Airport insanity

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Sat Oct 16 16:22:08 PDT 2004


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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."

James A. Donald:
> > Nonetheless you can probably start fiddling with your shoes 
> > on a plane without the passengers seated near you jumping 
> > you.

Damian Gerow
> Perhaps, I don't know.  But we're not talking about the other 
> passengers, we're talking about screening based on looks, no?

When the other passengers jumped the shoe bomber, they were 
screening based on looks.

> So by that rationale, every Arab should have to drive?

Every young male Arab past puberty, with a few exceptions for 
special cases.

> Oh, and every white American (recall numerous references to 
> Mr. McVeigh)

Mc Veigh did not target innocents, and if he did target a plane 
full of innocents, perhaps in order to kill one guilty man on 
board, there is no way in hell he himself would be on that 
plane. 

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