Jaunted

Peter Greenberg's blog has the details on the new, creeptastic measures:

USA Today obtained a memo from inside the TSA that shows that more passengers will be pulled out of line and subjected to additional searches as they wait to board planes. People will be chosen both at random and for displaying suspicious behavior, though the memo does not specify what constitutes 'suspicious.' The memo also gave no timeline for implementation of the stepped-up effort, which will supposedly target only 'riskier' flights. The TSA says that the program was not created in response to any specific threat, but simply makes security less predictable to potential terrorists who may be monitoring airports.

We're going to go ahead and guess then that flights to the three big New York airports (LGA, JFK and EWR) will feature into the "risky" category. It may be time to start calling for car service to the airport more than a few hours in advance of your flight, if you have any such inkling that your flight is "risky," or if you are simply in the mood to act suspiciously. Continuing on this path, there may come a day in the far, far future (hopefully not) when we all get the pleasure of flying in modified straitjackets. Yippee.

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