{"id":5888,"date":"2012-05-15T14:16:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T14:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5888"},"modified":"2012-05-15T14:16:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T14:16:18","slug":"the-proper-reaction-to-screening-horror-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5888","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The proper reaction to screening horror stories isn\u2019t to subject only \u201cthose people\u201d to it; it\u2019s to subject no one to it. (Can anyone even explain what hypothetical terrorist plot could successfully evade normal security, but would be discovered during secondary screening?) Invasive TSA screening is nothing more than security theater. It doesn\u2019t make us safer, and it\u2019s not worth the cost. Even more strongly, security isn\u2019t our society\u2019s only value. Do we really want the full power of government to act out our stereotypes and prejudices? Have we Americans ever done something like this and not been ashamed later? This is what we have a Constitution for: to help us live up to our values and not down to our fears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bruceschneier\/2012\/05\/09\/the-trouble-with-airport-profiling\/\">The Trouble with Airport Profiling<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proper reaction to screening horror stories isn\u2019t to subject only \u201cthose people\u201d to it; it\u2019s to subject no one to it. (Can anyone even explain what hypothetical terrorist plot could successfully evade normal security, but would be discovered during secondary screening?) Invasive TSA screening is nothing more than security theater. It doesn\u2019t make us <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5888\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}