Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ever been asked to "prove" that your laptop is a computer or that your camera is a camera? How will one "prove" to the idiots in security that my dialysis cycler is a cycler? They probably have never heard of them. Even if I could prove it, the size of the thing (especially with all the other things that must be carried) exceeds what is usually allowed to be carried on. Would YOU send your medically critical items through as checked baggage? Ken Wilcox At 5:01 PM +0200 5/21/02, Nathan Wajsman wrote: >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 - -- _____________________ Ken Wilcox klw.51 at comcast.net - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html