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Old May 14, 2005 | 8:44 pm
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Originally Posted by PatrickHenry1775
I have to be honest, I did not coin this term. FWAAA should receive the credit for this perfectly descriptive term. This link http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...ghlight=kabuki
should connect to the thread, regarding a terminal dump at PDX, in which FWAAA introduced the term in November 2004. If we could popularize this phrase, so that the media picks up on the concept, we would have performed a great service for our country, from the perspectives of fiscal sanity, actual security, and most importantly our freedoms to travel and be secure in our persons against unreasonable searches (4th Amendment).
Thanks. That was before I came here, so your use of it was the first time I saw that.

Isn't calling it Kabuki security offensive to the Kabuki actors? Surely they could do a better job ...
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