Your probability of getting hit by lightning is
greater than getting hit by a terrorist. Imagine that. But doomsday believers always outnumber the skeptics.
Meanwhile, the hyper terrorist paranoia fed by the Bush administration has taken on a life of its own. It's a destructive absurdity. Just last week a team of buffons at the TSA had insisted that a woman must remove her jewelry on her nipples [with a pair of pliers] if she wanted to get through the screening process and make her flight. Other outrageousness included a woman having to taste her own bottled milk for her baby; denied boarding for another couple because their baby's name was on the TSA's "no fly" list. One shoe bomber: But millions of travellers are still having to take off their shoes, including 12 year olds, all across the USA. Anybody with a "one-way" ticket in USA is automatically suspect and herded into "secondary inspection." Plastic cutlery on all flights into USA . . . Pax data and flight itinerary, including credit card info of purchased tickets is all having to be forked over to the "Dept of Homeland Security" for all pax arriving in USA. Foreign visitors will soon have prints of all ten of their fingers [instead of only 2] cached in Big Brother's computer forever, including mug shots.
