{"id":1308,"date":"2006-08-14T21:10:27","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T21:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2006-08-14T21:10:27","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T21:10:27","slug":"fear_in_a_bottl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1308","title":{"rendered":"Fear In A Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was watching news footage of the crowded airport terminals in the wake of last week&#8217;s terrorism <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/WORLD\/europe\/08\/11\/terror.plot\/index.html\">freak-out<\/a>, I cringed at the thought of getting through airport security in this even braver, newer world where a bottle of hair gel is a potential explosive.&nbsp; I can only imagine the kind of scrutiny that the water bag for my humidifier would attract.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>These new restrictions are incredibly silly, don&#8217;t you think?&nbsp; Every new measure is a response to yesterday&#8217;s threat.&nbsp; After 9\/11. nail clippers and scissors were verboten.&nbsp; After Richard Reed, we had to take off our shoes.&nbsp; Now, a juice box is this year&#8217;s box cutter.&nbsp; As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/terrorism_secur.html\">Bruce Schneier notes<\/a>, we spend billions of dollars creating the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/mld\/kentucky\/news\/nation\/15247106.htm\">illusion of security<\/a> for the nation&#8217;s air travelers.&nbsp; The grim reality is that by the time a reasonably competent team of terrorists arrives at the airport, it&#8217;s probably too late to stop them.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>When it comes to stopping acts of terrorism, we all want the government to Do Something.&nbsp; We want to watch someone go through the motions of looking under the bed for monsters.&nbsp; But it&#8217;s going to take more than empty gestures to keep us safe.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was watching news footage of the crowded airport terminals in the wake of last week&#8217;s terrorism freak-out, I cringed at the thought of getting through airport security in this even braver, newer world where a bottle of hair gel is a potential explosive.&nbsp; I can only imagine the kind of scrutiny that the <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1308' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-l6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}