Re: Security, or security theater?
The answer to your first question is: Yes. The security check is: Do you have more money than sense? If the answer is Yes (which it is, because you're in First Class fer chrisssakes), then you are, by definition, not a security risk.
Money is the social lubricant of the 21st century, donchano...
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