dear transit security goons
Before you make my upcoming flight to London miserable, please go read Yglesias and Bruce Schneier. Not because it will change anything. But because I'd like to see a tiny flicker of guilt in your eye as you tell me I'm not allowed to bring anything onto the plane besides a willingness to quietly sit still.
And speaking of the TSA, whatever happened to the alleged change in policy making shoe-removal optional? As far as I can tell, it's had absolutely no effect on screeners' insistence that you take off your shoes. I've tried every type of footwear I can think of, but it's never seems to make a difference. On the rare (and seemingly random) occasions when I'm allowed to go through the metal detector without pulling off my sneakers, all it buys me is a more thorough screening on the other side.
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The inconsistency on the shoe front is irritating. Once I was flying into National and the security guy expressed irritation with the fact that I was taking my shoes off because they (apparently) were clearly not the sort that could be shoe bombs.
on this subject, for once, i actually agreed with john tierney.
maybe if the TSA's new ways of protecting people didn't involve buying and selling their personal information and perpetuating inaccuracies about passengers...
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