The Government Treating Us All Like Criminals Turns Out To Be Kind Of A Problem
We can't act nimbly in a crisis if we've got countless legislative albatrosses hanging off us.
Walter Olson writes at WashEx:
During a crisis, governments often impose new regulations that wind up making things worse when the next crisis strikes from some other direction. The TSA checkpoint system adopted after Sept. 11, for example, is now the one point in air travel where a virus-fearing traveler is least able to avoid prolonged physical or face-to-face contact with a stranger, as well as the handling and commingling of high-touch personal items on communal trays.Another set of regulations that took off after Sept. 11 was imposed on the financial sector to combat "money laundering" -- that is to say, transfers of funds with little or no documentation. Terror groups were portrayed as having a special proclivity for anonymous payments even though all sorts of innocent persons used them too. Under the Bank Secrecy Act, banks must follow cumbersome "know your customer" rules meant to tease out customers' identities and roles in the economy and also must monitor and report so-called suspicious transactions -- anything out of the ordinary for the kind of customer revealed by the profile.
Now that banks are expected to respond quickly to the COVID-19 crisis, the old rules are causing all sorts of problems. For example, the economic shutdown and its resulting uncertainties have combined with stranded family members to jolt many account holders into completely new transaction patterns -- asking for sudden cash withdrawals, using only online banking when they'd never used it before, and so forth.
Now The Bank Secrecy Act is turning into the banks being really slow and ponderous in verifying people's identity.
Olson is right:
There are many good reasons for deregulation. One of them is that it bolsters resilience when systems are asked to cope with complex new perils.
And here's my tweet to the government lap dog of the day:
TSA is jobs prog that dressed up former mall food court workers in cop suits to violate our rights for pay. They missed 90%+ of weapons in tests. It was obedience training for American public to tolerate our rights being yanked from us. You're doggie #1. @marcorandazza is my hero https://t.co/loTHxbhL6O
— Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) April 16, 2020
More people need to ask the question of "if you can temporarily suspend certain rules and regulations during an emergency, then why should those be retained after the emergency? what good are they?"
As for on-line or video banking, the banks have been pushing us in that direction for a while. Labor is a business's number one cost. As I recall, Elliot Spitzer, former NY governor got busted for seeing hoo...err...escorts because his banking transactions stood out, even if he was no were near the $10K reporting threshold.
I R A Darth Aggie at April 17, 2020 6:51 AM
You can keep saying that the TSA violates your Fourth Amendment Rights. Repeating a falsehood doesn't make it true.
You consented to be searched. Period. If you didn't consent to be searched, you wouldn't have been sold the plane ticket. There is no right to fly.
Patrick at April 17, 2020 12:28 PM
Wear the brown shirt, Patrick.
Radwaste at April 17, 2020 12:42 PM
Technically, Patrick is correct.
You do have to consent to a search in order to buy at ticket. It's a condition of purchasing the ticket. It's not really your choice. Your choice is to fly on a commercial airline or find some other means of transportation.
Try keeping your job after explaining to your boss that you need to leave a week early to take the train to the out-of-state meeting. And will be back next week when the train gets in. How do you think your boss will feel about an expense report that includes a chartered jet?
On the other hand, do you really want to be be trapped in an aluminum tube 30,000 feet in the air with a group of people whose only security check was a vigorous pinkie-swear not to hijack the plane?
Conan the Grammarian at April 17, 2020 1:28 PM
I don't have an issue with the pinkie-swear. After all given the track record of the TSA the pinkie-swear is just as effective and far cheaper.
Ben at April 17, 2020 4:31 PM
Wear the dunce cap, Radwaste.
Patrick at April 17, 2020 5:37 PM
You consented to be searched. Period. If you didn't consent to be searched, you wouldn't have been sold the plane ticket. There is no right to fly.
Maybe not, Patrick, but you do have the right to swim to Cuba and try them out.
Meanwhile, just the flu, bro! /sarc
mpetrie98 at April 17, 2020 8:31 PM
The next TSA will involve health and hygiene. Things like requiring vaccines to fly. And having people conspicuously washing and disinfecting stuff in a theatrical way.
NicoleK at April 18, 2020 6:58 AM
In The Great Influenza, John Barry records that Woodrow Wilson's stroke was more-than-likely a result of contracting the flu during the pandemic. His relative ineffectiveness during and after the 1919 Paris peace conference can be traced to his flu and stroke.
Conan the Grammarian at April 18, 2020 8:27 AM
"having people conspicuously washing"
Yes please, along with pre-boarding girth measurements, sobriety tests, and polite flier instruction.
And disinfect the armrests and tabletops while we're being deloused, wouldya?
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