Posted by thegulfblog.com in American ME Relations.
Tags: Milgram experiment, Transport Security Administration, TSA, US authorities
I do not want people to think that I enjoy bashing US authorities. That is far from the purpose of this blog and does not at all represent my personal views on Americans or their security establishment. Yet, from time to ever increasingly frequent time, they just beg for a few scathing words.
The latest example of idiocy is by US Transport Security Administration (TSA) employees at Philadelphia airport. Earlier this month security staff made a 4 year old disabled child on his way to Walt Disney World for a birthday treat remove his leg braces and stumble through the metal detectors by himself. Clearly, were his parents to have helped him through, this would have caused a serious security breach.
Need it be said, TSA spokespeople have since confirmed that such a situation ought never to have arisen. Ryan, the child in question, should have been escorted with his parents to a separate room where his leg braces could have been swabbed for explosive residue.
What sort of people are these TSA idiots at Philadelphia airport? Where is their sense of – excuse the hyperbole – humanity or just common sense? I really see direct parallels with the Milgram experiments. Give people an ounce of authority and they can turn, in this case without any real prompting, into cruel, mean-spirited and unfeeling automatons.
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Posted by thegulfblog.com in The Emirates.
Tags: A380, A380 picture, Airbus A380, Credit crunch, Dubai PR, Emirates, Emirates airlines
I’ve just arrived back in the Gulf thanks to Emirates Airlines. From London to Dubai I flew on one of their mammoth Airbus A380s. It’s really quite a plane and essentially the most comfortable long-ish haul flight that I’ve ever had. It was amusing to see their Dubai PR video as I came into land at DBX. Amid the usual glossy shots of the Burj Al Arab, the gaudiest hotel in the world, the desert, the Souq etc etc came the line:
Forget the credit crunch….Spend!!
fitting, no?
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