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"Ali Hopkins" <fn62@dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> A big part of that problem (leaving aside the paranoia engendered by the
> TSA and gummint) is down to the employment of airport "security" and
> associated low level immigration people in the US who are paid minimum
> wage, with wholly inadequate training carried out by rote. I've travelled
> a heck of a lot, both business and travel, pretty well world wide. The
> security people outside the US are polite, capable and still thorough and
> careful - the Heathrow mob especially so. The ones at LAX in particular,
> over the last three years, have been dire. I think there was always a
> touch of "why are we letting these people in" but it's got dreadful.
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> I liked the attitude at Vancouver; a beaming smile, and the words "Hi
> ma'am, let's keep you safe".
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Nice post, Ali ! Yes, I totally agree, and one of the people who had the
*biggest* reservations about "minimum wage rent-a-cops" on port security
duties was Richard A. Clarke (former Clinton adviser), in his splendid book,
Against All Enemies. | 
