On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:00:54 GMT, Steve
wrote:


The buggars at Gatwick confiscated my 12.5p lighter (one of eight from
Poundland)... "because it might be a bomb Sir" Once airside I found that
they had inferior non-refillable lighters on sale for £1.25.

I feel a much, much safer citizen now that pseudo-science profiteering
has now got to make its mark on national security and Government thinking.


You would think that being knowledgable would bring power.

In politics it doesn't, the opposite is the case.

Those who have power but not knowledge jealously guard their powers,
whilst ensuring anyone knowledgeable is kept well down the pecking
order as a potential threat.

DG