Hitch on airport security

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I joked about TSA body-cavity searches before, and Christopher Hitchens has a few words on the subject here. He notes a 2009 incident where "the lethal charge of PETN [plastic explosive] was concealed in the would-be assassin's rectum:"

In order for us to take them even remotely seriously, our Homeland Security officials should by now have had no alternative but to announce a series of random body-cavity searches some months ago.

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