about protecting against hijackers, you would have those inspections at the entrance to each plane, not at the entrance to the terminal, and you wouldn’t have all that commerce inside the security zone. Ah! But what a roar of outrage we’d hear from the business community if that lucrative business venue were eliminated!

Which brings me to the real question: Why do we have all this pointless and easily breached security, not to mention a list that contains an astonishing one million names of suspected “terrorists”?

Clearly, the security program is not about protecting the flying public, or the nation’s tall buildings. That could be done much more cheaply by putting air marshals on all flights, the way they do at El Al, the Israeli airline that has never had a successful hijacking.

No, this is all about heightening the fear level of the American people, to routinize us to living in a police state.

The truth is, nobody is really interested in trying to hijack planes anymore. First of all, the “crash into buildings” tactic is dead. Pilots are now flying armed in armored cockpits that cannot be easily entered, and would not accede to a terrorist’s demands any longer, knowing what happened last time. And passengers would not sit passively in a cabin takeover attempt, either. As a result, we don’t have to worry about such things any longer.

The ease with which security could be breached, and the fact that it hasn’t happened now for seven years, is evidence enough that nobody is even trying to do it.

So let’s do away with all this time-consuming, costly, and politically motivated nonsense before I injure my other big toe.

DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based investigative journalist and columnist. His latest book is “The Case for Impeachment” (St. Martin’s Press, 2006 and now available in paperback).  His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net

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