{"id":58463,"date":"2016-04-25T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58463"},"modified":"2016-04-21T14:37:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T19:37:53","slug":"cause-and-effect-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58463","title":{"rendered":"Cause And Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">A longtime friend of this blog writes re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/community-voices\/2016\/04\/long-airport-security-lines-are-symptom-congress-budget-cutting-mantra\">Keith Ellison&#8217;s recent op-ed in the\u00a0<em>MinnPost<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Long airport-security lines are a symptom of Congress&#8217; budget-cutting mantra&#8221; [1]<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hmm. Doesn&#8217;t look right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Long airport-security lines are a symptom of Arabs hijacking aircraft and blowing them up&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There. Fixed.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Well, mostly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Terrorist attack led to concern for security, which led to government seeing a new opportunity for graft, which led to a permanent bureaucracy which does little to secure air travel but very much does want to get paid, and paid well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There. \u00a0Now we&#8217;re all ship-shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime friend of this blog writes re Keith Ellison&#8217;s recent op-ed in the\u00a0MinnPost: &#8220;Long airport-security lines are a symptom of Congress&#8217; budget-cutting mantra&#8221; [1] Hmm. Doesn&#8217;t look right. &#8220;Long airport-security lines are a symptom of Arabs hijacking aircraft and blowing them up&#8221; There. Fixed. Well, mostly. Terrorist attack led to concern for security, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58464,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58463\/revisions\/58464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}