Susan Brown Campbell This is Me

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1. 1. OA2 | View topic - How do you feel about this?

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   Published on: 3/12/2004   Last Visited: 3/20/2006

   WASHINGTON - Susan Brown Campbell doesn't consider herself a threat to the friendly skies.
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   I'm no threat to the government," said Campbell, the deputy director of the National Immigration Law Center (search), who was flying home to Los Angeles following a business trip.
   
   She said the steak knife, used for a lunch of apples and cheese, was confiscated with no further incident at the Baltimore-Washington International Airport (search). She was surprised to receive a notice with the $300 fine in the mail weeks later because she was unaware there were penalties for what she had done.
   
   When she wanted a hearing near her home to appeal the ticket, Campbell said conversations with government representatives were unnerving.
   
   "The worst part was the attitude of the government officials," she told Foxnews.com. "They scared and bullied me. I swore I would fight it, but I knuckled under at the last minute and paid it."
   
   In response, Transportation Security Administration (search) officials say Campbell was carrying a four-inch blade through an airport terminal that clearly warned passengers that such items were prohibited.
   
   As for the request for a hearing in Los Angeles, TSA officials said the fines are handled much the way speeding tickets are - within the jurisdiction they are issued. Campbell believes TSA denied her request because she was being persistent with her appeal.
   
   "This couldn't be what the government intended," she said.
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   But Campbell says her experience left her with a bad taste for flying, and for the government. She still doesn't know how the ticket, sent to her home weeks after the knife was confiscated at the airport, is supposed to deter terrorists.
   
   "Surely they could find a better way to spend our money," Campbell said.

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   Published on: 1/18/2003   Last Visited: 5/2/2004

   Susan Brown Campbell - Deputy Director