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• Saturday, July 12, 2008 09:18 AM

  Lunacy

  We all know that this liquids ban is BS, but this was driven home even more clearly when I travelled through Japan waaay back in 2002.

  You go through security - if they found a bottle of water (which they did) they set it on top of a machine that flashed either red (danger Will Robinson) or green (nothing bad here).

  So the technology exists to avoid all this bullshit, but I suppose that the intent of whoever orchestrated the events of 9/11 was to keep the American public fearful, in-check and afraid to speak up.

  I for one hope Patrick continues to address the TSA idiocy. Maybe eventually someone will get the message. I know Flight Attendants in uniform that have had corkscrews confiscated from them at security. They get on board and what do they find? Corkscrews. Not as good as the ones they had confiscated (which is why they carry their own), but corkscrews none-the-less.

  I doubt the next President will change anything. Hell even those who were pinning their hopes on Obama should realize that he just voted in favor of your telephone conversations being monitored - all in the name of "Homeland Security", a Nazi'ish term if ever there was one.

  —JorenCarlson Read JorenCarlson's other letters
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