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