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Monday, October 20, 2003
HmmmA Maryland kid named Nathaniel Heatwole is the main suspect in the Southwest Airlines box-cutter mystery. If he's guilty, and the feds lock him up, something only sort of like justice will have been done. He conducted an embarrassing hack on our airline-security system, which is supposed to be a lot more secure since the government took over. Obviously, it's not. I had a Swiss Army knife confiscated by guards at Oakland Airport just after the new security people were hired last year. The guards were confident, efficient, cool-headed, and stern. They made me feel furtive and guilty, even though it was an honest mistake. Jen and I had simply left the knife in the backpack after a camping trip a few weeks earlier. I was impressed and a little intimidated by the new security regime until we got to L.A. It turned out that we'd brought two knives camping — and the second one was still in same pocket of the same backpack, undiscovered by the guards.
This semi-permanent Radio Free Mike cover story is about another weird, but still unsolved, premonition of airline disaster.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
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