Biden: Airport screening pat-downs a 'necessary policy'

The Hill ^ | 11/19/2010 | Jordan Fabian

[Callahan]

Biden is a big Amtrak guy. You can still waltz on a train at the last second w/o showing anything but a ticket, which makes it much more convenient than flying. Obviously you can’t turn a train into a flying missile but you still have a bunch of people trapped in an enclosed space.

[VR-21]

Something that’s definitely not necessary is the piece of human garbage we have for a Vice President.

[doyle]

“Nowhere do more people meekly acquiesce to more useless inconvenience and needless indignity for less purpose.” Charles Krauthammer, writing about TSA intimate frisks.

But the quote also applies so well to listening to any comment from Joe Biden.

[dynoman]

Apparently it's not necessary policy for Israel, we are becoming the laughingstock of the world.

[maggief]

Stand up, Chuck!

[conservativegramma]

Fine. Let Biden prove it by undergoing a pat down every morning before going any where near the Capitol Building or White House.

Furthermore, if the scanners are so safe an unobtrustive as they claim, he should also go through one of those every morning and his naked pic displayed all over the net like other people have suffered!

[supermop]

I think the Special Air Mission Squadron serving the President and all politicians, including Nancy Pelosi, should start performing the TSA inspections. If it is necessary for us lemmings, it should be satisfying for all politicians.

However, I would not want to be the one who had to check Nancy’s p@nties/cr0tch

[DannyTN]

I think Rush was right. They are doing this to punish the American people for having voted for Republicans.

[Never on my watch]

I am soooo tired of this:

"... maybe because I spend so much time every morning dealing with the threat assessment that's out there and the fact that it's real..."

Sounds like: Trust me, I from the government, I know something you don't. So you need to let our government strangers touch your children's private parts.

When we are willing to tell the world how many nukes we have, they can d@mn sure tell us what the treat is.

But they can't, because every terrorist threat would be Islamic. The threats would not be in shampoo bottles or diapers or depends undergarments.

[Ezekiel]

"Well look, Larry, maybe because I spend so much time every morning dealing with the threat assessment that's out there and the fact that it's real — I understand peoples' frustration, but I -- unless there's a new technology that comes along pretty quickly, I think it's — I think it's a necessary policy," he said on CNN's "Larry King Live" program.

Ever get the feeling that the purpose of the scanners is to make people want the offensive "new technology" that is already waiting in the wings?

[television is just wrong]

maybe biden gets off on the procedure?

[Dilbert San Diego]

The way things are going, I expect to see these screenings take place for trains, buses, subways in big cities, etc. eventually.

Terrorists have attacked in subways and buses in other countries, so it could just be a matter of time before these bureaucrats decide that all forms of transportation need screening.

They also do pat downs at some sports stadiums, from what I hear. And they search purses and backpacks when you go to places like Disneyland.

We have already lost some freedoms to go places without being searched in some way. If these x ray machines become permanent and mandatory, I expect it to spread to other places such as trains, stadiums, and theme parks.

[Never on my watch]

Someone at work this morning, mentioned something I had not thought of. What about the indignity of someone with a catheter or colostomy bag would have to endure? This is madness.

[The Cajun]

.....just for fun

With a statement like that, you're lucky some of the ne're-do-well nighttime Freepers are either sleeping or off to work ;^)

[Logical me]

The peaceful end to Government is rapidly coming to an end.

[TCH]

ISRAEL does not do this intrusive procedure.

Israel, a nation morer at risk for terrorist acts than we, uses PROFILING and INTERVIEWS of those individuals likely to be the threat: MUSLIMS.

Now, Joe, you ignorant dolt, please explain why MUSLIM WOMEN, dressed from head to toe in their concealing garb, are NOT REQUIRED to receive the same level of “care”? OH, but CATHOLIC NUNS, well that’s another story! The reason is because your boss is a devout MUSLIM, so all his relations receive his special blessing ... and the rest of us? We are “enemies of the state.”

Joe… JOU LIE! B.S. Meter is pegged.

BTW, Joe... I will not be flying this Thanksgiving, or Christmas, or any other time, for any reason... But I guess that is the outcome that DHS’s (Der Hitler Squad) chief lesbian and you actually desired.

That MARXIST clown, whose ass you have your head fully ensconced within, will thus destroy another part of the American economic engine.

[billorites]

"John Boehner says that he will continue to fly commercial, rather than use military jets. What he ought to do is go to an airport and make a big stink about the TSA. People would love him for it."

He'll be outside sucking down one last smoke.

[troy McClure]

MFA

Muslim Free America

[Thermalseeker]

Since Plugs said it is a “necessary policy” and since every time Plugs says something the opposite usually happens, look for the policy to be discontinued in the very near future......

[Tennessee Nana]

Good then let me know when you, your wife and daughters and grandchildren are to be on live TV getting the royal treatment...

I’ll make sure I watch that...

Is your 3 year old granddaughter a screamer ???