Reply #7: This bullshit has to stop.

[Kutjara]

Airlines and airports have always been the employers of choice for petty people with superiority complexes. They just love the uniforms and the control they have over other people's lives. It's closest they can get to the thrills that concentration camp guards used to get.

The 'War on Terror' has elevated airport staff from pathetic annoyance to dangerous intrusion. Nowhere in the West do ordinary citizens have fewer rights or more curtailed liberties. Nowhere else can the word of a flunky be sufficient to deny people their contractual and human rights. Citizens are herded, searched, questioned, denied passage, deprived of their possessions and humiliated, without recourse to any legal remedy.

It's about time the Little Mussolinis who rule their little Airport Empires were made to understand that they are not the final court of appeal in all matters. These guys, and their employers, need to be dragged into court and sued for every penny in their pockets, as many times as is necessary to remind them that they operate under the same laws as the rest of us.