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Shashi Tharoor is the author of the text which is called Spread Your Legs and Smile. The text is about his experiences with flight from he was a 6 years old boy till the time after the 9. September. Shashi Tharoor is a frequent flier and dissatisfied with the tightening of the security in the airports. Once he could stroll relaxed aboard the plane and make sure his baggage was locked. However, you now have to leave the bag open for examination, be exposed for frisking on intimate places and be selected at random for more thorough secondary screening just because of your ethnically background or your entertainment value. Each time he has a solution to the complication like wearing slip-on shoes and does not bring nail clippers some new complications arise.
The 3 texts contain various attitudes to the airport security. The general attitude of text
3 is that the security in the American airports has not an international security standard which it might have. The author thinks it is too easy to get round the security obstacles “U.S airport security is a far cry from the security checks at Ben-Gurion Airport and airports throughout Europe” (ll. 54-55). Text 2s attitude to airport security is that the U.S. government has not learned from the terror assassination and does not take the necessary measures to reform the security and prevent another terror assassination: “Were creating the illusion of security only where the travelling public can see… Meanwhile, the part that they cant see, nothing is being done” (ll.45-46).
Text 1 and 3 both shares the attitude that the security staff does not treat the passengers with courtesy and respect: “This degrading and embarrassing process went on for several minutes in the open area…” (l. 51, text 3) and: “But must the most intimate items be held up to dubious inspection, accompanied by loud calls to supervisors?” (ll. 23-24, text 1).
Compared with text 2 and 3 the attitude to the volume of airport security is another in text 1. In text 1 the author thinks the security has been too much tightened and travel by plane has become a clumsy affair.
The statement says: “Frisking the flight crews in front of the passengers is
downright foolish. It only makes the passengers feel unsafe”.