Security at airports.

For those overseas who may not have heard about our excitement over here in New Zealand this week... we had a hi-jacking.

On a small domestic flight of 7 passengers and two pilots, a mentally unbalanced, Somalian refugee with a record of intimidation and was a worry enough for her to be brought up in Parliament at least twice, attempted to hi-jack a plane and get if flown to Cuba err... Australia. Australia being 1500 kilometers away and the small plane under good circumstances might (with a strong tail wind) just make it that far. She broke into the pilots cabin by pulling back the curtain, took out her knife and attacked. One pilot came away with knife wounds to his hands and the other to his foot. (don't ask...).

The end result is now calls are being made for increased security on those domestic flights.

On one hand we have the security of knowing the incredibly small percentage of the population who would do such a thing cannot do such a thing, on the other hand it means employing more people to search, (thus higher airfares) and longer delays as we get told off for having deodorant.

My thought for the day is, why do we just stop at increasing security on airplanes? Is it just because of the 9/11 horror. Or the gnawing dread we all have on planes that if something goes wrong there is no chance of escape?

Unbalanced people are gong to lash out where ever we are schools, movies, malls, churches, buses, taxis, the internet... at what point to do we stop reacting to the results of the disease and look more in depth and apply the resources currently used to secure things into helping the people actually not be unbalanced in the first place?

Cal me naive but why put an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff?