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alfreda89 ([personal profile] alfreda89) wrote2007-04-09 02:29 pm
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If true, this is interesting...

Apparently it doesn't take much to be labeled as "An Enemy of the People."

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/04/enemy_of_the_pe.html

[identity profile] ebeeman.livejournal.com 2007-04-10 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty dubious that this is for real, especially since this is based on the opinion of a TSA employee. Especially since the guy whines about how his luggage got lost, and how that just -can't- be a coincidence. Yeah, right!

I had a lot of security checks (including a special mark on my airline tickets winning me extra security!) post-911, which I'll presume are because of my Middle Eastern travels, but eventually it tapered off and now I don't get checked more than anyone else.

---Ellen

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2007-04-10 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I had a lot of security checks (including a special mark on my airline tickets winning me extra security!) post-911, which I'll presume are because of my Middle Eastern travels, but eventually it tapered off and now I don't get checked more than anyone else.

Even if it is true, I would think it will taper off anyway. It draws attention when it doesn't. My bag was inspected every time I traveled, until this last time (at least no note telling me it was gone through -- )

We waste so much time on strange things. My mother has had 16 hip operations -- 15 on one side -- and she has titanium hips on both sides. Her card from the surgeon saying where the surgeries were, what they put in -- was not good enough. She had to flash her pudgy old lady hips to show the scars to get through last fall, going back to Arizona.