Sometimes racial {or other grouping) profiling is very appropriate. Like it
or not, we are in a state of war so get used to it. All will not be fair.
Why do people insist on injecting geopolitical views on this list? /jmac
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Walt Wayman
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:30 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Photography as a hazardous avocation
Without commentary or opinion, I offer the following link regarding airport
security, or the lack thereof.
http://www.womenswallstreet.com/WWS/article_landing.aspx?titleid=1&articleid
=711
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message from Jim Brokaw : --------------
> on 7/14/04 8:51 AM, Alienspecimen at alienspecimen@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > The photographers are not the only ones targeted...this is a really
> > embarrassing incident:
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3892657.stm
> >
> > Boris
> >
> > Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
>
> It certainly seems that if the 'security people' there were US security
> people they could have intervened with the airport TSA security people to
> avoid this unnecessary aggravation of a senior diplomat of a friendly
allied
> power. This would be the equivalent of a former Secretary of Defense
getting
> the full drill at the Paris airport -- wouldn't that stir up a fuss...! I
> suppose if they searched Rumsfield they could always look for brains as
> well... some of his recent policy decisions seem to support the
allegations
> that he hasn't any. Do I feel he's part of the problem with this
> administration? Why yes, I do. Is that a big problem? Well yes, it might
be.
> Should he have had an end-game plan before entering Iraq? Well, any wise
> warrior would have. Is his habit of asking and answering his own questions
> very annoying? Well yes, I think it is.
> --
>
> Jim Brokaw
> OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
>
>
>
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