Comments on: More Nonsense on the Security Front http://www.onlinetravelreview.com/2006/09/15/more-nonsense-on-the-security-front/ Airline News and Commentary Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:24:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: iahphx http://www.onlinetravelreview.com/2006/09/15/more-nonsense-on-the-security-front/#comment-6181 iahphx Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:48:52 +0000 http://boardingarea.com/blogs/onlinetravelreview/2006/09/15/more-nonsense-on-the-security-front/#comment-6181 I agree with Pilot until the end when -- in perhaps a nod to Salon's likely readership -- he suggests the stupid new rules are some sort of political conspiracy. To be blunt, stupidity knows no political party. The dumb rules remain in place because it's easier to maintain the status quo, and there is not a natural constituency for logical carry-on rules. Just look at the media silence. I think we're pretty much alone on this one, and we'll have to wait for the bureacracy to get around to reforming the rules. They will do it, albeit not as soon as we'd like. I agree with Pilot until the end when — in perhaps a nod to Salon’s likely readership — he suggests the stupid new rules are some sort of political conspiracy.

To be blunt, stupidity knows no political party. The dumb rules remain in place because it’s easier to maintain the status quo, and there is not a natural constituency for logical carry-on rules. Just look at the media silence. I think we’re pretty much alone on this one, and we’ll have to wait for the bureacracy to get around to reforming the rules. They will do it, albeit not as soon as we’d like.

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