Freewrite Day 658 Coercion
Here is wiki on coercion:
Coercion is the practice of forcing another party to act in an involuntary manner by use of threats or force. It involves a set of various types of forceful actions that violate the free will of an individual to induce a desired response
Having just traveled through immigration checkpoints 4 times in the last 5 days, I feel acquainted with coercion.
Airports are places that make the 99.9999% of good people jump through hoops continually to try to catch the 0.00000001% who are paid by big bad guys to cause trouble and rarely do.
I’m not a believer in terrorism other than that of the governmental variety. They certainly have a way of frightening people in airports these days.
One of the places I passed through has some of the full-body scanners someone is making a lot of money on selling. I avoid those and go through the old fashioned xray scanners and try not to set them off.
I use a scottevest to keep my money and passport safe when traveling. Something in it sets off the machines so I remove it and let it go on the belt with the luggage. I have learned to take it off WAY early and far back in the line. In SE Asia they do not want me to take it off. In the US I had to take it off along with my shoes.
We do not remove shoes in SE Asia since that shoe-bomber was a big old fakety-fake-faker and only Westerners believe you can blow up a plane with your shoes.
But today I still got to see a little 6 year old girl get wanded when something she was wearing set off a machine. Whew! I feel so safe now. Coercion is awesome in action.
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Safe travels! I watched a person slip right through and shook my head in amazement in Florida once.
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I personally believe it's all in an effort to keep the country safe.
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Write, express yourself, be cool.
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