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To: Lane3 who wrote (128864)8/1/2005 12:06:09 AM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 793928
 
Ridiculous and I totally agree with you. I fly frequently (monthly) and my husband weekly. I have never been treated with disrespect. Being taken to "another area" usually means a few feet away from the original screening area and the wand search and patdown - which I have undergone many times--is completely inoffensive and non-invasive. I would never, ever react as this woman did.

I hardly meet the criteria for potential terrorist-- being more of the blonde, blue-eyed grandma type-- and while I believe we need to profile more than we do, I understand the seesaw we are on and willingly comply.

Long ago I read Corrie Ten Boom's books and still remember one incident of which she wrote. She was traveling from Europe on a speaking tour and was stopped at an airport. The guard questioned her about something in her luggage and her first reaction was to feel offended. How could he not know who she was? How honest she was! She was, after all, a Christian speaker! A Holocaust survivor! And then she realized that, of course, he DIDN'T know who she was. He was just doing his job. He had only his rules and her current behavior on which to judge her.

So just because I look like a grandma and know that I live a fairly exemplary life, is no guarantee that I am not some nut ready to blow up something. Until we stop seeing ourselves from an "I am the center of the universe" POV, we will continue to take unreasonable offense and neglect the arguments that should be made about efficacy and best use of resources.
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