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I saw this news elsewhere. A Google news search should turn
it up right quick.

Try it now -- I dropped a quote.

The real stuff is here, at the Evansville newspaper site:<br>
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link 1<br>
link 2<br>
link 3<br>
link 4<br>
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Their site has one or two more articles, with similar content, just slightly different wording. Do a search for "airport" or something.<br>
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Have fun... If anyone else finds a link to a national story on this, please post it here.<br>
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--TreeHugger<br>

Well, Canada already issued a warning about travel to the US. Maybe the Europeans will stay home, too, and the Bush Empire can reign in solitary splendor.

Edited by author 10-31-2002 04:36 PM
While I'm not brave enough to try her solution, I can understand her frustration. After one or two wanding passes, trying to put up with what normally would be considered "inappropriate touching," with the explorer smiling or chatting away at a time you'd expect embarrassed silence, you really do just want to figure out how to make it end.

[And you can't just ignore their chatting because their "well, how did you like our city? Where did you stay?" questions are asked under color of law. What's wrong with a "I'm sorry, but recent events mean that part of our jobs now includes having to search people. I'm sorry, but you'll have to be searched to get on your plane. Now I'm going to search you...<mostly silent search>...Now I'm done with the search. Sorry for the legally mandated inconvenience." (i.e. enough with this fake asking for permission. If it is an order, make it an order.)]

After discovering that underwire sets off their machines, I thought I'd switch to zero-metal dressing. Bad choice- if they don't find anything they get frustrated and do extra wanding. Now I know to wear just enough to give them something- earings, for example.

If she gets a jury trial, the government will attempt to have all men or non-flyers on the jury: women who've flied recently will acquit her in a second.

By the way, the links I posted (below) have a lot more details, and are much more readable than the Babelfish translation of the German article.

I'm hoping this one gets thrown out of court. It's absurd to hold a foreign tourist as a hostage of sorts, over something like this.

Oh, sorry about the html tags. I wasn't aware that QuickTopic would ignore those.

I'm planning to keep checking the Evansville news site to see how this goes. Strange that the national press hasn't picked it up yet.

Many different perspectives on this story from Google News.

Wim, actually it looks like a news feed (AP) has picked it up, as many of the perspectives are identical, including CNN's page.

And C the G: "flied"?

"When we tell you to take your clothes off, you won't pass the checkpoint until you take your clothes off. but if you take them off a moment before, you're going to jail for a long time.

As Wired recently described it "gate rape" by these inspectors is pretty real for some folks. A while back I had a similar experience without the same outcome. At DFW returning from an international flight I had to go thru security. The guard barely spoke english. I had on a belt with plastic buckle, but my Carharts have a brass zipper and a metal button. Picture this: I'm standing on the rubber pad, the security guy is waving the wand at my crotch almost touching my pants, three national guard warriors (two guys and a gal) are about 15 feet away watching. The security guard mumbles something and then motions at my belt buckle (remember -- plastic) so I un-snap it. Keeps waving my crotch. He motions again, so what the heck, I un-button and un-zip my pants and let them drop. By now he seems a bit uncomfortable. So, I pull open the waste band of my shorts to let him see there was not much there.... sigh. By now he is mumbling in some dialect of central or south american spanish and waving for me to pull my pants up. The three warriors are laughing. I am embarrassed and pissed, but go onto my flight home.

Since that time, I have been vocal about stating that I am volunteering for any and all of these searches under duress and that I DO NOT FEEL ANY SAFER FLYING. The last time was last Saturday in Detroit. Amazing how people looked at me as I said those words waiting for me to be hauled off to detention.

At least the new "federal security folks" seem to speak english better. And at least they are not yet wearing brown shirts.

Sorry for the long-ish post. But, this whole process, in my not so humble opinion, is no laughing matter -- it is the result of political white wash and hysterical witch hunts that are effectively chipping away at our personal liberties.

But the least the planes run on time...

Good ol' USA: bravely defending the freedom to be fondled at airports by Wallmart rejects. Go Bush.

It should be illegal to be French. The topless part is just icing on the let-them-eat cake.