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As a bi-Coastal entrepreneur, I have endured the presence of the newly empowered TSA drones and their disrespect for American citizens...especially those of Caucasian ancestry.

I also happen to have an office in the downtown Manhattan, about two blocks from "Ground Zero", as it has been sensationally referred to.

The mindless knee-jerk reaction that has followed 9-11 only typifies the bumbling bureaucracy of government agencies in America that I would expect. The usual increases in fascist police-state tactics, empowering control-freaks whose sole purpose in life is to micro-manage every area of our lives.

Case in point: A couple of months back while on my way to LAX via JFK, I witnessed a 64 year old grandmother being what I could only describe as harassed by airport security types.

After placing her bag through the X-ray machine, security found an antique gold-toothpick in her handbag; a family heirloom passed down through her family from a more noble time in America.

The screeners insisted she surrender her keepsake to them if she wished to enter the terminal, at which she became upset and was asked to step-aside for "further processing". Being slightly irritated by their handling of the grandmother
(a white woman who certainly had no reason to be feared by ANY American citizen), I stepped forward and asked why she was being led away. After I was told to "mind your own business" by a nasty women who spoke broken-English with a Caribbean accent, I asked if it would be possible for this women to return to the ticketing counter to place her heirloom in her luggage.

While the mind-numb screener glared at me, her supervisor thought about it and replied, "If that is satisfactory with her, it sounds OK to me".

The white-haired lady said "yes, it's OK with me" and he released her in the hallway to return to the ticketing/luggage desks. I accompanied her to make sure she was OK.

To make a long story short, the ticketing agent complied with the request and the women was allowed to continue on her trip to see her grandchildren.

IMHO, the whole incident was uncalled for as I don't remember ever hearing of 64 year-old fourth-generation American grandmother being an Islamic terrorist hell-bent on the destruction of anything, have you?

Although Nick Monahan sounds a like another Hollywood liberal new-age kook, he also sounds like a coherent individual who probably isn't prone to violent outbursts. As an American patroit who takes his liberties quite serious, I probably would have done the same or worse in his situation.

Maybe this incident will make him question the morass that has developed from tyrants and anti-patriots that have turned against the Constitution.

There are no atheist or liberals in a foxhole.

OK, I've said my piece...now back to the pissing match.