The Barefoot Future of America
To the Editor:
When I read about the Iraqi journalist who launched a shoe attack against President Bush, I began to worry about how this security breach might eventually affect the average American.
Journalists may have to go shoeless at Presidential press conferences in the future. That doesn’t bother me. What concerns me is airport screening. Currently we merely remove our shoes to be x-rayed for hidden explosives.
But if the shoe itself is per se a potential weapon, will we have to hand over our shoes at the airport check-in counter in exchange for state-approved “flight slippers?” The Northwest Airlines check-in counter may come to look like the front desk of a bowling alley. “Size 10, please.”
-Martin Wishnatsky
Fargo
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