Our Unfounded Obsession With Safety Is Costing Us Our Freedom
11th March 2016
As you inch your way through security at the airport, you’ll be relieved of your penknife and terrifying tube of Pepsodent. Your unopened can of Coke will, of course, be thrown in the trash, along with any snow globes, and off go your shoes.
When at last you’re reshod and passing the duty-free shop, you can buy a well-deserved bottle of Scotch .?.?. which you can then bring on board, crack against the cabin wall and use as you would a machete.
So why all the security kabuki from the TSA?
That’s just one of the questions posed by Tracey Brown and Michael Hanlon in their new book, “Playing by the Rules: How Our Obsession with Safety Is Putting Us All at Risk.”