Enhanced ‘Security’ Is a Daily Inconvenience

Last weekend I attended a George Carlin performance at the Universal Amphitheatre and a WTA tennis match at Staples Center. At both venues, there were long lines of people waiting to get through “security.” Everyone got their bags searched as if Osama bin Laden might have sent someone to bomb Serena Williams because her tennis outfit was not modest enough.

We suffer the inconvenience of this enhanced “security” daily, and one wonders if we are truly any safer for it. I am sure a determined terrorist could find a way to easily circumvent the metal detectors and minimum-wage screeners. If one of the goals of the terrorists is to instill fear, create chaos and cause us to change our way of life, they are succeeding mightily.

Ed Colman

Venice