Isn’t This a Bit Much?
- February 6th 2008
- From the Editor
So when Jason over at happyscrappy wrote about being denied his beer, I began to be concerned with the sanity of the United States and our Homeland Security administration. Not that I wasn’t concerned about this venerable institution before (I mean really, hasn’t anyone read Orwell’s 1984?) but the bizzare fear of good old Czech beer was beyond my comprehension.
So as any good blogger will do, I commented on his blog. It was my first time there, having been turned onto it by the good guys over at The Daily Transit, which I read regularly. Great writing btw for anyone looking. Then, as any good blog owner is wont to do, Jason emails me a response to my comment. We got into this bizzare conversation about the phobias that TSA is imposing on poor innocent travelers. Somehow they’ve decided that we all need to be afraid of the following: full-sized shampoo bottles, shoes that lace up, non-white people, bottled water, coffee (but only when carried in cups) and now beer. As if the possibility of falling out of the sky somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles while trying to figure out how to simultaneously use my seat as a flotation device and put on an oxygen mask wasn’t enough to keep my feet on the ground.
Then he drops his ace in the hole. Apparently while on the flight back (after making him return his beer) they announced that anyone not from the US or Western Europe was going to be FINGERPRINTED!!!
Anyone else not ok with this new action of our government? What the bleep! I didn’t believe him, but oh yes, here it is in a small article on CNN.
Anyone else not believing this?
A couple of countries in South America are doing the same to Americans. A tit for tat situation. And though I’m sure I’ll feel a bit violated by the whole thing, I’m going to try to remember that this is what so many people have to face when they come to America…if they can even afford a visa.
I totally agree with you Theresa..can we call that a tooth for a tooth?