Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ken, I do sympathize with you, as my father is diabetic and has other health problems and, like you, must travel with his syringes and blood testing equipment and a whole pharmacy worth of medications. So he endures the extra checks. I am fully with B.D. here, I feel very upset when I see a security lapse (such as the xray operator not looking at the screen but chatting with a colleague instead). The inspections may not be perfect but what is the alternative? If you are independently wealthy you can go the John Madden route, but I am afraid that the rest of us will just have to adjust to the new environment. Nathan Ken Wilcox wrote: > Seem to me that all that is being accomplished is that normal > citizens who have had their nail clippers and knitting needles take > from them are having any useful, although pitiful, means of resisting > terrorist in the air. Repeated testing has shown, time after time > that various weapons can routinely get past security checkpoints. Law > abiding citizens are the only ones that can't have weapons. > > I hope I don't sound like a half crazed conseritive. I'm a life-long > liberal who is fed up with "security" measures that really only LOOK > like they might be effective. > > It is very easy to sympathize with people in my position, effectively > grounded, when you are not one of them. > > Ken Wilcox - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html