Posted on 12/11/2004 2:07:58 PM PST by WmShirerAdmirer
(CBS/AP) The Transportation Security Administration is slightly altering the way airport screeners conduct patdown searches by allowing passengers to put their arms down after their upper bodies are checked.
TSA spokesman Mark Hatfield called it "a small adjustment that we're hoping will lead to a large increase in comfort factor for people in secondary screening." The new procedure takes effect on Monday.
Allowing passengers to put their arms down will help them feel less conspicuous while they're being searched, Hatfield said.
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ML/NJ
Sorry about your injury, and the pain but thank you for your service to our country.
So does this mean they are lubing up the anal probe first now ?
To make folks more comfortable and all. Golly they are such wonderful people ....
Security is easy. Toss the musilms out.
Oh Whoop-de-doo
Not having my arms raised at arms' length for 60 seconds will make me "feel" "less conspicuous?" Who stares at people with outreached arms anyway?
This is a fix? LMAO.
Frankly, I "feel" (and am) MORE conspicuous as the TSA professional "feels" me.
You know what's "conspicuous"? The "Fits The Profile Passenger" that sails through.
Haven't been on a plane since August 2001, so don't have any patdown experiences but what bothered me was the complaint in the article about the "so-called breast exam".
Seems from what you wrote it (patdown) wasn't so bad. I went back to the entire article, and the complaint about the upper body patdown was from Patti LaPone. Wish it had not been from a celebrity, since it seems they take offense to anything short of adulation.
Will do!
There's no reason why a white chick in a business suit needs to be felt up like a muslim male.
And I'm really over having my jewels tweaked by some faggot who knows that if I punch his lights out, like I should, I'm the one who goes to jail.
This whole process is intolerable and we ought not put up with it.
Issue "flying licenses" to people who were born here and let everyone else be treated like a cross between a plaything and a criminal.
And as soon as the ACLU starts yapping, shut 'em the hell up once and for all.
'nuff said.
I wouldn't mind putting my arms out to the side or even up in the air, but if someone (man or woman) is going to feel up (not quick pats) my upper chest-breast area with open palms, I think then I would object.
I posted the article because I've been reading about similar (as above cited complaint by women's patdowns by men) in our local (large-metro area airport/Northwest Airlines hub) newspapers. Did not intend to appear as anti-security
great thoughts!
I'm a middle-aged guy. What are they going to do to me? The worst thing is being told to sit still while someone opens your bag and starts rummaging through it. The first time someone did this to me was in an earlier version of this nonsense that was performed at the gate just prior to boarding. The inspector-cretin opened a side-bag on my CD-holder which just happened to contain the player and then turned the thing upside-down. I jumped up and caught the player as it was headed for the ground. Or maybe the worst was them confiscating my emergency corkscrew last year. It had been in my shaving kit since 1978. (They didn't care about the point on the corkscrew but rather the foil cutter. I demonstrated the dullness of the foil cutter by drawing it across my hand. They obviously had a metal quota, and the free world was saved.)
But probably the worst is knowing that if I were wearing a turban, they would leave me alone.
ML/NJ
thanks. they didn't come cheap, either.
Had to smile while I read your reply and thoroughly enjoyed reading of your experience, you have a way with apt thoughts and descriptive words.
I had one that ticked me off so much I wrote my congresswoman. Still haven't heard from her. It's a conspiracy, I tell you.
Mind sharing? Do not want to infringe on your privacy, so not sharing would be appropriate and ok.
It sounds like a worst case patdown and maybe a similar patdown should be applied to your congresswoman and see how she likes it.
The pat down was like it always is. It's when they turned out my pockets the trouble began. I carry nitro in an unmarked pill container. Nitro is very soft and dissolves easily in an emergency. They made me open the bottle and tip it into my hand. Well, the act of walking pulverizes nitro after a while. I poured out white powder. The TSA agents went nuts. I was there for a half hour trying to explain what they were looking at and why. Being a deafie, communication is hard in good places. Surrounded by agents and their supervisors, all shouting things, I am sure I appeared uncooperative.
Glad you shared. Was sorry to read they gave you such a bad time, for I'm sure you don't look like a terrorist hope your congresswoman gets back to you soon.
My Dad carries nitro on him too(or my Mom carries extra for him while on trips), but I don't think they've been on a plane since just before Sept. 11th. Your experience is something they ought to be aware of since I think they're planning on flying soon. Thanks again.
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