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taking off my shoes at the airport

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Calgary, 2002.05.12

It finally happened. They demanded that I take off my shoes for inspection at the airport. Kind of a silly request, when the metal detector failed to pick up my belt buckle or watch, I thought. On the next hop, they didn't even check my largest camera lens. At neither step did they look inside the large zipper compartment on my camera bag. I think it's all for show.

rand()m quote

Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.

—-Benito Mussolini