I had never heard of Loews Hotels; see the blissful ignorance with which staying on the ground and avoiding the TSA’s groping blesses a gal? But apparently the corporation “has 18 hotels and resorts in the United States and Canada, including the 414-room Loews Atlanta.” ....

 

The company now pimps for bureaucracies in the Department of Homeland Security. It offers serfs a deal: If “its most loyal guests” will enroll in the “Customs and Border Protection's Global Entry and the Transportation Security Administration's PreCheck” – furnishing the Feds with biographical and biometric information as we move ever closer to a “Papers, please” paradigm –, Loews will pay the program's “$100 application fee.”