{"id":38546,"date":"2013-08-22T17:31:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T23:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/22\/i-dont-feel-safer.html"},"modified":"2013-08-22T17:31:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T23:31:33","slug":"i-dont-feel-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/22\/i-dont-feel-safer.html","title":{"rendered":"I don't feel safer"},"content":{"rendered":"
Is there any particular reason this couldn't happen to any innocent person?<\/p>\n

Heck, I think of a few Christmasses ago when Margie's broken ankle meant she was in a cast, which swiped as positive for explosives when we went through the TSA checkpoint at DIA. \u00a0I remember how resistant we were to having them remove the strap-on cast because her doctor had instructed against it, until we finally got through to the doctor's office to get it okayed. And I wonder — if we'd been a bit more brown, or had an odd name, or if the cast had not tested negative on re-sampling as mysteriously as it as it tested positive … what would the rest of our<\/i> day looked like?<\/div>\n

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Don’t Fly During Ramadan<\/a>
\n A couple of weeks ago, I was scheduled to take a trip from New York (JFK) to Los Angeles on JetBlue. Every year, my family goes on a one-week pilgrimage, where we put our work on hold and spend time…\n <\/p>\n


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Is there any particular reason this couldn't happen to any innocent person? Heck, I think of a few Christmasses ago when Margie's broken ankle meant she was in a cast, which swiped as positive for explosives when we went through the TSA checkpoint at DIA. \u00a0I remember how resistant we were to having them remove … Continue reading “I don't feel safer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3596,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/21\/a_real_bird_of.html","url_meta":{"origin":38546,"position":0},"title":"A real Bird of Prey","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-Oct-02 3:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Sweet. 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