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Friday, July 11, 2008 12:00 AM

Ask the pilot

Propped up by a culture of fear, TSA has become a bureaucracy with too much power and little accountability. Where will the lunacy stop?
By Patrick Smith

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  • Friday, July 11, 2008 06:02 AM

    Dave the Engineer

    So you've decided to complain about someone complaining. Of course Patrick Smith is complaining about an abuse of authority and you're complaining because you don't want to read about it. You even manage to be unoriginal in your own complaining.

    How about you take your own advice and shut up. You might be fine with "bend over whenever the government speaks" but others among us would prefer to affect change and articles like this keep attention on the problem which is the beginnnig point for any change.

    —Lynx Read Lynx's other letters

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