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Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly

theodp writes "After watching a burly airport screener search her lymphoma-stricken father, forcing the frail and faltering 78-year-old to hand over his oxygen meter, stand at attention with arms spread for a wand search, take off the Velcro strap shoes that he'd struggled to put on, and strain to keep his balance as his belt was tugged repeatedly, a Newsweek columnist wonders: have we lost our common sense when it comes to passenger screening?" An anonymous reader writes "CNN reported that Kennedy wasn't alone in being listed in the airport watch list as reported in a Slashdot article. Rep. John Lewis, D - Georgia, a nine-term congressman, has been stopped many times because his name appeared on an airline watch list as told to Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on border security. He contacted the Department of Transportation, the Department of Homeland Security and executives at various airlines in an effort to get his name off the list, but failed. Instead, he received a letter from the TSA indicating he has cleared an identity check with the agency even though he might still be subject to extra security checks."

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  1. GNAA Mops up Aimgirl Survivors OMFG HY by GNAA+Goat-See · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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  2. damn typo by b17bmbr · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and by focusing on a few select groups, we're becoming nazi germany.

    meant to say, we're not becoming nazi germany. not a freudian slip.

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  3. Re:hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shut the hell up you fuckass.

  4. Re:I don't understand the focus on airline securit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am pretty confident that any attack on U.S. soil that we see is likely to be orchestrated from inside the Whitehouse. That's why I'll be voting for Kerry in November.

    I'm confused... So are you voting for Kerry because you think his attack on U.S. soil will be better or worse? Also, is it really necessary to attack the soil? I've found it just as useful to give it a good turnover and add some fertilizer.

  5. Re:hmm... by Exatron · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    We have reached the limits of what rectal probing can teach us.

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  7. Re:Fighting the last war. by TyrranzzX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  8. Re:Security? by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Modded "Insightful"?

    By whom, George Bush?

    Sure, the Kennedy's are drunks and rapists, but I sincerely doubt ol' Teddy is up for molesting stewardesses or trying to crash the plane because he had too many little bottles of booz.

    It's irrelevant, anyway. He's on the watch list because his NAME is wrong. (And no doubt because he's a Democrat in a Republican administration of paranoids that make Dick Nixon look sane.)

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  9. Re:limbless can't fly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Quiet you cheese-eating surrender monkey.

    Goddamn Frenchies and their Frenchie-wannabes, bringing down Slashdot again. Why don't you go find a piece of land to call your own, then surrender when someone walks by?

    Seriously though - get a sense of humour.

    The French would be the first to admit they have a stereotype as snobs or rude people. Just like Americans have the culturally-insensitive ignorant stereotype... the New Zealanders love rugby and watch their sheep, the Aussies love sheep and watch their rugby, and the Brits say "Wot wot" and have tea and crumpets while watching Coro Street.

    Dude, you really blew your stack over something that wasn't flamebaitish in the least (unlike my comment ;)... grow a thicker skin and come back to Slashdot when you realise words are only words.

  10. Re:limbless can't fly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YHBT. YHL. HAND.

  11. Re:limbless can't fly by 1u3hr · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Some rednecks modded my post, repeated below, as "troll". The post I objected to and quoted, was "funny" and "insightful". At least they're consistently bigoted. Feel free to mod this down too.
    The French would be the first to admit they have a stereotype as snobs or rude people. Just like Americans have the culturally- insensitive ignorant stereotype... the New Zealanders love rugby and watch their sheep, the Aussies love sheep and watch their rugby, and the Brits say "Wot wot" and have tea and crumpets while watching Coro Street.

    Fuck off idiot and all those Americans who modded this racist shit up.