I Am Not a Terrorist

Refuse to be denied your luggage when you’re running late or fearing the airline will misplace it at your connection point. Refuse to be inconvenienced, hungry, and crowded into airplanes like cattle into boxcars. Other countries (yes, I travel internationally) don’t have our security restrictions; they have much smarter ones, procedures that make sense rather than instill fear in the public. Why keep people afraid, you wonder? How else do you keep them under control?

Stand up, American travelers, and let it be known you are not terrorists. I don’t say this lightly; I’ll practice what I preach by publishing it here. Let them come and get me, let them investigate all they want, I have nothing to hide. Because I am not a terrorist. Sadly, I can’t say the same for “them”.