Posted on 04/04/2008 3:21:34 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Aren’t those numbers great? Around nine percent of the people these idiots plucked out of line had the police called on them. Somewhere around 0.68% of them were arrested. Anotherwords you treat 104,000 people like terrorists, call the police on 9,300 people of of those only 700 are eventually arrested. I wonder how many of those 700 were actually arrested for violations related to a threat to the airlines. My guess is that this wonderful program actually amounts to nothing more than a warrantless search, background check, and fishing expedition.
That Rap-Crap loses all credibility with adults.
Okay Norm, but don’t you think this guy was stopped at the X-ray machines rather than by some group of behavioral sociologists? I could be wrong, but this sounds like a classic case of bait and switch.
Moral of the story. Adults don’t carry back packs.
“She’s a witch. Burn her!”
I used to fly quite a bit,, can’t say I miss it much. I’ll keep an eye out for these folks at the airports , we’re doing a canal run shortly.
Ouch on the back, I guess you can’t split 4 cords of wood a season anymore. :-)
My guess is that this wonderful program actually amounts to nothing more than a warrantless search, background check, and fishing expedition.
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emphasis on the fishing, yup ... but they have the license to do it..
Can't. It's a government agency. It'll live forever.
Today the TSA, tomorrow the traffic cop stop.
They may as well get a mystic out there with a forked stick!
No, no ,of course we can never engage in true terrorist profiling. No of course not. No,, we're going to go get some Harvard expert that developed some new revolutionary system of determining suspicious behavior in individuals by the number of times they blink divided by their height while secretly measuring the radius of their forehead with hidden scanners! This is insane!
Amen!
Cobra64 wrote: Moral of the story. Adults don’t carry back packs.
Baha speak for yourself. I won’t travel without one!
I’m not a “tiny purse” kinda gal. Wallet, book, various girl-stuff, and one change of clothes if checked bag stalls somewhere.
But then again I’m not a shifty-eyed-sweaty nervous-twitchy kinda person.
I think.
I hope.
O.o
This amounts to thought police. And they're not very good.
“Be my guest and fly with unchecked fellow passangers. I”
You already are in that those illegal aliens working your plane are not checked nor are the contents of what they carry onto the plane. You can go ahead and believe that being strip earched at the front door means there are no threats at the rear door if that makes you comfy, but it has absolutely no affect. Prior to 9/11 we were told security at airports was adequate and you believe that now.
As in Catch and Release?
-PJ
I’ve sat in Frankfurt to catch a half-dozen flights since 9-11. The amount of eye contact that the security folks use...is double and triple than before. They are looking for any hint of a lie...and if so...then you get a stronger second presence to ask more questions. Bogus passports? Very doubtful unless you are trying use a 3rd world like Sri Lanka or Peru passport...because they really check out the passport and look for anything out of the ordinary.
The TSA crew in comparison? They don’t measure up. They are not as capable or comparable. Is TSA improving? That I might agree to....but then you see a bunch of cop-wannabes in uniform...and you start to laugh at the demand of absolute respect. I’m waiting for the TSA guys to freak out on some Marines traveling through a airport...and the TSA guys get tossed to the ground and disarmed.
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