On 30/7/02 4:10, "David Ross" <damiross2@attbi.com> wrote: > Whatever list you are refering to seems to have people who understand that > AMERICANS should be holding the screening jobs, no matter how hard it may be > to find them. In no case should the jobs go to people who are not American > citizens. Call me fascist - I don't care. This is my country. If I'm going > to have rude people handling sercurity, I want it to be my fellow citizens. > David, as an outsider living in Europe, whilst I can see your frustration, I think this security issue is getting out of hand. The Spanish live with the threat of ETA, the French live with the threat from Algerian fundamentalists, and the British have lived with the spectre of terrorism from Northern Ireland. But we have to get on with it. Yes, security needs to be better, but as many people on this list have pointed out, absolute security will destroy travel. As a European who has vacationed about 15 times in the States, visiting all four corners along the way, I exclude the States from my travel plans at the moment. Why? Because although I love to visit the country, I've heard loads of stories from other aviation enthusiasts about getting arrested (although all were released within an hour), and irrationally hassled by members of the public for having either a camera or binoculars. Not their fault precisely, they're just hyped up by the media. I genuinely hope things calm down in the future, whether screeners are American or not should be irrelevant - McVeigh was a US citizen, wasn't he? Jim