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Once, they’d have burned it

And we keep wondering how many affronts to our dignity as citizens we’ll continue to put up with in the interest of fake “security” . . . against, for example, the bra-the-could-be-a-weapon.

The Spokane Spokesman Review is reporting on an incident at the Coeur d’Alene federal courthouse, when a wire in a woman’s bra set off a metal detector at the front door. The Bonners Ferry resident said, “When I walked through, the gentleman said, “‘Do you have an underwire bra on?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ He said, ‘You have to remove it.’ ”

So she did, then and there, “while her husband tried to shield her from view of others in the crowded lobby by holding up his coat.”

And we can all feel so much safer now.

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