Feel Safer?
Published by Ninth Stage January 10th, 2008 in Life as we know it, Only Ones Professional Enough, What the ... ?.A five year old child was refused boarding as a “national security risk” because his name is similar to one on the feared “no-fly list.”
A five-year-old boy was taken into custody and thoroughly searched at Sea-Tac because his name is similar to a possible terrorist alias. As the Consumerist reports, “When his mother went to pick him up and hug him and comfort him during the proceedings, she was told not to touch him because he was a national security risk.
As Bruce Schneier says, “[F]ollowing procedure is more important than common sense.”
Speaking as a former 5 year old boy, I’d have been absolutely thrilled to be thought of as a national security risk for a few minutes. I’d have told all my friends.
Airport security is such a farce; it is for appearances only.
But it is only one example of modern automated processes that do not allow individual judgement.
The world is going to hell in a handbasket!