[DanMiller]

Race and ethnicity alone are not suitable bases for profiling. Had the question been about additional security checks based on perceived religion, race, ethnicity, age, and conduct which would appear to a reasonable observer trained in interpreting conduct, body language, and conversation to be “abnormal and suspicious,” my answer would have fallen into the “justified” category. Like it or not and quite independently of race and ethnicity, far more young Islamists than elderly Methodists have recently engaged in terrorist activity as encouraged by their religious leaders and teachings; those facts should be part of the mix to be considered, even though I guess it could be argued that since there have been no terrorist attacks involving airlines in recent years by elderly Methodists, TSA procedures have functioned quite well.

Surveys which fail to distinguish between respondents likely to have had some experience with the subject of the surveys or otherwise likely to have fact-based views are misleading and are more revealing about the perceptions of the folks conducting them than anything else.

[Slings and Arrows]

Cue Captain Renault...

[ari-freedom]

we need behavioral profiling. We can't really check to see if someone is a true muslim. They could change their names or get some swedish convert to do it

[dawn53]

From the stories I’ve read recently, they’re not singling out anyone by race or ethnicity but by their health...those that have medical devices or appliances that show up on the scanner and then are presumed guilty until proven innocent. And how do they prove their innocence...whoopie...they get to show their colostomy or urosotmy bag, breast prothesis, etc. to the screener. It’s disgusting.

I’ve still not found any info on people wearing internal devices i.e. pacemakers, insuliin or other medicine pumps surgically implanted just below the skin. What’s happening to those folks...how do they prove what they are?

[Presbyterian Reporter]

It is easy to say you approve of TSA pat downs if you do not travel by airplane.

Same applies to FR commentators who say they are not going to fly via airplane when it may have been 5 years since their last flight.

[Joe Boucher]

I’m surprised we haven’t seen a father or husband find out where a “tsa” agent lives who molested their wife or child and beat hell out of them.
I’m not advocating this but would surely smile broadly if it did happen.

[Lurking in Kansas]

ANYONE WHO FLYS, TAKE YOUR CAMERA.

RECORD EVERYTHING !

[samtheman]

I just traveled. Through an airport that has scanners (Las Vegas), and was fully ready to be scanned if asked.

A scan doses you at the same level of radiation you will get from TWO MINUTES of cruising altitude flight on the jet you’re about to board.

I know the scanners don’t detect everything but I don’t care. I want them there. I want as much anti-bomb technology as possible. I want to arrive at my destination with my butt still firmly attached to the rest of my body... thank you.

My only worry in all this is that muzzies get an exemption. If muzzies get an exemption, I’m willing to join any anti-TSA, anti-Obama, anti-HS protest available.

So far, from what I understand, there is no muzzie exemption in place. To my mind, that’s the issue here. Is there a muzzie exemption, or isn’t there.

If there is no muzzie exemption, count me as a happy flier... fire up the scanner and I’ll walk right through with a smile on my face.

[Shethink13]

However, the reported question asks only about the new “‘full body’ digital X-ray machines.”

I also think that people are not aware of how vivid and personal the full-body scan is. I believe they think it is like an x-ray that shows bones and inner organs, when it is actually basically a nude photo.

[CORedneck]

consider the source ! cBS !

[KeyLargo]

TSA Unionization: A $30 Million Annual Gift to Union Bosses
redstate.com ^ | Nov 17, 2010

Posted on Sunday, November 21, 2010 9:49:06 AM by KeyLargo

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2630840/posts

[Doc Savage]

Dan, stop talking around the real issue, the 10 ton elephant standing in the corner. Muslims. Stop using the word terrorist. Start calling them what they are. Muslims! Christians don't want to kill you. Jews don't want to kill you. MUSLIMS want to kill you.

The REAL problem is that NO one wants to call a spade a spade. Muslims want to rid the earth of infidels. That's YOU Dan baby! And me. To accomplish this goal they are willing to hijack airliners, fly them into populated buildings, plant roadside bombs, send young children into busy markets strapped with explosives to kill as many innocent people as possible, behead innocent Christians and jews, and even stone their own women to death after they've been raped!

These are EVIL people Dan. get with the program. And until every last Muslim is gone, NO Christian, Jew or innocent will be safe.

[ZULU]

The bastards who did this ARE WATCHING.

They are WATCHING to see what silly sheep the American Public are.

People should BOYCOTT all plane rides until these monsters revise their policies and PROFILE MUSLIMS - the ONLY people blowing up airplanes or trying to!!!