09 Jan 2004
Terror Travel

There a very funny article over at Salon entitled "Five o'clock shadow? You're a marked man!".

It's the hilarious acccount of a traveller caught up in the terror alert in Mexico City, trying to get to LA.

While funny, there's a very serious side to this. As the author (Andrew Leonard) says in closing:

But if you think my jocularity is out of place in discussing security measures designed to prevent attacks such as those on the World Trade Center, then think again. In the world we're now living in, we are all being treated as if each and every one of us is a terrorist until proven innocent. This is hard enough for the travel industry to handle financially. How are the rest of us going to cope with it psychologically, as the century winds on?

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