m.zcmmz!! xckhdva!! fl;dkfZ!! 39we.zsd!!Sorry, I had to bang my forehead on the keyboard for a bit just to make sure I was connected to "reality".
Some five year old kid had security at Seattle running around with their hands over their heads because his name was the same as some criminal on a watch list or some crap like that. The only thing they didn't do was body cavity search the kid and his mom. Must not have been part of the procedure. They even re-searched his mom after she gave him a hug during the process! Where do they go to find the kind of people that can't think for themselves? Who writes these rules in such an authoritarian fashion? Don't they trust anyone to judge simple reality? That guy probably got put on the watch list when the kids was two years old, or maybe even before he was born! We can do better than this. But in watching the news it seems we never learn. The simplest change to some DOHS software to a fix a problem (such as comparing the criminals approximate age to this kid's) seems to require a note from God.
I see this kind of thinking supplanting reason and logic more and more. It's all throughout the legal system or people like OJ wouldn't get out of a murder rap, and people who aren't guilty could actually use modern DNA analysis to prove their innocence and get out. HMOs are another good example.
I'd sure like to know how much time and energy is wasted in our economy to support this kind of brain-dead Nazi procedural crap instead of growing the economy. Sometimes it isn't worth the effort even if you are wrong occasionally.
Not only that, the mother has to file paperwork to get an exception for her kid so it doesn't happen again! WTF?! Why can't they do it right then and there with obvious cases like this? Oh well. The Soviets used bread lines to keep the masses in check, I guess the Western version is unnecessary paperwork.
OK, I'm feeling better now. Until next time . . . .