When you can pay more ("Preferred Access") to get into shorter security lines and get through security more quickly, that just serves to underscore how little a

When you can pay more ("Preferred Access") to get into shorter security lines and get through security more quickly, that just serves to underscore how little actual 'security' is really present. And I say this as someone who has stood in both the slow line and the fast line - this isn't me being grumpy because "those people" go through the line faster while I'm stuck. And now "Pre-Check" is letting us get back to the level of actual security we had pre-911: reasonably effective and not in the way. Only now it's a privilege that must be applied for and paid for. Quite the racket.