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TSA Looks to VA and DoD for “Mental Defectives”

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I guess it shouldn't surprise me. I'm sure some agency knows that I rented the DVD of Fahrenheit 9/11 from the video store and, at the library, checked out a copy of It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. But, the idea of them having my medical records to see if I should be kept off an airplane because I MIGHT be a "mental defective" makes me want to go back to the library and check out a copy of 1984.

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Larry Scott served four years in the U.S. Army with overseas tours as a Broadcast Journalist in Korea and the Azores and a stateside tour as a Broadcast Journalism Instructor at the Defense Information School (DINFOS). He was awarded DOD's First Place Thomas Jefferson Award for (more...)
 
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