{"id":337,"date":"2006-09-01T16:49:03","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T13:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/09\/01\/stupid-security\/"},"modified":"2006-09-01T16:49:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T13:49:03","slug":"stupid-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/01\/stupid-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do we really gain something by patting down a two-year-old?  Are we somehow safer?  Are we morally superior because we equally pat down the 25-year-old Muslim male and the 2-year-old girl?  Is the goal security or is it to demonstrate that we are &#8220;fair to all&#8221;?  I think that if we&#8217;re going to win the &#8220;war on terror&#8221; we have to define who the enemy is.  Hint: it&#8217;s not my two-year-old daughter.  Another hint: Almost all acts of terror in the last 3 decades have been perpetuated by Muslim men, aged 18-35.  I believe that it is inconvenient for many innocent Muslims to face heightened security, but I don&#8217;t think it lessens their inconvenience to pat my two-year-old down.  Muslim men may not like this &#8220;profiling,&#8221; but they should understand it.  If not, they are stupid.  As it is, we can claim that title.<\/p>\n<p>Said more eloquently:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/forms\/printThis.html?id=110008819\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> editorial (Aug 19):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A return to any kind of normalcy in travel is going to require that airport security do a better job of separating high-risk passengers from unlikely threats. However, the fact that we may have come within a whisker of losing 3,000 lives over the Atlantic still isn&#8217;t preventing political correctness from getting in the way of smarter security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielpipes.org\/article\/3890\">Daniel Pipes<\/a> (Aug 22)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Noting the limited impact that losing 3,000 lives had in 2001 and building on my &#8220;education by murder&#8221; hypothesis \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that people wake up to the problem of radical Islam only when blood is flowing in the streets \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I predict that effective profiling will only come into effect when many more Western lives, say 100,000, have been lost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image348\" alt=\"katie_search_tb083106605.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/katie_search_tb083106605.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do we really gain something by patting down a two-year-old? Are we somehow safer? Are we morally superior because we equally pat down the 25-year-old Muslim male and the 2-year-old girl? Is the goal security or is it to demonstrate that we are &#8220;fair to all&#8221;? I think that if we&#8217;re going to win the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/01\/stupid-security\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}