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Old Sep 29, 2006, 12:16 pm
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Originally Posted by GoingAway
If you think security requires you to remove your shoes to walk over a filthy, germ ridden floor OR risk dehydration while you travel OR risk losing your medication or special food (diabetics, those with dietary restrictions, etc) to a TSA on a power trip who doesn't know the rules, then you just don't have a clue.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ (eight TSA thumbs up, one for each opening when the cavity searches begin )

To all new readers coming here because of the CNN or AP stories: welcome.

Read the above GoingAway quote again, slowly. It explains, in one beautiful sentence, the essence of that is going on and why so many here feel the way we do.
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