I don't think there is any alternative to feeling your groin except for having you drop your trou' and letting them have a look see (which I was recently told was not your choice).

>>> roughed up because
>>> * I didn't smile
>>> * I took a picture of ...

Perhaps these modern proclaimed Minutemen down on the U.S. southern border should do nothing more than shout (in Spanish) "You are entering the land of an oppressive regime! You are entering the land of an oppressive regime!" and some of those illegals and wetbacks would turn tails and head back south.

>>> If [Richard Reid] had succeeded we would have never known about shoe bombers ...

Rumors persist that TWA 800 was downed by a missile fired from the ground. Any chance it was downed by a shoe bomber?

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