I started thinking about the similarities between airport security and hostage situations while I was hanging around the Seattle airport last month. As I watched people shuffling sock-footed through the metal detector and standing helplessly by as security rifled through their luggage, the concept for this Venn diagram was born. After all, there is a great deal of power in controlling food and water, freedom of movement and the inherent humiliation with having to disrobe en masse.
This one is hilarious, and so apt!
And you think it’s bad here, you should go through Security at El Al Airlines in Tel Aviv. TSA knows you still have a few rights…you can always turn around and leave. Once you’re in Ben Gurion Int’l Airport, you’re not going anywhere that’s not on your original itinerary. Except maybe a windowless room that no one knows about…so you best declare those liquids.
Yep. That’s about right. And are we any safer, really?