Retired teacher worries Homeland Security too secure

BATH -- A retired physics teacher found the scariest part of his trip to England wasn't in the air -- it was once he landed back in the U.S.

Seventy-seven-year old Gordon Johnson returned from visiting his daughter and three children in England early this month. It's the sixth trip abroad for Gordon and his wife, Chell, in the last eight years. But, this time, when the couple returned to the U.S., a customs officer at the Philadelphia airport pulled Gordon into a small holding room with only a desk.

"I'm on this list, y'know, and therefore I really can't enter the United States and at that point, I really got scared," Gordon says.

Then, the immigration officer left him alone in the room and talked to a supervisor.

"It probably was 10 minutes, I would guess, he was gone and that 10 minutes I was really, really scared because if he came back and said, 'You're going to Siberia' or wherever, what could you do?"

Finally, after about a half-hour, Gordon was allowed to continue on his trip home but encouraged not to travel overseas again.

"I'm no threat at all," complains the former Firestone High School teacher. "I mean, it's ridiculous. I want people to know that slowly but surely many of our freedoms are being taken away."

Gordon has no idea how he ended up on a security list. He's contacted the T.S.A and will try to get his name off the list and should find out in the next 45 days.