I know there has for years been floating around in forwarded emails the death of common sense. If you haven't seen it you have been asleep.
But a couple stories on Drudge this morning reminded me of an incident repeated often as Peggy and I traveled the world a couple decades ago. This was pre 9-11. It wasn't pre terrorism however. Not in Europe. The Frankfurt Airport had been shot up and bombed a couple times by terrorists of some kind or another. The one I recall the most was some terrorists with automatic weapons opened fire in the terminal and killed several people.
Of course that resulted in a tougher screening. They asked a lot of questions. They were tough. But they profiled. If you looked swarthy and youthful you could expect a great deal of examination to get on a plane. If you looked middle aged, bald and married you were treated different. Peggy and I would walk thru the customs stations with the wave of a hand. We had those blue USA passports and didn't look the part. We were profiled.
Today the TSA which in my opinion was one of the dumber programs which came out of 9-11. That and Homeland Security had proven to be less about the homeland, security or Transportation. It is just stupid.
No common sense. No profiling of the type done long ago is done. So you have this kind of stupidity.
It's time to change things and re-inject common sense.
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