Airport insanity
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Sat Oct 16 11:27:19 PDT 2004
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James A. Donald:
> > Has anyone who does not look a terrorist done a suicide
> > mission outside Israel or Russia? Recall the shoe bomber.
> > You just had to look at him. You would think the airport
> > screeners would need to be half brain dead to let him on
> > the plane. Come to think of it, they are half brain dead,
> > but laws that require them to pretend to be stupider than
> > they actually are do not help.
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."
Nonetheless you can probably start fiddling with your shoes on
a plane without the passengers seated near you jumping you.
> For whatever reason, pictures of me always come out looking
> like some crazed religious fanatic. But that doesn't mean
> that I'm going to bomb anything. And I sure hope that I'm
> not going to be detained or denied entry because of how I
> *look*, alone.
If you really look like the shoe bomber, then you should have
to drive, or use public transport.
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James A. Donald
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