Damian Gerow
I've had more than one comment about my ID photos that amount to basically: "You look like you've just left a terrorist training camp."
As Erma Bombeck wrote, by the time you look like your passport photo, it's time to come home from vacation. An extra couple of red-eye flights don't help, either. At 11:27 AM 10/16/2004, James A. Donald wrote:
If you really look like the shoe bomber, then you should have to drive, or use public transport.
James misspoke here - the only public air transport I'm aware of in the US is run by the military, and or if he meant that people who look like shaggy-haired Brits with real leather shoes should be banned from privately-run transportation systems like airplanes and Greyhound, that pretty much leaves Amtrack as the only long-distance transport option for civilians, since city and county busses normally don't go very far. At 11:27 AM 10/16/2004, James A. Donald wrote:
Provided the number of people you throw off planes is rather small, I don't see the problem.
Personally, as a relatively frequent flyer, I worry much more about things like cutting corners of fuselage and engine maintenance and quality of fuel (and, perhaps even more, the quality of onboard coffee) than about bombers on board. Unfortunately, cutting the quality of the onboard coffee means that you're more likely to look like a shoe-bomber by the time the
Depends a lot on how high up the planes are when you throw them off... There's the concept of "due process of law" that the Bush administration isn't very familiar with that determines when you're Constitutionally permitted to deprive people of their liberties. At 11:38 AM 10/18/2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: plane arrives. ---- Bill Stewart bill.stewart@pobox.com