Free to Eat Applesauce
This past weekend our rugby team flew to Minnesota for a match. I had brought a couple of granola bars and a small package of applesauce for a snack for when we landed. Then we went through security and the bastards took my applesauce. Apparently applesauce is a threat to national security as it is a highly unstable compound. I asked if I could just eat it there, and the guy said, "not here but if you want I can take you to the front and you could have it there." Yeah like I want to go through this joke of an operation again. So the next time I want applesauce on a plane I have a couple of strategies. First I will just bring a whole apple and smash it myself. That way our country will be safe. Or I could just bring a baby with me. Then the applesauce would go right through, 'It's for the baby,' I'd say (because if terrorists wanted to have an applesauce bomb -even typing it seem ridiculous- they would never think of using a baby a great diversion). I understand that there was a thwarted plot to blow up planes with some liquids, but they caught the guys. Let me repeat... they caught the guys. Therefore the current security measures are good enough to discover and prevent such activities, but just in case why don't we take away the right of eating and drinking to airplane passengers. Some may claim that I shouldn't be mad at the people who are trying to protect me and should be mad at the terrorists. Of course I am mad at the terrorist, but in this case they were not the ones to take my applesauce. Is it really worth it? Instead of having applesauce and being 99.99997% safe, I don't have applesauce and am 99.99998% safe. I think that that is a risk I am willing to take because I really do like applesauce, but I think I like my freedom a little bit more.
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