Catty appears to have understood my point. It's possible to put a nuke on a cargo ship, but we still let cargo ships dock in Manhattan and Montréal. It's possible to strap some blocks of C4 and a detonator to your chest and blow yourself to bits at the first security checkpoint you reach (as has been illustrated far too many times in the Middle East), but we still let people who wear trenchcoats walk up to the various Parliament and Congress buildings in the world. And those possibilities (and driving a truck up to the building, as happened in Oklahoma City) are far less obvious than an aircraft is.
So why are flyers being discriminated against, especially in what are supposedly "free" countries?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
So why are flyers being discriminated against, especially in what are supposedly "free" countries?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012