Steve, You just don't get it. The more inane the system is the more confusing it will be for the Bad guys. Do you worry, going bare-foot through the security check with everyone? Whatever happened to "No shoes, no shirt - no service?" AZ - Keeping an eye out for normal behavior. Build a Lookaround! The Lookaround Book, 4th ed. Now an E-book. http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: govt spys? > From: Steve Hodges <shodges@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, February 01, 2006 7:24 pm > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Bob Maxey wrote: > > > > You could be a writer researching a book. Or you could be someone with > > a strange interest in power plants, poisons, bombs, and the like. You > > know you are innocent, but should they tear your life apart? > > > > > > > > Or you could be the chairman of an international airline carrying > detailed plans of a new aircraft. > > "And I said, `I'm the chairman of an airline. I'm the chairman of > Qantas'. And this black guy, who was, like, eight foot tall, said, `But > you're a woman'," > > It took an hour to convince the TSA that she wasn't a terrorist. And in > the end what did she do? Did she sue? Did she get him fired? Did she > do something else to get back at him or the US? No, she: > > "...produced paper with her letterhead on it and wrote a note to the > guard, whose name was Bill. ... `Dear Bill, this is from the chairman of > Qantas, who is a woman'." > > <http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,17785550%5E661,00.html> > > The rest of us would probably be sitting, waiting to be tried in secrecy > in some place that's not actually in the US. :-( > > Mind you, it's not like the US has cornered the market on stupid > security people. > > "New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark was frisked at Sydney Airport > for explosives in an incident that has embarrassed the Australian > Government." > > And what did our government say? > > "`You won't be surprised to hear the New Zealand Prime Minister was not > found to be carrying any explosives,` a spokesman for Transport Minister > John Anderson said." > > http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/23/1069522472954.html > > You've just got to laugh. (At least it's not a strip search) > > It seems that people will do almost anything if someone in "authority" > tells them to. And people will take advantage of that :-( > > <http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051009/NEWS01/510090392> > > Only in America? Sadly, no. > > Steve
