[Captain Peter Blood]

I firmly believe that more questions are called for as well as accountability from The Federal Government. The screening is totally out of hand and for the money being spent is it really cost effective and making air travel safer?

[pallis]

“Do you worship Allah?”
“Yes!”
“Do you think Mohammad was a kook?”
“No!”
“Bend over.”

[Paladin2]

We need to be screening for Islamics seeking martyrdom and leftists wanting to go to Cuba.

[LearsFool]

The bottom line is that these TSA policies are more about control of us rather than keeping us safer.

I believe it was Mark Twain who said, "There are lies, d*mned lies, and statistics." Your use of statistics is so full of holes as to make your (utterly correct and fully supportable) conclusion suspect and easily discredited.

I wish you had come at it from a different angle.

[CaptainPhilFan]

This is a dupe reply (mine) from another thread.

In July, USA Today had a story about Pistole
in which he says that TSA ought to be a national
security and anti-terrorism force throughout the
land at all kinds of places, and fully integrated
in the US Govt.

Is this a prelude to get us used to having
our own brown shirts?

link to article:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-07-16-tsa16_ST_N.htm

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

The big unasked question: How many PETN or other explosives have been intercepted by this new procedure compared to the number of passengers screened.

[TomasUSMC]

Odumbi,the LeftWingCommieCocaineHomoClosetFreak-DemonratPresident -
.... is treating the American People like the terrorists should be treated

AND

.... the terroristS are being treated like the American People should be treated.

Thats the Problem.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

There needs to be screening at airports. That screening must be for ALL passengers, and must not automatically excuse some passengers because they belong to the Religion of Peace.

In addition, that screening must not violate unreasonable rights to privacy and must not be applied as a means of controlling the flying public. The passenger’s belongings must be kept clearly visible to the passenger at all times. Parents of minors must be with their children at all times. Passengers born in, or traveling to or from countries that harbor jihadis must have additional screening and questioning.

[SnakeDoctor]

Counterterrorism is not about statistics. “Yeah, they’ll try to bomb ... but, really, what’re the odds they’ll get me?” is not a security strategy.

Body-counts and statistics are not a particularly effective way of measuring the threat when just a few deaths can have a profound effect. Security is necessary. The methodology is all wrong, but don’t make the mistake of minimizing the threat itself.

SnakeDoc

[Tzfat]

Every airport employee (other than pilots and flight attendants at some airports) BY-PASSES security. Nothing. Nada. In other words the ENTIRE TSA workforce is for show. And it isn’t for show to the terrorists. They know the truth. It is show for the sheeple.

[GailA]

Intimate Pat-Downs Raise Risk of Infection at Airports

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101123/sc_livescience/intimatepatdownsraiseriskofinfectionatairports

Has ever one forgotten about http://history1900s.about.com/od/1900s/a/typhoidmary.htm Typhoid Mary?

[nobdysfool]

What about that little issue called "probable cause"? Why should I be treated as a suspected terrorist simply because I have an airline ticket to fly to another location WITHIN MY OWN COUNTRY? Am I not free to move around as I wish in my own country, seeing that I am a natural-born citizen of this country, without being harassed by government agents, and treated as though I am trying to sneak contraband materials onto the airplane? 4th Amendment, people! I am constitutionally guaranteed to be secure in my person, possessions, and home against unreasonable searches and seizures, except for probable cause. Just walking into an airport with a ticket does not constitute probable cause, by any stretch of the imagination.

My employer and I will have to have a discussion about this.