AQ ping!
There seems to be a lot of movement out there. It seems pretty clear to me that one of these people will be spectacularly successful in the next couple of weeks.
How about this? We build a very serious looking device big enough for a person to stand in. Tell everyone it causes any explosives inside it when it’s activated to detonate. Then you insist everyone boarding a flight step in, close the door and wait a few seconds while lights flash, sounds emanate and perhaps a small cloud of vapor appears. Then the door opens and the person proceeds to board the plane. Make sure there’s some dried blood and tissue in the corners and on the top panel. The catch is, it does nothing. It’s just for looks and intended to identify those who think they are carrying explosives. Anyone who doesn’t want to be run through it can step aside and be searched by hand. It’s up to them. Or, they can step aside and go through a full body scanner. Again, it’s up to them. Or, they can turn around and find another way to get where they want to go.
Failing in this I would like to see them train pigs to detect explosives. Then give the Muslims their choice of being sniffed by a pig or a drug dog. Again, it’s up to them.
The only solution is to accelerate the final test phase of the Next Generation of transportation.Isolated Extremists, Inc
In fact, if religious reasons were used to screen fliers fitting a "profile", make them eat bacon to prove their religious beliefs to be other-than-Muslim (Jihadists).
If you won't submit to verification then don't fly, period.
Pretty soon, every air traveler will have to be examined by proctologists and gynecologists. And after that, every train traveler, and every theater-goer, etc etc.
Either that, or we learn that the danger comes from the people who want to kill us, not from last decade’s tactics & weapons.
Interesting article. The airport director says that the body scanner would have detected the explosives and the reporter and editor say that they wouldn’t have. Don’t you love new journalism.
I have tested these machines. Unless the operator was comatose, the explosives would have been detected.
They have one of these at my local airport (RIC). The scanning process is fast. It’s the process that slows everything down.
Everything that you don’t have to remove to go though the x-ray machine you have to take off before entering the scanner. Like my belt and wallet. And don’t have more earthly possessions that you can carry in one hand. For example, I had my boarding pass for a connecting flight in one pocket and the receipt for my checked bag in the other.
Four scans later and I was though. Now I know to just stick all of that stuff in my skivvies.