TSA stealing? That's a new one for me though I can't, in all honesty, say it doesn't happen. I CAN say it's never happened to me, my wife, my mother, my brothers, my sisters, my in-laws, my friends, and I can go on an on.........

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Profile what needs to be profiled to keep the rest of us law abiding folks safe. If Americans need profiling, by all means do it. If middle easterners need profiling, by all means do it. There's no such thing as "blind profiling" in law enforcement or there wasn't when I was in it.....you profile what needs to be profiled.

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True on the first assumption and somewhat true on the 2nd.....amazing what a twist of wording can produce, isn't it? :)

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You're the one who's right, IMO. If one doesn't bring up politically related stuff, it normally won't be answered in a political way. If you bring up political views, there's no doubt in my mind it will be answered in the oposing political view that the subject was brought up in. Pretty simple to me.....

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No offense, my friend, but have you seen the stats on UK (or UK educated) folks involved with the problems with the new wave of jihadists in the middle east lately? The only reason I bring that up is because of what you say in the post I'm replying to. Cast no stones when you may have them tossed back at you :)

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I don't fly often, anymore, but I've only had 1 full body scan in the last 5 years and during that period, I've flown more than I had during the previous 20 years. I guess some of that scanning may come from where one lives, perhaps?

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After being in banking for 20 years and law enforcement before then, I've got to disagree with you on profiling. In my opinion, profile every group out there who has made it a point to do America harm. On the other hand, why profile American grandma's from the heartland? There's a small, select group of folks who wish harm on our country and if we have to profile all from that select group, I'm all for it.

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Excellent reason to be associated with FlightAware!

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My uncle was on that flight and it's still hard to deal with even after all these years.

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It's hard to make any sort of comment after reading that.

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