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slightlv

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1. I haven't flown since 911..
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 01:41 PM
Dec 8

not because I'm afraid, but because of how militarized it all got. From guys with guns walking airport corridors to TSA to you name it. And then, I got titanium in my back AND a titanium hip replacement. I have so much metal that I set off the alarm at a Marshalls dept store going INTO the store! Although I carry an official card about all the metal in my body I have no doubt it wouldn't get me anywhere with TSA. So screw it! I just happen not to have the money to fly, anyway... but the government DID take that one right and liberty of freedom of movement away from me way back when... when no one was thinking about it like that, except for a few of us unafraid dirty hippies, fighting to hang on to what should be part of the American Dream.

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