Friday 1 January 2010

Humiliation at Check points 'A Necessary Evil'


Modern air travel has ushered in an evil practice of check ups of the paranoid quality,which can have no limits.

We who are in the rural areas have heard of smuggling in precious metals or may be an occasional addictive chemical in trunks.but not blasters to maim and kill.

To be patted and x rayed sounds a humiliation of the worst kind,when the ones who could be up to mischief are allowed to travel with no passports or escorted with high styled executives, dressed in smart suits to bring on more rules and safety precautions.

How would the children take it?

I don’t know how the ones who travel so often take this humiliation, when we cant even tolerate an accidental brush of a stranger into our space and body.

Is this what is called as “giving up of freedom and privacy for security”

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