Posted on 11/18/2010 12:55:19 PM PST by kingu
Airport passenger screening measures have become a touchy issue in the U.S. in the past week, but in the past year the controversial measures have detected more than 130 prohibited, illegal or dangerous items that otherwise would have made it onto airplanes, the Transportation Security Administration says.
The TSA now requires all passengers at some U.S. airports either to pass through a full-body scanning device, which reveals everything beneath their clothing, or to submit to a thorough pat-down inspection -- a choice that has some travelers livid about their loss of privacy.
But the TSA says keeping passengers safe is its top priority, and the new measures are necessary.
"This year alone, the use of advanced imaging technology has led to the detection of over 130 prohibited, illegal or dangerous items," TSA spokesman Greg Soule told FoxNews.com. The TSA would not disclose exactly what those items were, but it said they included weapons like ceramic knives and various drugs -- including a syringe filled with heroine hidden in a passenger’s underwear.
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Hey, My nail clippers don’t count!
How many were deterred?
Number of bombings prevented: Zero.How many would have happened without screening? We don't know. Your argument is sort of like Obama's counting of jobs saved.
I’d like to see the pile of guns and bombs they found so far. Oh wait, there aren’t any.
among the items they are counting are my little 3” combination knife, nail file, shears... which I surrendered each time I used to ride the airlines.... I now boycott... if I can’t get there any other way, I don’t go.... only exemption is death in the family
Interestingly they don't tell you what the items were. A bottle of water? Baby formula maybe? Nail clippers? Was the intent to do harm, our just innocent? Nail file, pin knife, pencil sharpener, razor for shaving?
Exactly. Nothing that was found would have taken down a flight.
Remember they justified doing all this on PASSENGERS because of the CARGO PLANE inkjet bombs.
Yup people will buy anything. Public schools teach people to believe everything people in ‘authority’ say, not really sit there and critically analyze the answers people give them, they are like the goats on animal farm that just parrot the authorities’ answers when OTHER people raise a logical objection.
This is about as useful a report as those “jobs created or saved” reports.
How many safe flights were created or saved by this process? ;-)
Nothing to suggest these new scanners found anything the old metal detectors wouldn’t have caught.
When ITEMS are outlawed, only Outlaws will have ITEMS.
“TSA: New Scanners Kept Many Illegal or Dangerous Items Off Planes This Year”
What? Like Muslims?
That's statistically insignificant. It's so far to the right of the decimal point that it doesn't even matter.
Interestingly they don't tell you what the items were. A bottle of water? Baby formula maybe? Nail clippers? Was the intent to do harm, our just innocent? Nail file, pin knife, pencil sharpener, razor for shaving?
How many of these terrorist smugglers were arrested and prosecuted? If they did not find anyone intending to use these 'dangerous items' maliciously, then the have done nothing.
The “prohibited” items are probably mostly liquids people forgot to put in small bottles. Read an article this morning about a guy who had bought some special southern salad dressing for his wife and forgot that it was in too big a bottle. They took it away from him, so that’s one of the 130 “prohibited items” that they caught. I wonder if 130 refers to the number of incidents, or the different kinds of stuff they confiscated.
And someone was going to bring down a plane with that, how?
I'm going on the self-declared no-fly list too. Nothing short of a funeral will get me on a commercial plane now, and I'll drive to that if at all possible. Anyone know of any good ways to use up ~98,000 Delta frequent flier miles besides actual air travel?
Exactly what I was thinking.
130 items in 365 days? How many airports?
I mean, a total of 1 item about every three days in perhaps 375 airports? One item per 375 airports every two or three days. Wow, how underwhelming.
How many of those items were likely to be used in a terrorist attack or incident? (HINT: They do not know, because they do not profile passengers, they confiscate items.)
Idiots.
While the TSA is busy molesting much of the American population, terrorist are crossing our unprotected borders. This is total insanity.
I got magazine subscriptions. They could give me a first class ticket to anywhere and I wouldn't fly now anyway.
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