Car searches at Sea-Tac
Your car could be searched at Sea-Tac. From the P-I:
Of course, the Great Lotion Scare is not exactly a distant memory. That's why the Bush administration deserves condemnation for playing politics with terror so often.
That being said, the problem with making fun of every single threat is that someday, we are likely to suffer a bad terrorist attack again. Determined, capable terrorists could still do us harm. We want and need our many dedicated and skilled law enforcement officers to do their jobs, as it seems clear those folks are most likely to actually save us from an attack. Torture and rendition may be great fun for the wankosphere, but the border agent or deputy who notices something is probably a more valuable asset.
As pathetically incompetent as the plots in Britain appear, and as silly as the cable news networks are acting, sensible people support reasonable precautions.
And since we don't know what we don't know, we have to trust that the authorities are acting in good faith.
Leave for the airport early, drink some fluids and leave the lotion at home. We realize the lack of lotion may be problematic for conservative bloggers, but we all have to make sacrifices.
At SeaTac, police have set up cones to divert cars to be searched, Garson said. U.S. Air Marshals and police are picking the vehicles after brief visual inspections, she said.The difficulty in ascertaining the wisdom of this move by authorities is that we don't know what we don't know. We'd probably all like to think that this is not simply an over-reaction to events in Britain, and that our intelligence agencies and law enforcement officials truly believe this is necessary.
The vehicles are then directed to the areas set off by cones so as not to interfere with traffic.
Garson said if there are delays, they are due more to the heavy volume of traffic than the inspections. The random searches are being done at peak times in the mornings and evenings when most travel is done in and out of the airport.
Of course, the Great Lotion Scare is not exactly a distant memory. That's why the Bush administration deserves condemnation for playing politics with terror so often.
That being said, the problem with making fun of every single threat is that someday, we are likely to suffer a bad terrorist attack again. Determined, capable terrorists could still do us harm. We want and need our many dedicated and skilled law enforcement officers to do their jobs, as it seems clear those folks are most likely to actually save us from an attack. Torture and rendition may be great fun for the wankosphere, but the border agent or deputy who notices something is probably a more valuable asset.
As pathetically incompetent as the plots in Britain appear, and as silly as the cable news networks are acting, sensible people support reasonable precautions.
And since we don't know what we don't know, we have to trust that the authorities are acting in good faith.
Leave for the airport early, drink some fluids and leave the lotion at home. We realize the lack of lotion may be problematic for conservative bloggers, but we all have to make sacrifices.
