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Subject: [Leica] What would you do if this happened to you?
From: frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)
Date: Sat Apr 3 01:23:12 2004

Me too I'm afraid. I have several close American
friends and used to visit several times per year. I
will not be visiting for anything other than essential
business in the future. Security is extremely
important, but the USA is sadly too late and too wrong
with theirs.
Frank

--- Gerry Walden <gwpics@aol.com> wrote: > With all
this happening, and the fact that
> apparently I will now have to 
> be photographed and finger printed on arrival (not
> to mention the 
> rudeness of the security staff) I think it will be a
> while before I 
> visit the US again!
> 
> Gerry
> 
> -- 
> Gerry Walden LRPS
> www.gwpics.com
> +44 23 8046 3076
> 
> Jim Laurel wrote:
> 
>  > Ted,
>  > This kind of thing really gets to me.  Just
> reading your story gets my
>  > blood boiling.  Obviously, some ham-handed TSA
> screener decided that
>  > your locked M7s constituted a threat.
>  >
>  > What would I do?  Well, there's not much you can
> do.   Under the aegis
>  > of National Security, thousands of half-witted
> high school dropouts
>  > have been reborn as Federal employees in the TSA.
>  There's no
>  > accountability for damage to personal property. 
> And I guarantee that
>  > trying to identify who damaged your cameras while
> at the airport would
>  > simply result in your being detained and
> questioned.  I suppose you
>  > could write letters, and that might get you an
> apology, along with some
>  > platitudes about keeping America safe, but it may
> also get you a
>  > wiretap on your phone and black unmarked
> Suburbans driving by your
>  > place at odd hours of the night.
>  >
>  > My solution is to carry all my gear on board.  I
> pack my camera bag
>  > full, and wear a large camera jacket, which has
> huge pockets.  When the
>  > gate staff complain about the weight of my bag,
> as Virgin Airlines
>  > always seems to, I walk away, stuff things into
> my vest, and try again.
>  >   Last I checked, no airline has a restriction on
> how heavy your
>  > clothing can be.
>  >
>  > We live in a new world for sure, and the threats
> aren't all from the
>  > outside.
>  >
>  > --Jim Laurel
>  >
>  >
>  > On Apr 2, 2004, at 10:26 PM, Ted Grant wrote:
>  >
>  > > What would you do under these circumstances?
>  >
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> 
> -- 
> Gerry Walden LRPS
> www.gwpics.com
> +44 23 8046 3076
> 
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Replies: Reply from phong at doan-ltd.com (Phong) ([Leica] What would you do if this happened to you? - now US travel)
In reply to: Message from gwpics at aol.com (Gerry Walden) ([Leica] What would you do if this happened to you?)