Okay, this is a hopeful message, after a flurry on rather sad ones. It appears that protest against Transport Canada's "oversight" in not including books, newspapers and magazines among the things permitted to be carried into airplane cabins on flights from Canada to the US has been successful. It only took about 24 hours of blog and newspaper comment (the National Post had the story first in a blog, and The Globe and Mail picked it up yesterday in print) about a Facebook group protesting the ban that things were changed. (See Stop Dumbing Down: Allow Books on Airplanes begun by YHS.)
Who knows how long people--including one woman who said her kids' colouring books were taken--would be deprived of intelligent entertainment on flights otherwise? Many thanks are due to those to expressed their outrage. Let's hope it also bumped up awareness of the importance of reading to ordinary people among those who make rules.
Now let's see what we can do about other stupid things. Has anyone read or heard just what kind of imaging will be used in those full body scanners? If it's x-ray technology, we may be letting ourselves open for unnecessary exposure to dangerous radiation. And doesn't that announcement of an early arrival of 44 scanners for eight airports in Canada indicate that the Harper government have them on order all ready? What else does Steve and his buddies have waiting in the wings?
Most importantly, let us consider WHY there is terrorism, and act accordingly.
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