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星期六， 2008年7月19日
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我上星期是被傷害的由於政府的可笑機場安全節目的從芝加哥的美國空氣飛行向費城。 我也看見了多麼無意義整件事是，如果假想的目標真正地是防止航空公司搶劫。

首先，我的傷害。 由於傻的恐懼我也許鼓起一架飛機與炸藥捲起了入我的跑鞋， I，與所有的人一起在安全檢查站線在O』野兔，包括佩帶一點贓物的二月老嬰孩，必須除去我的鞋類。 穿在正義襪子，我設法在拿著運載我的膝上計算機的那些塑料盤子、我的鞋子、我的傳送帶和變動和鑰匙的金屬櫃臺附近操縱我的方式和我隨身攜帶的袋子，并且在過程我無保護的大腳趾擊中了推出從桌的一片鋒利的金屬。

金屬切了在我的趾甲之下，做痛苦和血淋淋的裁減成軟的組織在釘子之下。 詛咒和流血，我通過金屬探測器做了我的方式，并且收集了我的物品。

現在，在我的袋子裡面， unbeknownst對運輸安全管理審查員，是一個瓶漱口。 它大於批准的2盎司大小，并且它不在批准的被密封的塑料袋。 但調查他們的錄影屏幕的TSA審查員X光機沒看見它，因為我確信，它是垂直的作為它通過了。 所有他們鋸是塑料一個小的圈子。 同樣，在一次更早的飛行，我用瑞士軍刀做了我的方式登上。 通過站立它在我隨身攜帶的袋子，以便它為X-射線是垂直的，我能滑倒它通過和飛機。

現在清楚地我不是恐怖分子(雖則一度，由於我的反布什，非戰新聞事業，并且曝光關於TSA 「沒有飛行」名單惡習，我是在手錶名單，和在我的登艙牌將得到盤旋的「S」寫道，保證我會被拉扯在旁邊安排我隨身攜帶的行李手被搜尋)。 但，如果我是恐怖分子， I沒肯定將設法強徵一架飛機用大折刀。 我會想要更大的事。 但那是簡單的。 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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