18 April 2013 - security theater 1

Maybe security theater would be worthwhile if it rose to the level of actual theater, but it never achieves suspension of disbelief. Ah, look, widely separated SWAT team members wading through the dense crowd with assault rifles, weapons that should never be fired in a crowd, that’s very... unconvincing. Those guns had better be unloaded, what if there’s a crazy in the station?