Re: [Leica] airport response

[Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>]

My 2 cts.....
There are a lot of issues and problems in our world to
fight for, but I don't think fighting for our rights
in avoiding our films being x-rayed is worth the
effort. 
Do I sense a hint of abusing our rights here ????
Human rights on issues on such micro scale could
potentially obscure the real and bigger issues when we
really needed it.

- --- Larry Fuller <merryandbo@earthlink.net> wrote:
>    Okay, okay, Ted & John, I surrender.  I'm new to
> photography and my
> class instructor said to do what I did as he said
> all film will be
> destroyed by the scanners.   I WAS polite, just
> extremely firm. I did
> say  'yes sir'  and also said  'I realize you are
> just doing your job'.
> The point wasn't to create a p_____g match with
> security, it was just to
> get what I THOUGHT I needed and WAS entitled to. I
> didn't think about
> making it harder on those of you who make a living. 
> Back off already,
> I'm sorry.    I don't travel by air that much, so
> from now on I'll buy
> my film when I arrive.
> 
>    Actually the reason behind it all was that for my
> assignment, my
> instructor said to get some EDL pictures while at
> the airport, and he
> said the film would probably be ruined if I let them
> scan it.  I am now
> a little bit more educated and won't push it again.
> 
>   Having said all that, however, I will add that I
> really wouldn't mind
> missing a flight and spending a day in security just
> to prove a
> principle. Personally I think we give-in too easily
> too often, and
> sometimes there is a price to pay to maintain your
> freedom. For those
> that are too young to remember, Freedom is not free.
> And I'm talking US
> airports here. I'm not stupid either. If traveling
> to another country
> (which in 50 yrs I have never done (except in
> uniform)) I would be the
> most compliant, humble traveler on the flight.
> 
> Larry
> 
> 
> 
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