From June Beslievre.
THE moment you step inside an airport you lose all your human rights and dignity.

How many suspected terrorists do we have in Jersey? It took three security personnel at Heathrow Airport to stop a Jersey lady from showing her gun in case she frightened fellow travellers – even though it was only a printed image on the front of a book!

Now we have a JEP columnist delayed at Liverpool Airport because her walking stick might be hollow – as most modern ones are. She should have clobbered the idiot who wanted to prevent her taking it on the plane.

Then there’s the senior citizen in Jersey who was asked to remove her scarf. No doubt someone thought she had a bomb around her neck, even though she was only going to Guernsey.

As for the lady who was made to take her bits and pieces out of her plastic bag and put them in a smaller one, because the size didn’t conform to regulations, the mind boggles.

Are we seriously supposed to believe that all the above are legitimate anti-terrorism moves or is it just a smoke screen to discriminate against women. Or perhaps there are men out there who have also come across similar absurdities when going through airport security.

One man I heard of in the UK was told to take his T-shirt off because they didn’t like the logo – again they said it looked like a gun. He didn’t want to travel topless so turned it inside out before being allowed on the plane.

When is it all going to stop? What started out as a terror precaution has now changed to travellers being terrorised by the airlines who can dictate what we wear and what we read, and if, like many elderly people, you’ve only got a modern walking stick, having to fork out for a ‘proper’ one.

What next, not allowing anyone onboard without a box of tissues in case they sneeze?
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