Amid airport anger, GOP takes aim at screening (AIRPORTS CAN OPT OUT FROM TSA)

Washington Examiner ^ | 11/15/2010 | Byron York

[phockthis]

interesting

[Shethink13]

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.

You mean like this?

[sausageseller]

False argument. There wouldn’t have to be patting down of 3 year old girls if people accepted walking through advanced technology. No system will be perfect, I’m only interested in a compromise solution that is optimal, cost-effective, and only intrudes minimally. Resisting technology is what liberals do. Advocating unreasonable, kumbayah solutions is what liberals do. Forgetting the reasons why airport security measures were adopted is what Alzheimers patients suffer from.

BS! they pull people out of line for rub downs regardless of going through the scanner or not.

3 weeks ago I went through the scanner and they questioned what was in my front pocket. I pulled out some folded cash. They still rubbed me down and rubbed my penis in the process. I had followed all their instructions and did not deserve their assault.

It is total lie you are putting forth that the rub downs make airline travel safer.

[Sun]

Another great reason to boycott airlines that have TSA people, even if you have to take a train or bus.

Travelers need to put the pressure on!

[A'elian' nation]

The question is WHY is the TSA getting so aggressive ?
AND why should we trust them to save us from anything?

The latest Drudge headline is TSA hands down INSIDE pants feeling and groping a man’s penis and testicles.
And 3yr olds?

Is this really making us safer?

The TSA just reacts to its failures:
the shoe bomber - everybody takes off shoes
the soda bomber - no more liquids
the ink bomber - no more ink cartridges
the diaper bomber - invasive searches

Fact of the matter is we have just been LUCKY -
the TSA (bunch of unionized incompetents) just reacts and hasn’t had an original preventive/protective idea other than aggressive purposive harassment. Even the body scans, I don’t think, can see explosives up one’s anus - which actually happened in Saudi Arabia.

We will never be 100% safe unless you fly Virgin Airlines nudist flights. Unless you fly to Saudi Arabia.

[CFIIIMEIATP737]

When we come in from out of the country, no matter what our destination, we have to stop at a port of entry. For example, coming out of Mexico, we usually stop in El Paso. Coming from the Turks and Caicos, we stop at Ft. Lauderdale.

At these places, we take EVERYTHING off the airplane and a customs agent inspects the plane and the baggage. Sometimes they use radiation detectors. Sometimes they use their eyeball. Sometimes they open one piece of luggage out of thirty.

I would be much more concerned about ships and trucks. My son is with the Coast Guard. The number of containers inspected versus the number that comes into the country is microscopic.

Can bad people and bad stuff come in thru private aircraft? Sure. But the volume of stuff that could come from other forms of transportation is much greater. And bad stuff can come in small packages, like a suitcase nuke.

[jazminerose]

How big of a package would it take to actually hold a nuke? It’s something I do worry about, particularly with our southern border wide open to Chavez/Hezbollah.

[CFIIIMEIATP737]

I believe it’s called a suitcase nuke for the reason it can be accomodated in a suitcase. Worry about things you have control over, not things of which you have no control.

[AmericanInTokyo]

This big story is already going viral in Japan. LINK HERE

It is highlighting, in Japanese, the Johns Hopkins study that these airport machines are not safe and can be connected to skin cancer. It shows a photo of machine, and then the text of the JH study in Japanese. CNN Japan this morning is also now running the story in Japanese, it is spreading in Japan, they are as a people, VERY sensitive people about "radiation" (no pun intended) as well as having images of their private parts on public display, especially in a foreign land. Particularly female Japanese travelers, who bring tons of yen/cash for shopping splurge US tours, will most likely now stay away in DROVES I predict if this kind of story spreads, and will stick with other countries to visit.

[AmericanInTokyo]

【11月14日 AFP】米国の空港でセキュリティチェックのために使用されているX線を用いた全身透視スキャナーについて、米国の科学者たちが人体に危険を与える可能性があると警告している。 　米ジョンズ・ホプキンス大学（Johns Hopkins University）医学部生物物理学科でX線研究室を率いているマイケル・ラブ（Michael Love）博士は12日、AFPの取材に対し、｢リスクは最小限だが、統計的にはこのX線によって皮膚がんを発症する人が出ることはありうる｣と述べた。 　搭乗客や搭乗員に対して使用されているこの検査装置は、衣類の下の体の細部まで透視できる全身スキャナーで、米運輸保安局（Transportation Security Administration、TSA）が2007年に全米の空港に導入を開始した。現在、全米の65の空港で計315台が稼動しているが、景気刺激策の一環として得られた予算により、さらに450台を追加導入することになっている。 　しかし、これまでにプライバシーの侵害だという議論がされてきたことに加え、今回のように健康に対する懸念の声もあがっていた。 　4月には米カリフォルニア大学サンフランシスコ校（UCSF）の科学者たちが｢深刻な健康リスクの可能性｣について、ホワイトハウス科学技術局（Office of Science and Technology）に書簡を送っていた。この中で同大の生化学者ジョン・セダト（John Sedat）氏らは、スキャナーのX線は皮膚を透過し、下層組織にまで至ると指摘し...

[Sun]

Sean had a guest on his show who said (paraphrasing) these new security checks are better than going to funerals (because of the people who will die from terrorism).

Is terrorizing little children really going to make us saver?

And tonight I’m looking on tv at all the people at the airports being patted down, like elderly ladies, et al, and I would say not one of them is a terrorist. Travelers are going through this for politically-correct reasons, not to make us safer.

[Sun]

“It is highlighting, in Japanese, the Johns Hopkins study that these airport machines are not safe and can be connected to skin cancer.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH-dpkJZiOM