Michael wrote:

> Doug Warner wrote:

>> (Brent P) wrote:

>>> Subject to search. Didn't say it happened everyday or to everyone.
>>> SUBJECT TO. And a bag being x-rayed is a form of search.

>> And, I can't lock my luggage, otherwise they'll just cut/destroy the
>> lock, and then steal whatever they want. Fortunately, I haven't had
>> to fly anywhere since 9/11. At least, when
>> I drive, I don't have to wait four hours in lines and risk a strip
>> search every time. (My first thought on 9/11 when I realized it was
>> a terrorist attack
>> was: "Here comes the police state". It wasn't long in arriving.)
>> (Some federal snooper will probably read this.)

> But you see, if we won't have those "strip searches", we would have 20
> more 9/11s.

9/11 was a result of our assinine foreign policy (maintaining troops in
Saudi Arabia for absolutely no good reason). Strip searching Americans
does not solve anything.