{"id":2919,"date":"2002-09-04T15:43:04","date_gmt":"2002-09-04T20:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2002-09-04T15:43:04","modified_gmt":"2002-09-04T20:43:04","slug":"feeling_safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/04\/feeling_safer.html","title":{"rendered":"Feeling safer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters managed to smuggle knives onto <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/ap\/20020904\/ap_wo_en_po\/us_airlines_smuggling_1\">fourteen airline flights<\/a> over Labor Day weekend without getting caught.  They also brought pepper spray through security checkpoints.  TV reporters used leadlined bags (with nothing in them) without getting called on it.<\/p>\n<p>But when Margie and I fly, we get zapped for every corkscrew and pair of sewing scissors we inadvertently have in the bag.<\/p>\n<p>Figures.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bears-cave.com\/archive\/2002_09.php#1603\">Doyce <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billbarol.com\/blog\/000582.html#000582\">Blather <\/a>both express their disgust much more humorously than I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters managed to smuggle knives onto fourteen airline flights over Labor Day weekend without getting caught. They also brought pepper spray through security checkpoints. TV reporters used leadlined bags (with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":900,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/03\/a_lottery_we_al.html","url_meta":{"origin":2919,"position":0},"title":"A lottery we all would enjoy","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 3-Nov-01 8:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"InstaPundit, via readers Scott Stafford and Don MacGregor, proposes a fun \"game\" to enhance airline security. The government gives batons [smallish, coded, metal object in a variety of different shapes]...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Homeland Security&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1989,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/29\/more_airport_se.html","url_meta":{"origin":2919,"position":1},"title":"More airport security humor","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 29-Mar-02 10:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"From SatireWire: Washington, D.C. 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There have also been other stories --...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Homeland Security&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32730,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/05\/security-theater-of-the-surreal.html","url_meta":{"origin":2919,"position":3},"title":"Security Theater of the Surreal","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Mar-13 2:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On the one hand, I applaud the TSA for actually doing something relatively sane here. \u00a0People will be able to carry aboard (once again) small pocket knives (2.36\" blade length), as well as lacrosse sticks, ski poles, and small, souvenir baseball bats.Which makes sense, because, really, nobody is going to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7772,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/16\/could_it_be_san.html","url_meta":{"origin":2919,"position":4},"title":"Could it be &#8230; sanity?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 16-Aug-05 7:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"The TSA is proposing loosening restrictions on pocket knives on planes. Have the terrorists won? The federal agency in charge of aviation security is considering major changes in how it...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Homeland Security&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7958,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/12\/cut_like_a_knif.html","url_meta":{"origin":2919,"position":5},"title":"Cut like a knife","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Jul-05 2:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting article on the near-demise of the Swiss Army Knife market since 9\/11\/01 and the increase of airline security world-round. 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