Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 25, 2016

Reactionary security will always be behind.

Isn’t it more like allusion of security, in this case?

We can only hoop for the best nowadays…

And we gave up some freedoms for this illusion. FOOLS.

It’s ALWAYS been motion not action. All style, no substance.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/topsecretamerica/

https://www.aclu.org/other/more-about-department-homeland-security-spying

This is probably the one issue that has the strongest bipartisan support – and the strongest bipartisan opposition.

From the documentary “America’s Surveillance State”..“Since the historic events of 9/11 realigned the US approach to homeland security, a $60 billion a year industry has come to be. 70% of that, around $42 billion annually, goes to private contractors. That spells an awful lot of private, fiscally-driven interests in maintaining this costly approach to intelligence gathering and analysis, which in turn means there is $42 billion dollars of corporate motivation to be listening in on phone calls and reading emails regardless of whether there is any actual safety-oriented purpose for doing so.”

learn to love Big Brother, he loves watching over you.

I’ve flown quite a bit in the past few years and I really don’t have much negative to say. I got from Point A to Point B in much less time, mostly in days than any other means of transportation, my planes were never hijacked or blown up or flown into buildings, and I finally got to Vienna after wanting to get there for a long time which would have been impossible because my wife gets seasick. Compared to driving cross country it was far cheaper.There were some glitches to be sure but I’m pretty happy to have the chance to fly to where I’m going.

Passing for naut.

my wife is TSA @ BDL; if she brushes up against you, she can tell you what you’ve got in your pocket. can’t help it. she takes her job seriously. unfortunately, others do not.

Give everyone a gun. Nobody move & nobody gets hurt.

TSA is hit and miss. The overweight ex-cops at Portland OR are outright rude and seem to like to “rough up” the passengers. Most other places, however, they are OK to actually nice.

My wife and I are TSA-prechecked. so we can go to the fast lane. I have an artificial knee and set off the metal detector. How TSA handles this varies from airport to airport. Little old Islip, NY asks if you have any metal in your body – if you do, they give you a red card and instead of running your through a metal detector, they put you through the “sniffing machine.” The most sensible process I’ve seen yet.

But can we trust those who make the security checks? I have my suspicions.

Very loose definition of helping…..

Well, since we have what’s frequently called “security theater”, we might as well at least have the entertainment, too.

@All those going on about effective airport security

The government doing anything intelligently, efficiently, and effectively is like sightings of Sasquatch: plenty of rumors, but no one can definitively prove it. And the cries of airport security being a joke are hardly new. Experts and those with some common sense have known the new measures were a costly, time-consuming joke that just didn’t work since they first began.

the freedoms I gave up are: being able to visit with your loved ones until the flight is ready to go, right there in the boarding area; being able to pack what I need in whatever size bottle I want; being able to look out an airport window to watch the planes arrive and depart. I’m sure there are more. I detest flying in this day and age. Baggage fees, don’t put your luggage down or a terrorist will slip a bomb into it, etc., etc.

Douglas Haire

I wouldn’t know, I haven’t had occasion to fly since before Reagan scabbed the Air Traffic Controller’s Union. Having lived through McCarthyism, I may be on the no fly list right now and don’t know it.

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ChukLitl

You are aware that decompression through one bullet hole can expel as many as four passengers and their seats? (Hawaii Air Lines)

If they limited it to terrorists, it would be fine. They use their powers for other things. They want to search without arrest, and stop you for no reason. They will force you to comform.

I’ve been a long time fan of Wiley’s humor, but this cartoon and some of the comments that have been made highlight a problem with the system as well as the fickle public. If security is increased, people complain about inconvenience and a loss of privacy. When security incidents occur, people complain that TSA or DHS haven’t done enough to increase security. I have sympathy for TSA Officers and leadership. They’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t!

The illusion of security is that there is none.