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Airport security, Kurt Cobain, and the Fourth Amendment

Yesterday Kathy and I flew back into the United States from what turned out to be a wonderful, much-needed and delightfully relaxing vacation - London, Berlin, visiting friends in a national park in northern Germany, then to Barcelona for 9 days of sun, surf, and sightseeing. Our return flight(s) took us from Spain through London, then Toronto before finally making it home to Texas.For our big travel day home I found myself wearing an old t-shirt with an excerpt from the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution emblazoned on the front: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated ...." I didn't wear it to make any particular statement, it just happened to be the last clean shirt in my backpack, which was otherwise jammed with sand-covered laundry, assorted toiletries and tourist acquisitions, plus a small stack of books including several novels that I read while we were gone...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 18, 2010 (boomark / email).