the high price of security
forgetting for a moment the question of all the new airline security measures that are supposed to make us safer, but target children and let fish slip through…
the old news is that brazil decided to give the united states a taste of it’s own prescription – and started fingerprinting and photographing americans on entry to the country.
the new news – an american airlines pilot gave the brazilian federal police the finger, and ended up with a $12,000+ fine.
matheus baraldi magnani (federal prosecutor) international herald tribuneSince this was a minor crime I proposed that he be fined 36,000 reals, which will later be donated to a home for the elderly,
they’re trying to make a point, and we (americans) seem to be just too thick to get it. we’re spending $380 million (or more) a year to do this fingerprint-and-photo deal at the border, and it’s going to net us nothing but animosity.