Endangered travellers
From Mr Martin Meyers Sir: As usual, Mark Steyn ('Stop frisking crippled nuns'. I June) has hit the nail right on the head in his article about so-called security at American airports. In February, my wife and I were returning to the UK, via Amsterdam, from Logan airport in Boston. We first had to undergo a preliminary manual search of our bags, which we had dragged a long distance from the check-in desk. During this search, our travel tickets and boarding passes were removed from us and then not returned when the searchers had finished. The officials had given our tickets to another couple. The real humiliation came when we were selected for a special search at the boarding gate, where we even had to remove our shoes. I should point out that my wife and myself are in our sixties. What brought me to boiling-point was that during our ordeal I observed at least four swarthy young men with bulging knapsacks being passed through on to the plane without even a perfunctory frisk.
Security at US airports always was and always will be a joke. If the plane that you travel on is not hijacked or blown up, it is simply because the terrorists weren't interested in that particular flight.
Martin Meyers
Perth, Scotland
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