"Steve B" wrote in message
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Is it me, or what? Am I profiling?

This is JUST for the people who've actually been to an airport on a trip
in the last year. Others, please STFU.

Okay. This is just me.

I have noticed that A LOT of airport workers, particularly TSA employees,
are of a minority group. (there's that profiling I warned you about) All
look like they are either in a trance, or they want to rip the lining out
of your baggage in search of some elusive contraband. They're either over
the top or sleep walking. No in between. All watching their watch to see
when their next break is.

Flying back from Hawaii, I had a bottle of EXPENSIVE cologne confiscated,
yet they left a FULL SIZED PAIR OF HAIR SCISSORS in the same shave kit.

Are all these people steered to these jobs from ACORN? Are they SEIU
members?

I mean, it COULD be me, but I see a pattern here. The term Airport
Security makes me feel very unsecure. And actual PROFILING isn't used
enough, IMHO.

Rant off

Steve



I had an interesting experience right after 9/11 with airport security
coming back from Hawaii. There was a really big guy ahead of us in line. He
was carrying a notebook computer. The checker at the x-ray machine asked him
to take it out of the case and turn it on, and he started to get really
irate. We were next through. He was arguing and raising his voice big time.
My friend nudged me, and I could see that "other" security people were
starting to get interested and moving our way. Finally my friend said to
him, hey, are you dumb or what? Do you want to miss your flight and get
strip searched. Start the f*cking computer, so we can all get out of here.
Amazing, since my friend is rather a calm guy. Anyway, the guy with the
computer did an about face on attitude, apologized, and started it up.
Everyone was relieved.

I'm headed off for a short trip to France, so I'll see how much things have
changed or not since my last trip about a year ago. I came back with a
fairly big bottle of some perfume last time that I forgot to pack, so I
figured I'd try (for a friend... I don't use it), and I sailed right through
no problem. It was way over the oz limit.

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