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Amid airport anger, GOP takes aim at screening (AIRPORTS CAN OPT OUT FROM TSA)
Washington Examiner ^ | 11/15/2010 | Byron York

Posted on 11/16/2010 7:42:04 AM PST by Responsibility2nd

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1 posted on 11/16/2010 7:42:10 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Ah, that’s why KCI has private security screeners rather than TSA losers.


2 posted on 11/16/2010 7:43:54 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Perhaps all should fly in the nude.

Safe and interesting...


3 posted on 11/16/2010 7:44:35 AM PST by Joe Bfstplk
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To: Responsibility2nd

What’s in the red boxes in the opt out graphic?


4 posted on 11/16/2010 7:48:10 AM PST by drubyfive
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To: Responsibility2nd

When they send you through the scanners, grab your skull and scream like your head is about to explode and drop to floor in convulsions. Make sure someone os videotaping the incident though.


5 posted on 11/16/2010 7:48:26 AM PST by sniper63 (I am the leader of the TEA Party, I, myself am the leader of me, myself for I am the TEA Party!)
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Just because private contractors, instead if government employees, pat me down doesn’t mean it’s any less of an infringement on my liberty.


6 posted on 11/16/2010 7:49:35 AM PST by Britt0n
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To: Joe Bfstplk

Hillbuzz came up with the idea for people to come in their underwear in Chicago. It would be legal there.

He wants someone with bucks to hire some actors and make a statement by showing up nearly naked.


7 posted on 11/16/2010 7:50:35 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: Joe Bfstplk

All they need is a little creativity...

Opt out of TSA, hire ex-Hooters girls and strippers as screeners for the guys. Skimpy outfits and mandatory opposite-sex pat-downs! Guys would be buying tickets just to go thru security ;-)

It might take longer however, if the guys had guns in their pockets, so to speak...


8 posted on 11/16/2010 7:51:14 AM PST by bigbob
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To: Britt0n

The TSA has become a jobs program for minorities. Most of these people barely qualify for an entry job at McDonalds.


9 posted on 11/16/2010 7:53:13 AM PST by Roklok
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

The bad news is, the company that gets the gig will be unionized.


10 posted on 11/16/2010 7:54:15 AM PST by jazminerose (o)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The author describes the problem adequately but doesn’t identify the underlying cause correctly.

Anybody with a brain would realize right away that adopting the Israeli profiling model would not work in a country with EEO hiring practices. The Israelis don’t have that fatal hindrance. And unless there is an immediate end to PC in the United States, it’s only a pipe dream for fantasists.

I’m sorry. The only WORKABLE - as opposed to desired or imagined - solution to airline security in this country is to have machines to do the work that humans should do but are unable to, for the reasons given above.

The tea party is facing its Joe Miller moment. If it embraces this fringy tangent at the expense of its founding issues (defeating confiscatory, social democracy economic policy and the strangulation through environmentalism), then the average American will be offput by its march to the grassy knoll, and go for the business-as-usual political set instead.

Mark. My. Words.


11 posted on 11/16/2010 7:54:24 AM PST by qwertypie
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To: Responsibility2nd
If the private screeners do the same stuff as the public ones, what's the point?

In general, the problem with the TSA isn't that they do too much, it's that they do too little. When the TSA was created, they had one mandate - no box cutters on airplanes. That was it. They had no interest in anything else. For example, there was concern that terrorists were obtaining stinger missiles and would launch them at commercial aircraft. The TSA did nothing about this, because they were not box cutters being brought onto airplanes.
12 posted on 11/16/2010 7:55:53 AM PST by Question Liberal Authority (Worst. Post-Racial. And Post-Partisan. Agent Of Hope And Change. EVER.)
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To: Joe Bfstplk
Perhaps all should fly in the nude.

Safe and interesting...



13 posted on 11/16/2010 7:56:15 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Napolean fries the idea powder.)
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To: Joe Bfstplk
For real. A group of people (guys ans girls) should show up nude at an airport and see what happens.

This could become a classic example of what Rush Limbaugh categorizes as “Demonstrating absurdity by being absurd”.

That being said, airline safety procedures should be modeled after the Israeli model.

14 posted on 11/16/2010 7:56:29 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (Massachusetts: like sh*t, it happens.)
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To: Joe Bfstplk
Perhaps all should fly in the nude.

Not sure I agree, Joe. ;-)


15 posted on 11/16/2010 7:58:31 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: RummyChick

I msee a market with T-shirts having lead foil letters “ FU TSA” sown in.


16 posted on 11/16/2010 7:58:40 AM PST by spokeshave (Islamics and Democrats unite to cut off Adam Smith's invisible hand)
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To: Roklok
Most of these people barely qualify for an entry job at McDonalds.

What do you mean barely? Most of them would get fired the first day on the job at Mikey D's. They have strict standards on cleanliness, polite treatment of customers and actually working when you are on the clock.

17 posted on 11/16/2010 7:59:20 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Britt0n
Just because private contractors, instead if government employees, pat me down doesn’t mean it’s any less of an infringement on my liberty.

You're missing the point. The feds don't have accountability to the airlines or their passengers if they make the passengers angry. Private contractors hired by the airlines will have such accountability and will get fired if they screw up by doing stupid things like patting down 3 year olds and nuns.

18 posted on 11/16/2010 8:01:49 AM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: Joe Bfstplk
"Perhaps all should fly in the nude. Safe and interesting..."

Hair, fat, flab, discoloration, minimal sanitary skills, piercings in ‘odd’ places, tattoos in ‘odd’ places, unconfined flatulence....

Don't even go there, my FRiend, don't even go there.

19 posted on 11/16/2010 8:02:40 AM PST by Celtic Cross (I AM the Impeccable Hat.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Airports won’t do it because then THEY will have to provide security out of their own pockets.


20 posted on 11/16/2010 8:02:59 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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