On 10/30/2005 8:53 AM Jeff Hacker plucked Senior Frog's Magic Twanger
and said:
>"Henry" wrote in message
>news:1h5717u.tcxojaobbs0xN%henry999@eircom.net...
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>>Last August the chief of the TSA was replaced. In a couple of public
>>speeches, the new man promised to make air security more reasonable in
>>regard to ordinary passengers, by eliminating overly-strict rules and
>>curbing capricious or over-zealous agents.
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>>Have things actually got better since then, or were these just more
>>lies?
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>>There don't seem to be as many horror stories here nowadays as there
>>were, for example, in '02 and '03, but is that because conditions have
>>improved or simply because travellers have become inured to the abuses?
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>I'm not sure if I'd call them "abuses," but my take is the latter. You
>still feel like you're being strip-searched (i.e., remove coats, shoes,
>etc.), computers out of cases, etc., but the TSA employees seem to be trying
>to seem "nice."
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>>cheers,
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>>Henry
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TSA may make you feel like you're being strip searched; travel to Israel
and you won't feel you *will* be strip searched. However indignant as
you might feel, Israel has the whole security thing down. They'll
search your car before you even get to the airport! I don't think you
will find US citizens and foreign visitors cooperating with *that*
without groaning and whining.
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