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...leaving the US it was the usual, no shoes, no liquid, no matches, no lighters type nonsense. The ban on lighters and matches in response to the alleged 'shoe bomber', the liquid ban due to the alleged plot last year (that was possibly YEARS away from being feasible) in England, and yet as I travelled back from London I got to keep my shoes on, drink and bring through security my water bottle, and yet in the USA where NEITHER one of the aforementioned "threats" started or reached, they STILL have the 'closed barn-door' mentality....
Not surprising really, it took US customs an extra three years to figure out that foot and mouth had been contained and quashed in the UK before they took down their stupid signs about that...
The TSA does a good job of providing the appearance of security, and not much else. I have been picked out a couple of times for some extra screening and everything's been just fine. These folks are doing a thankless job for not much money and if I were in their shoes I'd get attitude too when the eight thousandth person that day lipped off to me...
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