OT- Re: World Trade Crash and a bit about computers - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

12 Sep 2001

...
  Keep in mind, Arthur, that you can't have it both
ways.  You've got to choose
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  between security and freedom.  I think what Sellam is
driving at is that every
...
  externally imposed effort to ensure your security
impairs someone's freedoms.
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  Perhaps we don't all see it that way, but it could
be argued.  Nonetheless, I
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  don't feel that letting someone look in my
carry-on luggage to make sure I don't
...
  have guns, knives, bombs, etc. is a reasonable
infringement, partiticularly
 since I've effectively agreed to allow this invasion of my privacy as part of
...
  the contract associated with air travel. 
This will certainly lead to fewer men packing women's underwear in their
suitcases, not to mention various flesh-tone plastic toys... 

Should anyone else care to enumerate the "legal things I'd hate to get caught
with in my suitcase", please reply privately...

-dq