Passengers can expect double screening (Sticking it to everyone equally in the name of security)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/10/06 | Leslie Miller - ap

[vox humana]

More insanity at TSA and DHS. They're doing this to us because they refuse to profile.

True.

If everyone stopped flying in protest, the airline industry would quickly put pressure on Bush to change these insane rules and start profiling.

[savedbygrace]

Next month I'm driving 750 miles each way on a business trip. Financially, it costs less to drive, without considering the travel hassles.

[colorado tanker]

Peroxide is pretty powerful stuff in the right concentrations.

My wife has wondered for years about sports bottles and how easy it would be to do something like this. Turns out she was spot on.

I guess from now on when I haul my meal on board, since the airline won't feed me, I won't be able to bring on my own drink.

[Soccer-Dad777]

GerogiaDawg32 said:
"Ok, someone answer me this..what happens..what happens IF the next time they try to sneak something onto a plane and have it hidden in a body cavity?? it's not out of the realm of possibility considering these guys will go through any lengths to blow stuff up and need ways to get it onboard..

what happens to the travelling public then?"

I'be been wondering all day about the same thing. Even cavity searchs won't reveal anything if the a$$holes figure out how to insert the explosive surgically somewhere in the body. Surely, there is a passage in the "Koran" that justifies this. Maybe they'll get 73 virgins when they get to heaven, instead of the customary allotment for martyrs of 72.

[Tinian]

Multiple Choice Test

Terry Nichols was:

1: A totally innocent 40 year-old white American.
2: A 40 year-old white American tool of Bill Clinton.
3: A 40 year-old white American tool of Karl Rove.
4: A 40 year-old white American wrongly linked to Abu Sayyaf and Operation Bojinka.

[Darnright]

>I'm driving everywhere, not flying.<

Here's a way to get around all this uproar about flying.

[NormsRevenge]

I used to travel a lot , I don't anymore. I am glad you have become as accustomed as the rest of those doing it daily.

If having double the delays involved is OK with you and others, great.

I think it's just a damn shame that our gubamint is so clueless or unwilling to go after the real high percentage potential perps and instead just nets the whole damn lot and spoil journies and inflame folks unnecessarily.

[VOA]

Passengers can expect double screening (Sticking it to everyone equally in the name of security)

just speaking for myself...I'd rephrase it this way:

Passengers can expect double screening (Just to avoid the insane whining
of ACLU and CAIR)

or

Passengers can expect double screening (So that American Infidels will
evenually "come to Allah" to avoid all this Bravo Sierra)

Any ideology that forces me to spend 3 hours in preparation
for a domestic flight...is the one I won't miss if it's erased from
the planet.

[Bella_Bru]

Oh good. Now the airlines will have an excuse to charge you for a glass of water. How perfect for them.

[Peter W. Kessler]

A keeper. Thanks

[Smartaleck]

Do "black" American-Muslims fit the same profile as those from the Middle East?

[Soccer-Dad777]

I'm half Italian and half Irish, but am olive-skinned and dark-eyed. I say, profile away! (And, in fact, I always seem to get yanked out of security checkpoints in airport terminals. Maybe the screeners are "profiling" in their own, random, subconscious way. I'm all for it...

[Dead Corpse]

Or my urine sample collection.

In my case, I'd rather prove mines Jello by sampling some of it personally. You are on your own with your "collection" there Howard Hughes... ;-)

[Alberta's Child]

There's a good reason why profiling Middle Eastern-looking men is a bad idea. Here's the leading sentence in an article just posted on FR from The London Times . . .

A young white Muslim convert and a teenager were among 24 terrorist suspects being questioned last night about an alleged plot to detonate suicide bombs on five US-bound aircraft, The Times has learnt.

[My2Cents]

LOL

[NormsRevenge]

Your name matches your question well.

Is there a perfect system short of what we see being applied today and again?
No.

Is there a reasonable approach that could be taken rather than lumping everyone into one mass group of suspects until cleared?
We have had 5 years to come up with one.

[ClearBlueSky]

I can't watch any more of the news. It makes my brain boil!
You wanna stop planes blowing up?
You START by not allowing Muslims on them. At all. Ever. For any reason Age 1-100 years- Muslims don't fly, period.If they can't get there by camel, they can't get there at all.

THEN you do widespread searches like this IF there is reason to believe that non-Muslims are being recruited.
Its Bass-Ackwards.
Hello....George? World??
Countries without Muslims are not worried about internal terrorism. They can't hit you if they aren't here/aboard planes/working near planes.
Worldwide Islam should be punished until it stops producing barbarians. Maybe if enough 'good' Muslims( lol ) can't travel they'll get mad enough at the 'bad' Muslims to deal with those giving their sweet, innocent 'religion' a bad name.
Gotta stop - can't laugh hysterically and type.

[Dead Corpse]

Seriously though, I am one of those poor clods that has to fly tomorrow. I've got a family reunion to go to on Saturday and the tickets are already paid for.

I was nervous before, because of the 8-22 speculations, now this...

It sucks, as I normally LOVE flying. If I ever meet one of these idiot Jihadi's in person I'm gonna kick 'em right in the nuts.

[Inspectorette]

Next month I'm driving 750 miles each way on a business trip. Financially, it costs less to drive, without considering the travel hassles.

Same here - later this month we're driving from Oregon to Southern California to visit the grandkids. If we were flying, it'd cost us about $300 each for RT tix, plus renting a car in SoCal, PLUS parking our vehicle at PDX for 10 days.

Even with the price of gas, it still works out cheaper, even if we stop halfway (Stockton, CA) for the night. Not to mention, we love the drive through the Siskiyou Mountains.

[ErnBatavia]

I guess from now on when I haul my meal on board, since the airline won't feed me, I won't be able to bring on my own drink.

Ya think you'll still want to eat that tuna sammwich after 3 or 4 TSA folks have stuck their noses into it?

I'm going to guess that - if for no other reason than the economy of the airport concessions - passengers will be able to purchase "cleared" sodas, waters, toiletries, etc. once past the first tier of security.