Wim wrote:

www.commondreams.org/views03/1231-04.htm

Can this happen to a US boater with a crew/passengers?
Re-entering a USA port at the "wrong time" when the alert has become orange?
A rhetorical question?
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c ya Wim
www.cruising.ca/thousand/f-index.html

It's just another example of how the "feel good" (i.e. the stuff we as
normal people see and hear about ... not the stuff we don't know
happens) security doesn't really do much or work for that matter.

I travel quite a bit and last year ('03) alone I've seen -

Two people who id'ed themselves as doctors board a plane carrying full
field surgery kits, complete with a full range of cutters (saw it at the
security inspection)

Children max out the metal detector and not get stopped or searched (saw
it at the security inspection at Dulles no less)

Luggage board an aircraft that the passenger missed (me!! My stuff made
all the connections, I missed the first one!)


I feel absolutely no safer today on a commercial craft than I did 5
years ago.


To keep this on topic, as anyone ever been stopped in International
waters and hassled because they did not have "adequate id"? Only had a
driver's license and a passport and was never told what was "adequate",
only a "thank-you for your cooperation, have a nice day" after a couple
of hours.