{"id":572,"date":"2004-01-16T14:58:18","date_gmt":"2004-01-16T19:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/the-high-price-of-security\/"},"modified":"2004-01-16T14:58:18","modified_gmt":"2004-01-16T19:58:18","slug":"the-high-price-of-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/the-high-price-of-security\/","title":{"rendered":"the high price of security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>forgetting for a moment the question of all the new airline security measures that are supposed to make us safer,  but <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/tsa_saved_me_from_the_children.html\">target children<\/a> and let <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/save_me_from_the_fish.html\">fish<\/a> slip through&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>the old news is that brazil decided to give the united states a taste of it&#8217;s own prescription &#8211; and started fingerprinting and photographing americans on entry to the country.<\/p>\n<p>the new news &#8211; an american airlines pilot gave the brazilian federal police <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/brazil\/story\/0, 12462,1124264,00.html\">the finger<\/a>, and ended up with a <a href=\"http:\/\/wireservice.wired.com\/wired\/story.asp?section=Breaking&amp;storyId=814391&amp;tw=wn_wire_story\" class=\"broken_link\">$12,000+ fine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\">matheus baraldi magnani (federal prosecutor) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/125215.html\" class=\"broken_link\">international herald tribune<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Since 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,\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>they&#8217;re trying to make a point, and we (americans) seem to be just too thick to get it.  we&#8217;re spending $380 million (or more) a year to do this fingerprint-and-photo deal at the border, and it&#8217;s going to net us nothing but animosity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; the old news is that brazil decided to give the united states a taste of it&#8217;s own prescription &#8211; and started fingerprinting and photographing americans on entry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}