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IronLionZion

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6. Give people a little bit of power and they will abuse it
Sun Aug 19, 2018, 11:36 AM
Aug 2018

TSA is notorious for pulling attractive women and minorities aside for "randomly selected" enhanced screenings by hand.

And I've seen customs officers harass elderly grandmothers with detailed searches of their bags as if they might be dangerous drug smugglers. Because brown or black skin is a sign of drug smuggling.

As bad as we have it in the US, it is even worse when traveling overseas to some countries where they think it would punish Trump somehow to harass Americans.

One would think the airline industry or some other powerful group would stand up for the rights of their customers to avoid losing business from people who get fed up by this abuse.

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