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To: Release
Lighten up, my friend. We live in a new world. I've flown to Paris, London, Arizona and other places in the past year, and being frisked and questioned just gives me convidence that they're looking closely.

I also live near an air force base, and while some people get upset at the sound of jets taking off, I consider it the sound of freedom. Do you see the connection between "inconvenience" and freedom/security? Do you see any alternatives to close monitoring?

8 posted on 12/30/2002 6:45:21 AM PST by Theo
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To: Theo
Do you see any alternatives to close monitoring?

Simple, we just don't have the courage to do it:

(1) No Middle Eastern men are allowed to fly or work in or around airports.
(2) Do to Middle Eastern men what we did to the Japanese during WWII. Relocation camps.

If necessary, extend the above to all Islamic men. I guarantee that what I suggest above will only seem extreme until ten thousand Americans die in a horrible attack.

9 posted on 12/30/2002 6:53:31 AM PST by ZeitgeistSurfer
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To: Theo
Air Force jets may indeed be the sound of freedom, but intrusive searches and other policies at airports which violate the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments are not merely "inconveniece" as you say but rather the wholesale destruction of liberties our soldiers in the Air Force are (were) trying to preserve.
12 posted on 12/30/2002 7:08:25 AM PST by coloradan
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To: Theo
" being frisked and questioned just gives me convidence that they're looking closely."

You are easily fooled.
14 posted on 12/30/2002 7:09:46 AM PST by PatrioticAmerican
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To: Theo
I remember when I lived on Ft Benning. When there was shooting on the range (near a hundred automatic weapons firing at one time) it sounded a lot like thunder.

My kids used to ask, "Dad is that thunder or shooting?"

I would reply, "That is shooting on the nearby range"

My kids would go "Great!" - They were happy because they could go outside and it would not be raining. I, of course, was happy because that was the sound of freedom.
17 posted on 12/30/2002 7:17:39 AM PST by 2banana
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To: Theo
We live in a new world

Nothing personal but I kinda wish people would stop saying that. The world has always been dangerous; the only thing that has changed is that some people no longer live in their "safe" fantasy world.

Our freedoms are not a mere luxury, to be tossed aside at every alarm. The toughest times are precisely when our freedoms are the most important.

18 posted on 12/30/2002 7:22:43 AM PST by alpowolf
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To: Theo
I agree with you, Theo.

My husband will be escorting his mother on Sunday to Arlington Nat'l Cemetery...to bury his stepfather. That means a cross country flight. He is well prepared to do what is necessary to ensure a safe flight. However, I'd sure wish they'd profile more...having my 76 year old mother in law's shoes and body checked go way beyond...

33 posted on 12/30/2002 8:03:21 AM PST by homeschool mama
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