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Humiliation greets visitor at airport
The Mercury News ^
| August 13, 2002
| Truong Phuoc Khánh
Posted on 08/13/2002 3:18:01 PM PDT by snopercod
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:29:42 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: FryingPan101
Many of the inspectors are in your face types and I just don't get the attitude.Many of these minimun-wage paid yahoos just like harassing people, particularly white. Just look, when have you seen a person of any other color so harrassed, including middle easterners?
Willie, you're an honest man. What is your opinion?
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posted on
08/13/2002 3:38:07 PM PDT
by
xJones
To: snopercod
No travel violation, INS officials say, is too minor after Sept. 11. Help! I fell down laughing and can't get up!
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posted on
08/13/2002 3:38:39 PM PDT
by
mombonn
To: Willie Green
Willie, I meant to ping you in post #21.
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posted on
08/13/2002 3:39:43 PM PDT
by
xJones
To: snopercod
Whew, I'm sure gonna sleep better at night knowing the INS has the New Zealand threat under control.
To: snopercod
Let's see, how many terrorists are white Anglos from Australia? Yes, you on the back.
What's that? Zero? Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
Now, if we can get the idiot tyrants at the airport to realize this.
To: snopercod
``If you're going to bully citizens of your allies [or your citizens],'' she said, ``you're not going to have allies and you're going to fight the war on terrorism on your own.''
To: FryingPan101
Many of the inspectors are in your face types and I just don't get the attitude. For the most part - low IQ, low wage, suddenly give great power over people many probably hate (older, successful, white or whaever race they have a beef with, etc.). I even seen younger (and sometimes older) male security screeners take extra time scrutinizing the documents papers of attractive young ladies. Security, (and common sense) it sometimes seems is, secondary.
Power is where the attitude comes from, pure and simple.
To: j271; Jeff Head
Considering that a large percentage of the federal bureacracy consists of a mix of low-level sociopaths and the mildly retarded, the notion that these people are developing the power to arbitrarily search and detain is truly terrifying. There is a precedent, from only 80 years ago. It happened there, it can happen here.
The Nazi Mind-Set in America
To: snopercod
American Airlines lays off 7,000 - gee I wonder why people don't want to fly?
But I thought "Federalizing" airport security was going to fix everything - hmmmm.
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posted on
08/13/2002 3:44:41 PM PDT
by
willa
To: Gritty; AnnaZ
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To: Vidalia
HELOOOO? Quit Flying! ... unless it is purely business oriented or you have a family emergency You're absolutely right. Until our trustworthy government has us completely protected, we can't step out of our houses! No more vacations! No more hassles! The tourism industry will flourish! Best of all, we get to get those filthy foreigners out of this blessed country! Glory be!
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posted on
08/13/2002 3:46:42 PM PDT
by
JediGirl
To: snopercod
Immigration and Naturalization Service officials say what happened to Anderson happens dozens of times every day at major international airports. No travel violation, INS officials say, is too minor after Sept. 11. ``We have been the subject of very harsh criticism since 9-11,'' said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for the INS Western region. ``All our employees understand we cannot afford to make any mistakes now, and everybody is very, very vigilant. The stakes in this climate are very high.''
For the first half of this year, the INS has denied 7,422 individuals admission into the country by air. That compares with 9,130 people denied entry over the same period in 2000. But as a percentage of all travelers who are entering, or returning to, the U.S. from another country, the percentage of denied admissions has remained at .02 percent.
This born and bred American wants to know how many Saudis have received this treatment, Ms. Kice, and how many have quietly entered the USA since their countrymen massacred 3000 of our countrymen, and destroyed the World Trade Center.
I guess I'll get flamed for saying this, but I hold President Bush personally responsible for this BS. I wish I believed he had a clue about who our enemies are and who our enemies are not. (I'll give him a clue: 51 year-old women from New Zeeland are not the problem, and everytime we spend time paying attention to them, some dirt-eating bastard with a towel on his head walks by to assist in our destruction.)
ML/NJ
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posted on
08/13/2002 3:47:53 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: DainBramage
Yep, We would hate to lose all of New Zealands help. (/sarcasm) ,,, that's an interesting comment in the light that if New Zealand didn't participate in the war on terrorism, which we are, we'd be "against you". As we have our SAS engaged in this effort, I presume we can call ourselves allies. Should we feel like we're doing the right thing if this is the sort of comment we get from people like you, let alone iron curtain treatment from government approved "Dr Jellyfingers" at LAX is resultant?
To: ml/nj
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posted on
08/13/2002 3:50:41 PM PDT
by
JediGirl
To: xJones
Many of these minimun-wage paid yahoos just like harassing people, particularly white. Just look, when have you seen a person of any other color so harrassed, including middle easterners?
Willie, you're an honest man. What is your opinion?I think most of these "security" positions are low-wage, highly repetitive and monotonous, and filled by minimally qualified people. While many may be minorities who "have a chip on their shoulder" for whatever reason, I would not generalize that as a major problem. You come across individuals like that in all walks of life, and all socio-economic classes. IMHO, its simply a matter of humdrum, boring, low-skilled incompetence, regardless of their ethnic background.
To: Neophyte; zcat; general_re; mgstarr; Brian Allen; New Zealander; curiouskiwi; Byron_the_Aussie; ...
,,, 1-800 VICTIM
To: JediGirl
The almost tongue-in-cheek is about just that.
The Federal government cannot and will not be able to protect you as a citizen, even if they strip you nekkid, probe you from toenail to anus to cerebellum at every corner, every building or every airport.
The Federal government bureaucracy of the airport security type impedes nothing but the airline industry and associated services.
Until the asses who are screwed to their government jobs are "fire-able", from Fed Gov to Local City management, you as the citizen are screwed "every which way".
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posted on
08/13/2002 4:00:17 PM PDT
by
Vidalia
To: snopercod
And in the meantime...we have THOUSANDS of illegal aliens running rampant over and through our system! What a joke! This just infuriates me.
To: Blood of Tyrants
You miss the point.. They're proving how sensitive they are by being equal-opportunity thugs. We wouldn't want to imply that terrorists are arabs would we?
To: shaggy eel
I don't care how you feel if you come over here and over stay your visa then whine because our security does what its supposed to.
She's married to an American yet stays a New Zealander by choice, so she pays the price when she chose to overstay her visa.
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