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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 9:58 am
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Originally Posted by Custardthecat
What I was trying to illustrate was the behavoiral aspect / reason for being at an airport issues perspectives and what concepts are seen as reasonable to enforce. I provided the UK example in order for you to draw perspective as this seems to be devolved from what is considered reasonable behavoir at airports here. The actual laws in UK / US are not the primary point.
Actually, that's precisely the relevant hinge. Your perspective belies a position of assumed guilt whereas the context under consideration -- a U.S. airport governed by U.S. law -- the reasonable and operating presumption is one of innocence.

suspicion is pretty much a universal concept.
Flatly untrue.

Originally Posted by Custardthecat
The 'airliner plot' originating here (2007 I think) would have been catastophic but for intervention.
August of 2006, btw. While conjecture about would've been has little argumentative merit, I must give you snaps for having the cojenes to take a swan dive into TS/S within minutes of registering here just four days ago.

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