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Re:What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control... by rue on Sunday September 12, 2010 @07:28AM (#1683471)
The statement was not a polite version of the original. It offered additional information.

You may not see any problems with it, nor agree with the article's assertions. That is your choice. Equally the "dick" is allowed to tell them it is none of their business - though I think my (slightly more) polite version would be better.

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Re:What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control... by points on Sunday September 12, 2010 @07:41AM (#1683486)
>> "Equally the "dick" is allowed to tell them it is none of their business"

And as has been stated elsewhere, the security personel are allowed to detain them, submit them to body cavity searches and be equally dickish.

It goes both ways...

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Re:What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control... by gizmomagico on Sunday September 12, 2010 @10:30AM (#1683699)
> It goes both ways...

Actually it usually goes only one way..

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Re:What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control... by points on Sunday September 12, 2010 @11:16AM (#1683771)
Agreed. It's usually the public acting like dicks to security staff. They're doing a job. They're providing security theatre so that idiots feel safer.
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Re:What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control... by gizmomagico on Monday September 13, 2010 @01:54AM (#1685712)
The security theater was introduced after 9/11, for whatever real reason, and I think it would be really difficult to find evidence of the public actually asking for it. It's strange you claimed it did.

It's pretty difficult to believe it makes anyone feel safer, and if it does, it's comparable to believing in "change you can believe in".

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