Terror is cheap in the land of the scared
Have you heard about the JFK terminal evacuation that happened recently? Remember the evacuation in Newark some time ago? Finally, what about some idiot trying to blow up his reproductive organs on a plane around Christmas?
Now, close your eyes, let your emotions go for a second, and think about it… Some guy opening a wrong door caused hours of delays?! Another guy going the wrong way through a doorway caused delays and flight cancellations that lasted for days?! How much money did both of these incidents cost the airlines? Who the heck needs bombs and explosives when all one needs to do is touch a wrong freaking door to set off an idiotic chain reaction that aggravates thousands of people, costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and makes us all look like a bunch of chicken running away from a scarecrow? The proverbial Osama bin Laden would be proud.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not calling anybody a “terrorist” here - but the results of these people’s actions are worse than what some actual terrorists are able to produce. Return on investment is waaaay better, even if incidental. And we are talking about some dude walking and opening doors, not some evil-minded moron stuffing his shoes with crude explosives.
But the question that bothers me the most is: How come something that small is enough to make us run for the hills nowadays? How the hell did we become the land of the scared? (I’m equating “running for the hills” with “easily allowing our way of life to be disrupted”).
