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Old Dec 5, 2005 | 11:51 am
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Originally Posted by PatrickHenry1775
That is our government's fault for not spending money on available technology that would actually make our borders more secure. But such technology is not nearly the effective PR that 40,000-plus screeners looking through bags and patting down passengers provides to the occasional traveler.
That's correct.

Technology systems -- especially more transparent ones -- just don't sell well to the once-a-year traveller who are comforted by seeing a "show of force".
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