Yet another reason to stay home

[ltmurnau]

BC Ferries to screen passengers

This is bloody ridiculous. What are they going to screen passengers for? Will I have to leave my nail clippers at home when I want to visit my dad on Pender Island?

Even in the crazy days after 9/11, when the commuter ferries from Bainbridge and Vashon Island to Seattle had an actual armed escort of Coast Guard cutters, Washington State Ferries never did this.

Ordinarily I'd suspect it's just a plot to keep people in the terminal a bit longer, so they can watch the giant TV and buy the overpriced coffee and trinkets. But this is just one for Stupid Security.

Comments

[espressoman.livejournal.com]

I am not so sure -- 9/11 was, like, 6 years ago...
and planes have been flying in and out of the Inner Harbor
and Coal Harbor, Vancouver non-stop since several days
after 9/11 -- and there have been few, if any, security threats
or alerts since then...

Like our draconian security certificates which, thankfully, had
a sunset clause... were NEVER used...
(apart from that Toronto round-up which is still unsettled...)

Can you imagine living in a country where you can be arrested
for "thinking" about doing something... even joking about it.
Yea - I know... you cannot make BOMB jokes on airplanes..
(I actually overheard a Doofus on an Air Canada connector making
a joke about a BOMB -- the flight attendant said: "I DID NOT HEAR
WHAT YOU JUST SAID!" )and you cannot RAZZ security officers or
border guards at border crossings - they simply have no sense of
humor.

My point being -- A just society is one that locks people up
AFTER they do stuff... not before.