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thenewgreen  ·  4356 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Say goodbye to "naked image" body scanners

I travel a good bit, I often get pulled aside and searched when going through security at airports. I don't have a problem with it, I'm young and I look like I fit the "profile". Here is me looking menacing. -Back in college I had a long scraggly, hippy beard and I looked like a young bin-ladin. I'm not arabic but I look it and I take no offense to being searched. It is what it is. I'm all for effective security, so long as it is quick and done courteously, which mine always has been. And so long as I still make my flight.

What I didn't care for were the racial slurs I got after 911. One time a guy brushed passed me in line and said, "pardon me Mohammed". -That didn't go over well.