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Date: 2002-03-15

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It is fair to say that Godfrey -- brother of City Paper webmaster
Ryan Godfrey -- doesn't look unusual for a 22-year-old kid living in
Center City.

His outfit that day was typical: black Dockers, a T-shirt with a logo
for the now-defunct Phoenix Gazette newspaper and New Balance
running shoes. He has a medium build, recently dyed jet-black hair
and a quiet demeanor.

When Godfrey stepped up to the ticket counter, the United clerk
informed him he had been selected for a random baggage search.

"No problem," he replied, going through the usual motions of
checking his bag and getting a boarding pass. Now toting nothing
but a novel and the most recent copy of The Nation magazine,
Godfrey hiked through the concourse toward his boarding gate.

As he passed through the metal detector, an airport security guard
furrowed his brow at Godfrey's reading selections as they
disappeared through the conveyor belt.

On the cover of the book, Hayduke Lives! by Edward Abbey, is an
illustration of a man's hand holding several sticks of dynamite. The
1991 novel is about a radical environmentalist, George Washington
Hayduke III, who blows up bridges, burns tractors and sabotages
other projects he believes are destroying the beautiful Southwest
landscape.

"For the first time, it occurred to me the book may be a problem,"
Godfrey recalls.

He proceeded through the security checkpoint and sat down to
read near his boarding gate. About 10 minutes had passed when a
National Guardsman approached Godfrey.
[...]

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