Benito “Sunny” Vergara, of The Wily Filipino, shares his views (under the blog title “Perks,” Feb. 5, 2007) on separate security lines for first class passengers and coach passengers:
Of course, she was right in the sense that if people are foolish — okay, wealthy — enough to afford the first-class tickets, then they should be welcome to do so. But I don’t think this was what she was arguing. Part of what rankled me was her easy defense of the “natural,” capitalist order of things, but that shouldn’t have been a surprise.