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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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