Re: [Leica] film and travel

[Bill Satterfield <cwsat@istate.net>]

Doesn't it make sense that with all of the focus on airport security, 
the next attack will not involve airports or aircrafts? They are faking 
us off, like a boxer. While we are lookin at their left, they will right 
hook us.

Ted Grant wrote:

>Neil Beddoe exclaimed:
>
>>>>Ted pulled one out of the air: <<<
>>>>
>
>Neil only one comment! Bull shit mon ami it didn't come out of the air, it
>came right from Barcelona and the Olympics!  Were you there? If not, then
>don't make stupid comments.
>
>A short time before the Games were to open in 1992, please note the date it
>has nothing to do with 9/11 it was discovered by European security forces,
>someone had been working with film cassettes and loading them with
>explosives of some kind.
>
>And if it happens there are any other pros who worked the '92 Games on the
>list maybe they'll confirm the horrendous scanning techniques of the Spanish
>police who caused no end of grief for photographers due to the discovery of
>the explosives in film cassettes.
>
>It was so bad, one day I happened to have .....one roll of exposed film in
>my trouser pocket, walked through the body scanner and triggered it. Of
>course I was immediately checking all my pockets and out came one roll!
>
>Jeeeesh I might as well have had an UZI! Very carefully I had to place the
>roll in a plastic container and the roll went through the scanner three
>times while I watched with two cops, one on each side waiting to see if the
>roll was clean. Obviously it was.
>
>You see Neil what folks in North America forget is Europeans have been
>dealing with terrorist elements for years and in particular the Spanish and
>the Basques who want their own country, whatever.
>
>So when an international event like the Summer Olympics occurs it's a great
>time for terrorists elements to make a big bang with the world media right
>there to cover the story. So the discovery of any form of possible danger to
>the Games, athletes / media and locals is taken very seriously.
>
>You might re-call the Munich 1972 Summer Olympics, I do, I was shooting it,
>when the terrorists killed the Israeli athletes and the fun went right out
>of the Olympics then and since! Now they're like armed camps no matter where
>they're held!
>
>No Neil, not out of the air, facts as presented to the world media in the
>first briefing at the 1992 Games.
>
>>This whole crap is just an exercise in arse covering by the airports who
>>need to show they are doing something, anything about security no matter
>>
>how
>
>>irrelevant.  I walked onto a flight from JFK with a four foot wire cable
>>release in my bag that would make an excellent garrote and the guy in
>>
>front
>
>>of me had his plastic Bic razors confiscated.
>>
>>I feel no more or less secure flying than I did on September the 12th it
>>just takes me longer to get off the ground.<<<<
>>
>
>I can't agree with you more, and like you, I've watched some really stupid
>things being done in the name of making the plane and passengers more
>secure. And it truly does take longer to get off the ground and it's a big
>pain in the ass in the name of giving some folks a false sense of security.
>
>ted
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>
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