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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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  • Saturday, July 12, 2008 12:21 PM

    glass aboard planes...

    I work for an art gallery that sells framed photographs. We routinely wrap the 11x14 pictures to be carried onto planes. So far, neither the TSA nor the terrorists have figured out that these pictures contain large sheets of glass that can easily be broken into some very, very sharp knives.

    Though as Mr. Smith pointed out, you can make a knife out of just about anything on board an airplane.

    —Leeandra Nolting Read Leeandra Nolting's other letters

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