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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (22176)	8/6/2002 1:12:34 PM
From: AC Flyer	Read Replies (2) of 74559

Raymond: While I do not agree with your black and white view of the ethics of business, I am in total agreement with you on this one. The way in which our civil rights have been trashed by TSA thugs is highly alarming. I have read of an 8 year old boy being separated from his parents for a full-body search because "the computer picked his name": of a 75 year old WWII Medal of Honor winner who very narrowly escaped having his Medal of Honor confiscated by America West screeners, never to be seen again, because the star-shaped medal "could be used as a weapon." Of a passenger escorted from an America West plane in handcuffs because she jokingly asked if the pilots had had a sobriety check - a week after two America West pilots were arrested for attempting to fly a plane full of passengers while legally drunk. And, most laughable of all, how aircrew (pilots) are now targeted for extra attention, including a full pat-down, just in case they are hiding a box cutter adjacent to their units so that once in the cockpit they can remove the hidden weapon and hijack themselves. Searching the pilots? Think about how Orwellian that is? "Well, Mr. Pilot, no weapons on you. I guess it's safe now for you to sit at the controls of the aircraft behind a locked door, where you can smash the plane, everyone on it and a thousand people on the ground to smithereens with the push of a finger." I have personally resolved to fly now only when absolutely necessary (i.e for vacations), but this is not really the answer. The US government has a record of going overboard during crises (going door-to-door to confiscate privately-owned gold in the '30s, incarcerating all Japanese Americans during WWII) and I am hoping that this too shall pass. I'm not optimistic. Thank God for the founding fathers who gave us three branches of government so that the citizenry could eventually overturn this kind of collective madness.

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