Last [Wednesday] night, I heard Keith Olbermann interview Isaac Yeffet, former head of security for El Al, the Israeli state-owned airline, who scoffed at the TSA, his voice dripping with disdain as he described the porno-scanners and the body searches as worse than useless. Scanners? No, Yeffet has a better idea:
“We don‘t need to spend one dollar to buy body scanners. Who you are searching.”
“OLBERMANN: Yes.
“YEFFET: — only suspicious passengers. We interview every passenger.”
To a proposal redolent of every totalitarian state that ever existed, Olbermann, the great “progressive,” can only muster:
“Explain that. Because it seems too simple when we‘ve had ten years of taking our shoes off and standing in line for an hour. Why does it work? And what does the interview consist of? And who does it?”
Could someone please explain to Comrade Olbermann why the prospect of every airline passenger being interrogated by some nosey jerk in a blue uniform about where one is going and why one is going there is intolerable to a free people?
Thanks to Saleema, who supplied the headline.
