{"id":1266,"date":"2010-01-22T11:07:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2010-01-22T13:01:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T18:01:37","slug":"dear-congress-please-end-security-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/dear-congress-please-end-security-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Congress: Please end “security theatre”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Congress:<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, the Bakersfield, CA airport was closed because TSA agents became hysterical at the site of honey<\/a> in a bottle. Just recently, a New York-to-Kentucky flight was diverted to Philadelphia because a Jewish passenger started to pray<\/a>. Simply getting on<\/em> an airplane has become a dehumanizing and all-too-often humiliating<\/a> experience — and it serves no useful purpose.<\/p>\n

This is ridiculous<\/strong>. None<\/strong> of this makes us safer<\/a>. All it does is make airplane travel more tedious, more expensive — and more unlikely, if the traveler has any choice in the matter.<\/p>\n

One or two well-publicized incidents do not change the fact that air travel is far, far, far safer than driving. More people die in car crashes in one month than have died in airplane crashes in the past decade<\/strong> (including the ones on September 11, 2001).<\/p>\n

Please abolish the TSA, stop the wild-eyed fearmongering, and allow us to go back to traveling the “friendly skies”.<\/p>\n

Kind regards,
\nAn American Traveler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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