Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Airport X-ray Test
From: dmorton@journalist.co.uk (David Morton)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 9:18 +0100 (BST)
 
roland@dnai.com wrote:

> Heathrow is unreasonable in its securitly.   Each year we travel in 
> Europe
> or Asia on holiday.
> Nowhere in St Petersburg, Helsinki, Paris, Frankfort, USA(my country)
> Narita, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Chaing Mei, Hanoi or Taipei all visited in 
> the
> last two years have I experienced any security like in Heathrow in 1998.

And how many of those countries you've listed have been on the receiving 
end of a terrorist bombing campaign lasting more than *thirty* years?

The security at Heathrow and elsewhere in the UK is what it needs to be, 
and I'm damned glad it's there.