Airport Detention

You know, I've had my share of enthusiastic searches at the airport but i never mind nor complain because i figure people are doing their job and if that's what it takes to be safe, i can deal with a minor inconvenience, but after reading this story in the LA Times today, I've decided that, well, perhaps I should start complaining because despite my putting up with this crap, our government is inept and here is why: check out this story in the LA Times:

From the LA Times opinion page today, June 13, 2006

in a bootleg T-shirt
The author mingled at madrasas and hung with Hezbollah, but that's not why Homeland Security picked him up.
By Ray LeMoine, Ray LeMoine is coauthor, with Jeff Neumann and Donovan Webster, of "Babylon by Bus," an account of LeMoine and Neumann's experiences working for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.
June 13, 2006

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-lemoine13jun13,0,1507648.story?coll=la-home-commentary