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Old 10th Aug 2003, 06:54
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M.Mouse

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Like many pilots I accept the quite absurd screening that I have to go through with resigned boredom.

I am regularly 'frisked' for setting off the extraordinarily variably sensitive arches that we must pass through. My attire varies little but some I walk through with not a bleep and others go off as though I was armed from head to toe.

What I find quite astonishing is the complete refusal to acknowledge the fact that I don't need a weapon to take control of the aeroplane....I already have control!

It is also a littler irritating to observe a general attitude from those in charge in the US that terrorism is a new phenomenon.

The rest of the world has been dealing with it for decades.
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