I've been psyching myself up for this for a while and was committed to opt out even if it meant missing a flight. Fortunately it didn't come to that. But the whole experience just made me feel worse for the people for whom opting out really isn't an option under any circumstances.
I keep hoping we've hit the high water mark with this nonsense and will see the reaction take hold, but I continue to be disappointed. The one move I noticed in the other direction was signs saying that under-12s and over-75s no longer have to remove their shoes. What happened to the overhearted rhetoric of "the moment we stop strip-searching children is the moment al-Qaeda begins putting kids strapped with explosives onto our planes"?
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Date: 2012-06-15 05:43 pm (UTC)I keep hoping we've hit the high water mark with this nonsense and will see the reaction take hold, but I continue to be disappointed. The one move I noticed in the other direction was signs saying that under-12s and over-75s no longer have to remove their shoes. What happened to the overhearted rhetoric of "the moment we stop strip-searching children is the moment al-Qaeda begins putting kids strapped with explosives onto our planes"?