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Passenger alarm over daggers on plane NZPA | Friday, 26 January 2007 Airport security in Auckland is being questioned after a group of Sikh priests boarded an Air New Zealand plane wearing ceremonial daggers under their robes. Passengers became concerned when they noticed the ceremonial kirpan daggers poking out from under their traditional robes at Auckland's domestic terminal while boarding a flight to Napier on Sunday. The Sikh priests willingly handed the daggers over to the pilot once passengers notified the cabin crew and the daggers were locked in the cockpit during the flight. Passenger David Anderson, who notified the...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com Fix What's Wrong at the Airport: Start ProfilingSusan EstrichWednesday, Oct. 6, 2004 Why me? I almost didn't make it to Cleveland today for the vice presidential debate. I was in Newark, being searched. There is not a city in America where police officers do not engage in profiling. They treat men differently than women, young people differently than middle-age and older people and, yes, minorities differently from white people. In my town, Los Angeles, where three-quarters of all violent crimes are committed by young minority men, it is not a question of racism but rationality, and survival,...