Posted on 07/19/2013 2:33:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The government is expanding the ways airline passengers can enroll in an expedited screening program that allows travelers to leave on their shoes, light outerwear and belts and keep laptop computers in cases at security checkpoints. …
On Friday, TSA Administrator John Pistole said beginning later this year, U.S. citizens will be able to enroll online or visit an enrollment site to provide identification, fingerprints and an $85 enrollment fee. …
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Those bastards! $85 to get on an airplane without getting groped? The No Grope Fee.
I wish they would expand in Orlando.
I'm not doing it again until they let me smoke and carry a handgun.
it is extortion they already have everyones profile courtesy of the nsa
"Nice grandma you got there. Be a shame if anything was to happen to her...."
Is it OK to use one of your 2 Forge Passports ?
What, these lines they have you already bent over with your pants down?
And just WHY wouldn't our passports - which have all that - suffice?
I already don't have to take my shoes off - 'cause I'm a great gramma - and I have a 'travel set' of clothes with no metal - no belts, no grommets.
But damned if I'll pay another fee for another document that covers what I already have - and paid for.
I wonder which politician owns the company that will provide THIS service?
I appreciate their effort to streamline the mess at the airport. But my docs don’t want me irradiated and I don’t wanna be groped (being too old for fun and games like that). Would this new ID card assure immunity from these objectionable procedures? (Or only let you keep your laptop in its little suitcare, but you’re still subject to groping and radiation, or? One recent program of this type DID leave you subject to groping and radiation...)
“it is extortion they already have everyones profile courtesy of the nsa”
exactly! They ALREADY have the fingerprints! It’s the same BS with the NEXUS program between US & CDA. You need to surrender every frigging ID between both countries you have to use that specific toll.
Please, expand everywhere! I travel a fair amount, including out of the country, and I HATE having to semi-disrobe and go barefoot through a checkpoint (particularly since I have heard from people in the biz that virtually nobody is ever caught this way).
I think the whole thing should be dropped and we should go to Israeli-style profiling, that is, recent travels - been to visit AQ recently? - and anything else from the copious information they have about us. But of course, if it makes Muslims look bad, we couldn’t possibly do this.
For me $85 would be cheap to buy my way out of this tedious harassment. I have to take off all my jewelry (which tells you it’s not gold!) and half the time I misplace it and it turns up in the toe of whatever shoe I had on. After I get back from the trip, of course.
Here’s an idea that would speed it up even more. Check only those who look like Islamoterrorists. It might sound like profiling but it would save Americans a lot of time and money.
Fee waived if your name is Abdul, Mohammed or Fathima.
Looks like an “effort” to extort money from passengers, to me.
Fee waived if your name is Abdul, Mohammed or Fathima.
is that the Pull start ,push start and kick start thing
I see. It is a real shame they can’t just let respectable American citizens board ... and just reserve all this security stuff for YouKnowWho
USA, we have lost the “war” on IslamoNazi terrorism
alas!
I'm not doing it again until they let me smoke and carry a handgun.
Try flying EIB 1
Interesting idea, I think it was called a passport in the old days.
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