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[quote user="Phoebe Vet"] Those 19 guys did not carry those box cutters through the metal detectors enroute to the aircraft.  They were put on board by others.If you think giving up all your rights and liberties will make a world where nothing bad ever happens, you are mistaken.We have devolved into a neurotic paranoid society who's obsession with security and safety borders on mental illness.[/quote]In 1992 I spent 3 weeks in Taiwan on business.  When I got to LA on the way home I was wearing my field jacket and carrying a duffle bag, and as I was entering the concourse I was approached by a plain-clothes security officer who asked me where I was coming from? Taiwan.  Why was I there? I was installing software - a business trip.  Where did I stay there?  The Chiang Kai-shek Hotel by the airport.  Where am I going now?  Home - to Oshkosh, WI.  He thanked me for my time and I went on to the terminal where my connecting flight would depart.  This was 1992 - well before 9-11 - and I wasn't offended or put-out by his inquiries, because I figured he was doing his job, a job I'd rather have him doing than not doing.  Go ahead and call me mentally ill, but I figure there are better things to be offended by than a police officer asking me a few questions (like one did during a visit to DC in 1995 when I was photographng CSX action south of the metro area - she didn't offend me either and thankfully a CSX job came through as we were talking).
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