Hi, this is Hank Hennigraph, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible

Insompson broadcast with another Hank unplug short. My son David sent me an article from the American mind,

an article titled Life in the Airline Terminal,

an article written by Spencer Claven.

I read it and I thought,

how very profound.

He writes,

walking through an airport these days is like digging through sedimentary layers of useless government regulations.

The TSA security line is where every hair-brained bureaucratic policy goes to die,

except they don't die.

They sit, fossilized in horrible, suspended animation, crust upon crust of outdated protection against

misunderstood crises. Here's what happens when you board a plane. You have to put on your COVID-19 mask as you approach the first security checkpoint where you'll be

asked to take off your mask to verify your identity.

Then you put on your mask, but take off your belt and shoes preparing to irradiate your body, your possessions in in x-ray

scanners. If anything seems amiss, you will be apologetically groped by some poor functionary.

Both of you will be too embarrassed by the indecency of it all to look one another in the eye, and the agent will

be so eager to get the whole thing over with that if you really were hiding anything,

he certainly wouldn't find it. But you're not hiding anything. And yet all the same,

if you forgot a bottle of water or toiletry kit in your bag, it will

be emptied and thrown away because officials apprehended a man named Abdullah Ahmed Ali 15 years

ago.

Ali intended to make an explosive inside an empty, soft drink bottle.

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