XPost: rec.travel.air   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Larry Gold  wrote:   
   >talk about going over the top!   
      
   We have already gone over the top.   
      
   >Shoes were used by terrorists so it makes perfect sense to check them   
   >and as for x-rays, we have been going through x-ray machines at the airport   
   >for many many years, so as usual you are talking bull.   
      
   Yup, and every year we go through more and more.  I remember back when you   
   could carry automatic rifles on the plane as long as you took the firing pins   
   out and checked them with the pilot.  Now carrying an allen wrench makes you   
   a security risk.   
      
   If someone in 1970 had told me that I would have to get my shoes checked   
   getting on the plane some day, I would have laughed at them.   
      
   >Anything else you suggest will not happen, and if you used your brain you   
   >would know this.   
   >Airlines need to make money, they need passengers, and giving them each a   
   >full body search, and stopping them flying will lose the Airlines and the   
   >government millions.   
      
   The current security provisions are already losing the airlines and the   
   government millions.   
      
   >Each country wants tourists if the things happen as you suggest there will   
   >not be any!   
      
   Soon there may not be.  Certainly tourism here is down by something like   
   70% or so.   
   --scott   
      
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