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Are TSA Pat Downs Becoming Too Invasive?
IWB ^ | Gabrielle Seunagal

Posted on 03/05/2017 7:01:51 PM PST by davikkm

The Transportation Security Administration has recently generated controversy after announcing that more “rigorous” and “comprehensive” pat downs will be occurring in airports across the country. Apparently, TSA has failed at least 95% of airport security tests, in which undercover agents attempted–and succeeded–in smuggling banned weapons through airport checkpoints. However, persons boarding a plane are not the only ones who will be subjected to additional and more random full body pat downs. Employees, flight attendants, crew members, and others will be checked to ensure that no bombs, weapons, explosives, or other prohibited paraphernalia makes its way onto a plane.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: patdowns; tsa
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To: umgud

I looked it up. It’s apparently some Japanese thing. Chrome on Android has a feature to ask google about a posted pic. Info comes back fast. Too bad my parents wouldn’t let me use the inet....


21 posted on 03/05/2017 8:08:38 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: davikkm

Likely depends on the hotness of the passenger and the orientation of the patter.


22 posted on 03/05/2017 8:15:03 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: davikkm

Just use the methods of El Al Israel Airlines. They do profile and their airlines no longer are hijacked nor blow up in the air. They learned their lesson at Entibe many years ago. The present Prime Minister of Israel Benjimen Natanyou’s brother lost his life in freeing the hostages at Entibe. He remembers this all.

Oddly enough in Britain they do profile but do not admit it. I have been in an out of Heathrow literaly hundreds of times and was never pulled aside for extra scutiny. Three times I was when accompanied by my wife whom is Mexican and could be mistaken for Arab. They were polite and thorough and we then went on our way with no problems. At the check in line prior to the counter were agents that would ask polite questions of where you had been and where you were going etc. They were looking for “tells” from the flyers. The tell with me is a white boy from the USA traveling with what looked to them like an Arab. I have no problem with this. They made sure my plane was safe. My wife was a bit irritated because in an adjacent line was an agent that could speak Spanish. He would have known she was Mexican. Actually I think our agent was either Dutch or German as he spoke to others in those languages and his English though perfect was with a heavy accent.

Security at London Heathrow is very good!

Oddly enough the last time we went to Spain when my wife went through customs ahead of me they knew exactly what a Mexican was an waved her through. They took me aside for extra scrutiny.

This is all good. The TSA sucks.


23 posted on 03/05/2017 8:18:10 PM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR.)
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To: umgud

The info caeds in the rack look like they are printed in Japanese and the person presenting as a wench has black hair, so it is consistent.


24 posted on 03/05/2017 8:18:59 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Paladin2

I think I 1st saw it on FR quite some time ago.


25 posted on 03/05/2017 8:20:26 PM PST by umgud
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To: shibumi

Can a rhetorical question be exaggerated? I guess so!


26 posted on 03/05/2017 8:20:27 PM PST by WXRGina (Repeal and DON'T replace!)
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To: davikkm
Recently flew out of the country through Dulles. There was a pat down despite TSA pre-check status. No big deal.
27 posted on 03/05/2017 8:29:48 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: davikkm

I became pregnant from a TSA pat-down


28 posted on 03/05/2017 8:31:00 PM PST by PGR88
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To: RepRivFarm

No, the current pope is a unitarian.

CC


29 posted on 03/05/2017 8:50:27 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Paladin2

There may be some printed skirts as you say, but not that one.


30 posted on 03/05/2017 9:45:44 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: davikkm

Nuts to them.


31 posted on 03/05/2017 10:24:12 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Luke21

Donald Trump mentioned something about making changes at the TSA during his acceptance speech in Cleveland last July.

I assumed he was going to rein in their invasive searches.

Now they’re becoming worse, not better???


32 posted on 03/05/2017 10:33:05 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Hey, news media.....TRUMP in 2020. Because, F--- You!)
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To: umgud

https://alexy.asian.lsa.umich.edu/courses/older/genderjapan/extra/files/c142317e86eaa7da450b4bffea4e0fa2-1.html

Likely fake as it turns out.


33 posted on 03/05/2017 10:35:12 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: davikkm

At some point, it becomes cheaper to buy an airline ticket than to pay for a “back room” in the local strip bar. If TSA provides that service at a lower price, they will attract customers.


34 posted on 03/06/2017 1:24:15 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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