Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Message: 10 Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:53:13 -0230 From: "Greg Locke" <locke@straylight.ca> Subject: RE: [Leica] Geesh - and we though camera people had it tough OK...I know this has nothing to do with leicas and Brian will probably yank it being a political statement but... The USA is going to Hell in hand basket and any sensible person will never set foot in it again until such time it decides to join the world of civility again.... What little of it there is left, anyway. "Reality of the times" my ass. Its just excuse for ignorance, thuggery and brutality by the state. --- lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: ======================================================================= My first reaction was to agree with Greg. Then I read of the women who smuggled explosives aboard the Russian airliners, resulting in the death of many people, and I was not so sure. Why is there not more revulsion at killing innocent people than there is at at airport search that causes no physical injury? If such searches stop and a woman explodes an airliner -- maybe in Canada -- to "make a point", wouldn't we be up in arms about how incompetent TSA was and how stupid to ignore women as carriers of explosives after the Russian experience? These are not easy questions, but as someone who flies a lot (and whose family members fly a lot too), I do not object to the security measures being taken.