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Old Jul 23, 2013 | 6:08 am
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Originally Posted by spades097
The security of your private car and the security of public transportation are two entirely different things.
The airlines which I fly within the US are as private as the cars in which I am driven within the US. Yet when flying within the US, DHS tries to extort money and information from passengers merely to be a passenger treated no worse than any other passenger paying for the contracted transport service with a private sector provider of the service.

We don't have US government-owned airlines in the US that provide me with commercially-scheduled passenger flight service. When was the last time you flew within the US on a US government-owned, commercially-scheduled airline?
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