The next time you’re trying to catch a flight, and you miss it for whatever reason, you’ll be happy to know that it’s perfectly okay to vent your frustration by opening the security gate door. You’re even allowed to open the door before or after yelling “Do you know who I am?” As long as you don’t actually storm through the door. Just opening the door, and causing security alarms to go off, is fine with everybody concerned. Apparently, nobody at our airports is overly concerned about security alarms going off. It’s not like security at airports is a big deal or anything.

Wouldn’t it be funny if somebody like the ACLU sent volunteers to airports to be deliberately late to flights, and then to open the security gate after it’s been closed? (And after throwing a senator-quality temper tantrum, of course.) An undercover recording of what transpires would, no doubt, be instructive for our Animal Farm democracy. I’m guessing that precedents set by the powerful somehow don’t apply to normal folks. (To good Americans, I’m almost tempted to say; glad I didn’t.)