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To: ml/nj
Is that the best you can do? A personal assault on me because I beleive this is a result of our system at least trying to get tighter? What do you know about arriving at an airport and having your name pop up as having done something illegal in the past? You really think they would wave you through in Israel? BS

I'm sure your a favorite caller to alot of radio shows. Hell man record it and listen to it over and over and really begin to think your the only opinion that matters, that should feel good.

BTW, I grew up overseas and traveled to many points in the world from the eighth grade on, most times alone. I've been through customs plenty, searched, researched and called into alot of little rooms off to the side to be questioned, though never strip searched. I was detained entering Saigon for over an hour because they thought I was an AWOL GI trying to get out, even though I was only in the 10th grade. They put me in the back of a Deuce and a half and took me to a security shack to talk with an American, that let me go fairly quickly.

Once in Manila while Marcos was around I was kept overnight because a cab I was in hit a kid while driving through unlit slums. Finally school officials found out and came and got me. Go call some radio show and spew your nonsense somewhere else. Mistakes will be made at airports againgI'm sure but at least its getting better.

166 posted on 08/14/2002 4:57:40 AM PDT by DainBramage
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To: DainBramage
I'm sure your a favorite caller to alot of radio shows. Hell man record it and listen to it over and over and really begin to think your the only opinion that matters, that should feel good.

So I guess the bottom line is that you haven't been to Israel?

But you wrote about their security as if you had. Someone (me) who has been there recently sets the record straight, and you call it a "personal assualt."

In fact, the Israeli setup, with intelligent screeners who do profile, and who do exercise judgment, is what some of us want to see here, but I guess the unwashed here in the USA just won't have it.

We're doomed.

ML/NJ

167 posted on 08/14/2002 5:06:10 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: DainBramage
Thank you for staying on message and consistently rebutting the folly on this thread.

The woman broke the law. She was detained as a person who violated her visa. As much as the INS does wrong other places (and they need to improve in a lot of areas), they did right here. We cannot rely on someone's citizenship or phenotype to determine whether or not we will scrutinize them breaking our laws.
168 posted on 08/14/2002 5:21:22 AM PDT by Under the Radar
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To: DainBramage
Exactly how many airliners have been hijacked in the US since these security measures have been put in place?
169 posted on 08/14/2002 5:47:16 AM PDT by RabidBartender
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