>...Take off your belt, sir, it's setting off the metal detector. Please step back through. Thank you. Please step BACK and walk towards me again. Thank you and have a nice flight. Kafka must be smiling merrily in his grave.
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>We constantly speculate whether something like 9/11 will happen again. Is there any question? Is there any question at all? Look what they've done to us already.

The question is there. It says "will this be reduced to a bearable level, or will it get worse?".

Flying once used to be a pleasant thing. They had stewardesses, who really took stewardship of the flight. The attendants just attend, as if an evening school. And one could smoke in the rear rows - the air flows from nose to tail anyway.