Originally Posted by Bart
When you have a government that sponsors summary executions of its citizens, or one that deliberately starves segments of its population for economic value, or one that corrals ethnic groups for detention, then you have a truer perspective.
Taking off your shoes at an airport security point doesn't carry the same weight.
But how about "papers, please" for this poor kid?
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=222
Supposedly not on the list, but yet TSA gave him a letter to help him when he gets harassed at the airport.