Security through obfuscatory 

This blog entry about the asinine new security measures that airline travelers are now being subjected to expresses my feelings on the issues way better then I ever could:

This attitude–the idea that it’s more important to look like we’re addressing a problem than to actually address it–drives me crazy. Seeing these security measures everywhere doesn’t make me feel safer, it makes me feel irritated that I have to spend so much of every day going through the motions in order to mollify the general population. I’m sure they didn’t catch these guys in Britain because one of them was trying to sneak baby formula onto a plane–they caught him through the standard channels of surveillance and investigation that are both more effective and less obtrusive than these constant checkpoints and useless regulations.