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To: cgbg

You do not have to bow to authority and can wear you shoes and keep change in your pockets when you walk through the metal detector. But don't whine when the detector goes off and you have to have a more thorough pat down.

Again, your inconvenience does not equate to fascism. If you believe the government has over stepped its duties and responsibilities, I would agree. If you believe the role of government is limited and should remain so I would agree. But if you believe your government smells of fascism because of the security checkpoints at a airport you have no clue what fascism is.


17 posted on 06/16/2005 4:49:39 AM PDT by dpa5923 (Small minds talk about people, normal minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas.)
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To: dpa5923

I remember a talk show on which Little Richard appeared. They were discussing security and profiling. The white celebrities were bemoaning racial profiling and the indignity of actually searching a Muslim. Of all the folks on the show, Little Richard was the one who made sense. He said that he had to fly airplanes all the time and being hassled was inconvenient. However, not nearly as inconvenient as being blown up. Security could search him anytime they wanted as long as they looked under that other boy's turban. He cracked me up. He waved his hand in the air and removed an invisible turban. He screeched, "Look under that turban!" The other celebs shut up. They couldn't argue with a black legend.


28 posted on 06/16/2005 5:58:34 AM PDT by Samwise (In the battle between good and evil, evil often wins unless good is very, very careful.)
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To: dpa5923
you have no clue what fascism is.

Kindly define it for us, then.

32 posted on 06/16/2005 6:21:29 AM PDT by tnlibertarian ("In my opinion, they have no rights, except a safe return to their homeland. - "Robert Vazquez")
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