The Airport Security Follies – Jet Lagged – Air Travel – Opinion – New York Times Blog:
It began with pat-downs and the senseless confiscation of pointy objects. Then came the mandatory shoe removal, followed in the summer of 2006 by the prohibition of liquids and gels.
We can only imagine what is next. To understand what makes these measures so absurd, we first need to revisit the morning of September 11th, and grasp exactly what it was the 19 hijackers so easily took advantage of. Conventional wisdom says the terrorists exploited a weakness in airport security by smuggling aboard box-cutters. What they actually exploited was a weakness in our mindset — a set of presumptions based on the decades-long track record of hijackings.
Unter anderem die Frage, warum diese vielen gefährlichen Flüssigkeiten alle zusammen in eine Plastiktonne geschmissen werden.
