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Friday, March 14, 2003:

Baggage screener leaves editorial comment

Seth Goldberg, a 41-year-old New Jersey man, said on Thursday he believes a screener with the Transportation Security Administration slipped a note into his suitcase before a March 2 flight out of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

"Don't appreciate your anti-American attitude!" was neatly hand written on the standard notice TSA places inside all the bags that screeners open.

Okay, so we've got to put up with them going through our bags--I don't like it, but I'll put up with it because I understand the reasons--but now they're leaving us editorial comments on the things we pack? Are we giving up all our rights to any kind of privacy? (And yes, I understand this was one baggage screener leaving a personal comment, not a government policy.) It's embarrassing and unnerving enough to know that any not only the bags you carry on, but now the bags you check, can be searched by anyone at any time, but at least you had the illusion of some sort of privacy.

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