Posted on 08/20/2006 8:30:43 AM PDT by aculeus
I'd like to know where to sign up for the program. I'm looking for a part time gig to help with the war effort.
If random screeners wouldn't know if today is the day they get on a plane. Why tip them off about the fact they won't go on any plane they've not been assigned to?
That's a good point. I was thinking though that if you knew , you were riding with the passengers you were screening you would be extra cautious, knowing that if anything gets by, it could kill you. They could also help staff on the plane and monitor during flight time .
Yeah, it's good to know--but now the ACLU knows and that means a civil rights lawsuit that will try to end the program.
Anyone out there disagree with that?
ACLU really has no case and probably won't make a fuss. There's no expectation of privacy while in a public place. Police take pictures of demonstrators all the time. Surveillance cameras capture images of people walking along the street all the time. Really there's no invasion of privacy.
Long ago I saw an El Al spokesman say that they look for terrorits, not just weapons. On a flight from Buffalo I was randomly slected to have my suitcase rummaged. It was just me and youngsters coming home from Pope's Youth event. No likely terrorists, at all.
I've been randomly selected and the folks that I dealt with were very professional. Not a big deal in my opinion.
If your that uptight about it maybe you shouldn't fly?
The only way in which it is a big deal is that it is a stupid system. It is inefficient and ineffective, and that's a big deal.
We haven't been doing it for very long. I fly frequently and have seen it get more efficient at most airports.
Random cannot by definition be as efficient or effective as targeted.
"I've been nervous before."
I'd do both. Cover all the bases.
My two-point explantion of why no lawyers ever objected to preflight baggage inspection:
1. Lawyers fly.
2. Lawyers' mothers fly.
It's not an invasion of privacy--but if the screeners detect nervousness in all, or mostly all, young Muslim males and then search them, the ACLU could go into search and seizure law which is another cup of tea, saying they are de facto profiling according to ethnicity.
I'm not a ACLU lawyer and I came up with that in a couple of seconds after I read your post.
Why would they detect nervousness in all or most Muslim males? Are they an unusually nervous bunch?
Just the terrorists or the ones carrying explosives...
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