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How did it make it worse? He posted it to call attention to it. It wasn't the pat down he objected to, it was how long it went on, it was like 10 minutes. He wasn't "outraged", he was disturbed by it and and wanted others to see it.
Good grief! He slowed the video he made and put "sad" music to it. That was no 10 minute pat down. He deliberately played on people's emotions and exploited his own child for all the world to see.
If you're stupid enough to not know that NO LIQUIDS means NO LIQUIDS when going through the check-point, then you only have yourself to blame if something like this happens. I always make a point of either finishing my drink or trashing it before I get to that point.
That's ridiculous. Why would having a liquid lead to a patdown? That makes no sense whatsoever.
Because "something else" usually ain't as profitable as drugs. Money talks, bovine excrement walks.
The point is being missed because one is trying to make a direct comparison of one kind of crime to another as oppose to tactics of one kind of crime being used or tried in another kind of crime.
Let's look at this way. Every so often in the news, there is the story of someone selling their child to someone else for a few hours or permanently so that child can be used/abused. These incidents have been known to occur in the United States.
People have been known to do dreadful things to children. Is it so hard to put 2 (crimes against children) and 2 (a means to acquire them) together to realize how else the criminally minded might use them?
Last time we flew on a commercial airline I was inspected by the TSA for weapons or other dangerous things. Fortunately they did not remove my brain. In my experience there are few dangerous weapons but lots of dangerous minds. Maybe we should do a telepathic brain scan to check for dangerous or angry thoughts. I resent having to put my Swiss Army jackknife in checked baggage. It is a set of tools not a weapon.
This annoyance, along with being packed in like peanuts in a jar, has spoiled air travel for me. Fortunately my wife and I bought a 2004 Corvette last summer. Now we can reach most anywhere on this continent that has paved roads within a few days. If we use our Subaru the roads do not even have to be paved.
I give up air travel with some regret. I once liked to fly but no more.
I flew all over the USA and Canada with a Leatherman tool on my hip. I can't fly any more. On 9/11 if just 10% of the passengers had been armed there would have been no crashes.
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