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I’m really of mixed minds on this. I can see that there is a real risk of terrorists smuggling bombs onboard unless people are thoroughly checked. But the TSA appears to focus more attenton on grannies than anyone else. The constitution isn’t super clear on this point, because the TSA would simply deny that their searches qualify as unreasonable.

If they did it to everyone it would be different, Muslim women are being excluded from the scans and pat downs are only to the neck and head area.

Young children should never have an adult pat them down in this manner.

“I can see that there is a real risk of terrorists smuggling bombs onboard unless people are thoroughly checked”

Perhaps to reassure us about the necessity for this program, TSA should release reports of the airline bombing terrorist plots by Catholics, Protestants, and Jews that they have thwarted since 2001.

Terrorists already have breast implant bombs and butt bombs. None of this stuff does a thing about any of that. If we’re just looking for devices there will always be a way to conceal them, unless the TSA performs full-body MRI’s of every person that enters an airport every day.

And if they’re gonna exclude Muslim women from being searched, they’ve already left the door wide open for the prime group that would do a terrorist act - especially since Muslim women have been fitted with breast implant bombs and have carried out terrorist attacks in Iraq.

And if there were no women whose lives have been made miserable enough to make them suicidal, any terroristic man in pursuit of 72 virgins forever at his beck and call can hide as a woman in full hijab, where nothing but the eyes are exposed.

These measures are window dressings to make it APPEAR that the terrorist threat is being taken seriously, but if the terrorist threat was truly being taken seriously we would look for TERRORISTS rather than merely devices - like the Israelis do very, very successfully in their airlines. And we would not exclude the prime perpetrators from the scrutiny. This is an ineffective “security” show, whose only success is to effectively institutionalize the subjection of “infidels”.

I’m really of mixed minds on this. I can see that there is a real risk of terrorists smuggling bombs onboard unless people are thoroughly checked. But the TSA appears to focus more attenton on grannies than anyone else. The constitution isn’t super clear on this point, because the TSA would simply deny that their searches qualify as unreasonable.

Was recently at an airport and while going through screening, they had the full body scan and people being patted down. Turns out the people that they "randomly" chose to go through the full body scan ALSO got patted down. One such unlucky person was a well-endowed woman. Not only did she have to go through the full body scan because she beeped while going through the metal detector because of the wire in her underwire bra, but then they patted her down.

While walking by her being patted down, I heard the agent say, "Sorry about this." and the lady said, "That's okay. I had to go through the pat down last week too and while patting me down, they told me to raise my arms. I did but they said to raise them higher. I told them I couldn't because my shirt would open up. The agent moved my arms up higher and my blouse popped open, so I have already shown the world my stuff once."

I’ve got the perfect solution. Have the TSA agents hold trays of bacon and offer a slice to the passengers. If you don’t take the bacon, you have to go through the scanner and/or have the pat down. It’s a win/win for non-terrorists. I mean, come on, dude, it’s BACON! Yum!