9/11 still haunts me

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I was thiniking about this last night along the lines of...

Since that day, how have things changed for our everyday life?   Do the changes made that impact our daily lives result in positive or negative?

For me, being someone who travels quite often, it's pretty evident, at least at airports.  I remember the days of being able to enter an airport and go to the gate where one of my kids was arriving.   I also remember being able to take a bottle of water from outside a terminal and on to an airplane.

There's no reason this shouldn't be the case today. The security theatre they put in is just that.

I had a micro-leatherman keychain confiscated before my last flight. It wasn't even on me, it was in a carry-on bag and had been there since before I set off to foreign lands- meaning it had been through multiple security gates, scanners, searches, blah blah blah. This thing technically has a built in knife and scissors, that are about 1" long, among other tools. It's been on my keychain for ohhhh... 23 or 24 years. This thing has been in my pocket on numerous flights.. probably at least 20 of them, without issue.

Absolutely retarded. Nobody is taking down a plane with a keychain. Meanwhile, I had a 12' extension cord in my carry-on for my laptop - could easily strangle multiple people with that thing- but hey perfectly okay! The keychain had them searching the entirety of my carry-on bags and they had absolutely no issue with the extension cord.

The guy right behind me got pulled by security as well. They searched his bag from some alleged contraband which turned out to be pieces of some baby toy (he had kids with him) that were in his bag. Yep! Way to keep the skies safe!

Oh yeah, I once had a DHS employee refuse me at the gate and call the police on me claiming I had given her a fake ID. The "fake ID" I'd allegedly given her was a bonafide 100% real state issued drivers license. 6 police officers showed up, ran my ID, told them it was real, then stood around like larry, curly, and moe trying to figure out what they could arrest me for, since the DHS bitch's claims were 100% false. Needless to say, I was released and used the exact same ID to go through the line a second time without issue and got on the plane. I did report her to DHS who took up the complaint but made no disciplinary action. Surprise, surprise.

The fish rots from the head.