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Old Jan 6, 2011 | 6:14 pm
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Originally Posted by nachtnebel
Great post and many thanks. One comment on this thought though:


The enhanced patdowns, the gropes, need to go, period! Even if the process is changed so WE never have to undergo this, let's not forget our fellow citizens in wheelchairs, with prosthetics they can't remove, or with metal parts they cannot remove. Now that we are aware, we cannot just give ourselves a pass but consign them back to this indignity.
And another +1 from someone with metal implants.

It's not coincidence that my decision to never fly again to the US occurred when I had a hip replacement. Other countries can clear me through security without the NoS or groping, so why can't the USA?
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