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For your safety or control?

I believe the September ’05 “Boarding Pass” column has inadvertently pointed out the truth of the TSA (Transportation Security Administration): the TSA is not so much about passenger “safety” as it is about control and power over a, now, much less free citizenry.

What a sad state of affairs for a people founded in the belief of liberty!

I recall this quote from C.S. Lewis: Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

JOE MELCHER
Reno, NV

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