From: Mark Bock (markbvt_at_adelphia.net)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 10:51:37 PDT
> Not that I'm terribly ungreatful for the new-found sense of urgency, but
>making a mother drink her own breast-milk to prove it's not white-colored
>poison in a baby-bottle is just absurd.. This reportedly actually
>happened. Just think, if it actually *had* been a fast-acting nerve agent
>that would diffuse rapidly (it'd have to be, unless someone wanted to
>somehow get it into the plane's air system), it probably would have
>injured a great number of people in the terminal..
I'm convinced that most of those types of incidents are a result of
rent-a-cops abusing their perceived power. It's unfortunate that some
of the new security regs have made it easier for security personnel
to be jackasses.
--mark
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