{"id":112841,"date":"2009-12-29T23:20:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T04:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=8624"},"modified":"2009-12-29T23:20:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T04:20:40","slug":"christmas-underwear-bomber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/112841","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Underwear Bomber"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve wanted to write an article after I heard the case of the <\/a>Christmas Underwear Bomber<\/a><\/strong> and what the US and Canadian governments decided to do in the name of “enhancing our safety”. If I had written that article, it would have been a mostly emotionally one where I would have questioned how a “failed terror attempt” managed to successfully disrupt our lives. And why that kind of scenario where we, the public, always loose is just not acceptable.<\/p>\n

Fortunately I waited patiently and saved myself some a few hours in writing time as security expert Bruce Schneier<\/a><\/strong> has finally spoken (was more insightfully and eloquently than I can) to shine some light and shared his insights. Remember, I don’t blindly trust anyone, including Bruce. But so far, he speaks with the most wisdom that government officials sadly lack.<\/p>\n

Bruce Schneier<\/a>’s MSNBC interview on The Rachel Maddow Show<\/a><\/strong> (starting at 2:45)<\/a><\/p>\n

Bruce’s email interview with <\/a>The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And an article “Is aviation security mostly for show?” at CNN<\/a> written by Bruce. Very insightful and intelligent.<\/p>\n

[HT Bruce Schneier<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n

Posted in Canada, insightful, Law, people, politics, security, united states, Video, World \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve wanted to write an article after I heard the case of the Christmas Underwear Bomber and what the US and Canadian governments decided to do in the name of “enhancing our safety”. If I had written that article, it would have been a mostly emotionally one where I would have questioned how a “failed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}