Right now I am way more concerned with the way US citizens are being
treated just trying to get on an airplane in a US airport. I had to go
to Chicago last Tuesday. In front of me in the line was a 70+ couple
and a family with 3 kids under 10 headed for Orlando. Security made the
kids take off their shoes and ripped their back packs apart
checking for bombs and the old lady spent 10 minutes getting all
but strip searched. Meanwhile an obvious middle eastern guy complete
with long black beard and head scarf in the next line was waved on through.

These Home Land "Security" people have got to start getting real. They
need to stop wasting their time and ours and go back to profiling.

Oops! That would be politically incorrect. But it would sure save one
hell of a lot of time and money and actually make things more secure and
that won't happen until Tom Ridge gets his head out of Ashcroft's butt
and looks around.

I have very little good to say about Israeli policy but at the Tel Aviv
airport, probably the most threatened airport in the world, I was less
hassled and felt more secure than I have in any American airport.



The flying that I've done recently has seemed to be a bit better. Still think
they could use a bit of common sense, though.

I wonder how that middle eastern guy with the beard and head scarf would have
fared at the Tel Aviv airport.....

John Martin