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Monday, April 22, 2002


Gate Rape

The term pilots and air crews have coined to describe being searched by airport security.

Culled from this Time page.

More choice verbiage:

"I can kill you with a magazine, a soda can, a compact disk, a wine bottle, and a fork," he told an audience of airline pilots.

Then Messina, a stocky former cop with a Fu Manchu mustache, began thrusting a 6-in. gold object into the air. "But this is the best!" he boasted. "I bought it yesterday at John F. Kennedy Airport." In his hand was a dagger-sized Statue of Liberty with a knife-sharp torch and crown.

Not to mention the threat of terrorists with martial arts training -- no weapon requirement there.

Safety is an illusion.