{"id":282,"date":"2004-01-21T00:16:46","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T08:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/suspected-terrorist\/"},"modified":"2004-01-21T00:16:46","modified_gmt":"2004-01-21T08:16:46","slug":"suspected-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/suspected-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Terrorist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just ran across <a href=\"http:\/\/robertsfamily.typepad.com\/the_mommy_blog\/2003\/12\/the_friendly_sk.html\">this<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\">BoingBoing<\/a>. Mark, one of the editors, had <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2004_01_01_archive.html#107379846683537418\">his own run-in<\/a> with some TSA employees. We had a similar incident of our own on our way back from Maui this past summer. <\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, I can understand this from the point of view that I suppose it&#8217;s possible that some terrorists out there who wouldn&#8217;t be above using children to forward their cause.  However, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/\">Bruce Schneier<\/a> often points out, security is about trade-offs. Currently, I don&#8217;t believe the government and, more specifically, the TSA is making the correct ones. I thought the whole point of the government taking over airline security was to raise the quality of the screeners\/security personnel. Judging from the automaton-like behavior of those mentioned in these stories, I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve improved. There&#8217;s got to be a better way to handle families with small children, especially, mothers travelling alone with multiple children.<\/p>\n<p>As for the childless travellers who give those of us with small kids attitude, I take great delight in pointing my children directly at that person during flight and making their life as much of a living hell as possible. The majority of people are civil and even helpful, but I&#8217;ve got no sympathy for impatient, &#8220;holier-than-thou&#8221;, childless assholes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just ran across this via BoingBoing. Mark, one of the editors, had his own run-in with some TSA employees. We had a similar incident of our own on our way back from Maui this past summer. On the one hand, I can understand this from the point of view that I suppose it&#8217;s possible <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/suspected-terrorist\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-2-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-4y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}