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more on YES YES TSA may loosen carry-on, shoe-removal, other rules
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:41:59 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Lin, Herb" <HLin () nas edu> Date: August 13, 2005 12:06:01 PM EDT To: dave () farber net, Ip Ip <ip () v2 listbox com>Subject: RE: [IP] YES YES TSA may loosen carry-on, shoe-removal, other rules
Please withhold my name if you publish. If these powerful individuals are exempt from the security searches etc, they will never suffer from the pains of compliance. Thus, these powerful voices are to a large degree eliminated as a source of pressure to changes the regs for two reasons. First, they themselves no longer have the incentives to complain, since they personally don't suffer from them. Second, the media can no longer highlight the ridiculousness of the regs by pointing out how a federal judge, for example, was improperly stopped--the only people left to write (namely us) about are not newsworthy. Was this the reason for the proposed change? I don't know. But the above would be at least a result of the change, whether intended or unintended. -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 11:02 AM To: Ip Ip Subject: [IP] YES YES TSA may loosen carry-on, shoe-removal, other rules I for one would boo or make other derogatory comments as the pseudo- elites walk past me at airport security lines. The NOBLES of the US BAH!!! djf Begin forwarded message: From: Mary Shaw <mary.shaw () gmail com> Date: August 13, 2005 8:42:30 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] TSA may loosen carry-on, shoe-removal, other rules Airline pilots but not cabin crew??? Why don't we go all the way and exempt all licensed airplane pilots? The sort of rank elitism displayed here should not, let us hope, sit well with the American public. Mary On 8/13/05, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote: What happened to the excuse for searching and harassing old ladies and babies and handicapped. You know -- maybe someone planted something on them. This is getting to be even more theater djf "The TSA memo proposes to minimize the number of passengers who must be patted down at checkpoints. It also recommends that certain categories of passengers be exempt from airport security screening, such as members of Congress, airline pilots, Cabinet members, state governors, federal judges, high-ranking military officers and people with top-secret security clearances." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/12/ AR2005081201557.html ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as mary.shaw () gmail com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- people/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as hlin () nas edu To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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