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Why Does TSA Make Most U.S. Flyers Remove Their Shoes?
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| 8/29/2019
| Kelly Hoggan
Posted on 08/29/2019 9:42:28 AM PDT by BigKahuna
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The piece says TSA has probably screened 10 BILLION shoes since that policy began. That's a lot of footwear. And have they ever turned up a single shoe bomb? Just wonderin'...
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:42:28 AM PDT
by
BigKahuna
To: BigKahuna
I just pray a bomber never hides C4 up his rectum.
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:44:59 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
To: BigKahuna
Sooner or later, the thinking goes, some terror group will try again to insert a shoe-style bomber onto a flight, preferably one originating in the U.S., if only to prove that our aviation security practices arent terror-proof. Given that (lack of) logic, since we had Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab try to set his underwear on fire, why isn't every passenger forced to strip down to their birthday suits?
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:46:26 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: BigKahuna
Because Quintin Tarantino made the training film?
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:46:37 AM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(Youth, speed and energy can always be overcome with experience and treachery.)
To: cuban leaf
I just pray a bomber never hides C4 up his rectum.But that's where the TSA seems to keep their collective heads...
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:46:48 AM PDT
by
Quality_Not_Quantity
(A law means nothing if it isnÂ’t followed.)
To: cuban leaf
What the hell are you doing? Dont you realize the goobermint reads these threads? I have to fly to see the grandchildren in a couple weeks and if I end up getting inspected I am coming after you.
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:47:43 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: cuban leaf
I just pray a bomber never hides C4 up his rectum.
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:47:58 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: BigKahuna
They love the feel of leather and the smell of boots?................🤔
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:48:09 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
To: BigKahuna
The reason is because George W Bush was a terrible president who inconvenienced Americans for what terrorists did, and created vast new federal bureaucracies because he could.
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:48:30 AM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: BigKahuna
It’s a plot devised by the Global Sock Manufacturing Consortium to shame People into throwing away their old Socks with holes in them and replacing them with brand new Socks.
Think of OPEC and replace Oil with Socks, it becomes OSEC...
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:48:58 AM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
To: BigKahuna
JNap said ‘The System Worked!’.
What about that so called ‘Underwear Bomber’? Remember him?
He was a young guy from Africa. I half expected the TSA to start demanding that all passengers remove all their underwear before boarding any flights. For some reason, that hasn’t yet happened.
To: BigKahuna
They own stock in companies that make socks?
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:50:19 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: BigKahuna
Simple answer:
Security theatre
It isn't about security, it is about collecting federal paychecks and benefits. And performing theatre for the public.
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:50:21 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: BigKahuna
Why Does TSA Make Flyers Remove Their Shoes?
Islam.
No other reason.
Islam.
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:51:16 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BigKahuna
They should have a way to be pre-screened to avoid all of this, oh, it should be FREE.
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:51:45 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: BigKahuna
I joined the Trusted Traveler program to avoid this, the zapper machine, and to expedite entry into the country.
Also, lines are much, much shorter.
To: BigKahuna
We need a targeted profiling of passengers, not an outright harassment of law-abiding citizens.
To: BigKahuna
because Bin Laden and the New World Order won. If he could laugh in hell, he would.
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:51:59 AM PDT
by
Theophilus
(Ich bin ein Hong Konger)
To: BigKahuna
I don’t have an issue with the scanning. But lately, at one end or the other, there is this TSA guy shouting at the lines of people giving conflicting instructions and even though I know what to do, confuses me and a lot of other passengers and we end up in wrong line and he chews us out for that and makes us feel like idiots.
When they are normal and calm and speak normally no issue.
They remind me of sadistic drill sergeants.
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:52:26 AM PDT
by
SolidRedState
(I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
To: BigKahuna
I just got a NEXUS card which means I don’t have to take off my shoes for TSA. Of course with two metal hips I always set off the alarm bells so I always get the wand treatment.
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