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Politics : Ron Paul for President (2012) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grandk who wrote (73)	6/7/2007 1:37:47 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 571

I enjoyed that speech very much, thanks for posting the link. Though there is no scientific evidence of any likelihood of liquids and gels being mixed on an airplane to make a bomb, billions of dollars are wasted throwing away toothpaste and hair spray, and searching old women in wheelchairs. I have to tell my story: About a year ago I put my wife and two young daughters on a flight out of Seattle to Spokane Washington (not a lot of militant arabs on this flight, ha ha). Anyway, the security folks at the airport pulled my wife out of the screening process, sat her down on a chair (as if to be interrogated) and began to systematically search her for whatever it was that made their wand beep. I watched from about fifty feet away, a little sickened. I wasn't bothered about whether my wife's underwire bra or her hair comb was setting off the wand, but rather because of the obviously worried look on the faces of our three year old and our six year old. Homeland secure! What a joke. Anyway, the last time I flew to Spokane this past winter I had my cross country ski wax confiscated. Homeland Secure!