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Double Standards in Security Hassles

Bob Sullivan writes in The Red Tape Chronicles:

It’s privacy week at MSNBC.com. We’ve tried to examine that very complex topic from many angles in the hopes of beginning a wider dialog on the subject. We only lightly touched on privacy’s twin subject -- the yin of privacy’s yang – security. A deeper look at that subject will come in the coming weeks and months.

Suffice to say that we have all been asked to surrender some of our privacy with the promise of increasing our level of security.

But have we succeeded in making ourselves safer? Last week’s tragic death of Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle in a New York City airplane crash raises this issue. Are all Americans being asked to make the same sacrifices in the name of security? Lidle’s ill-fated flight suggests a disturbing answer. To get there, we must ask this obvious question: How could someone fly a plane into a New York City high-rise without anyone knowing that an aircraft was there?

posted by Fergie @ 10/17/2006 11:19:00 AM