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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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  • Thursday, July 10, 2008 09:08 PM

    Sigh...

    I experienced the same thing with a dangerously serrated knife. When I pointed out that the above mentioned dangerously serrated knife was an airline butter "knife" that I had for years was from the same carrier and had their logo on it, I had just gotten off of internationally and would be getting back on the same carrier shortly. That was the point for me when I knew the TSA had truly jumped the shark.

    I'm going to be flying internationally in the fall, but for the rest of it, I don't just don't feel like flying any more.

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