{"id":2277,"date":"2009-12-31T20:22:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T00:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2009-12-31T20:22:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T00:22:24","slug":"we-put-the-jerk-in-knee-jerk-with-the-way-we-respond-to-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/31\/we-put-the-jerk-in-knee-jerk-with-the-way-we-respond-to-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We put the jerk in knee-jerk with the way we respond to threats&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Kelley sent me a link to this <a href=\"http:\/\/trueslant.com\/milesobrien\/2009\/12\/30\/captain-underpants-and-the-illusion-of-security\/\" target=\"_blank\">Miles O&#8217;Brien article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[. . .] my family and I will face long lines, lots of questions, pat down searches and an hour of lockdown time in our seats before landing. It is as if my ruler-brandishing first-grade teacher Sister Grace took over Delta Air Lines. \u201cBooks away &mdash; feet on the floor &mdash; hands on your desk &mdash; eyes straight ahead . . . \u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is brilliant thinking like the new seat arrest rule that should tell you a lot about our ill-conceived approach to thwarting terrorists who continue to find plane loads full of innocent Americans to be tempting targets. I don\u2019t suppose future terrorists might try to light some portion of their clothing 61 minutes before landing do you?<\/p>\n<p>What about the baby who needs a bottle or a passy on descent and is crying his lungs out?  God help him, his mother and the rest of us . . .<\/p>\n<p>We put the jerk in knee-jerk with the way we respond to threats.<\/p>\n<p>Our Homeland Security Czarina Janet Napolitano tried to spin the whole thing into a triumph of our security apparatus. At least she didn\u2019t get a \u201cNappy, you\u2019re doin\u2019 a heckuva a job!\u201d from our Commander-in-Chief<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Kelley sent me a link to this Miles O&#8217;Brien article: [. . .] my family and I will face long lines, lots of questions, pat down searches and an hour of lockdown time in our seats before landing. It is as if my ruler-brandishing first-grade teacher Sister Grace took over Delta Air Lines. \u201cBooks [&hellip;]<\/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":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[123,201,257,451],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-usa","tag-aircraft","tag-securitytheatre","tag-terrorism","tag-tsa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-AJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}