(Not saying they don't treat us like cattle, just that he can't say he didn't know they'd be authoritative goons.)
Something that I noticed when I last flew somewhere in 2004 was that some airports let me through with my lighter and some did not. It seems that there are different policies followed by the airports. Or they don’t all enforce the same rules evenly. England stated that he thought you could take a drink on the plane if it was purchased at the airport. Evidently he’d done that before.