Here ya go...
Posted on 01/11/2010 5:59:39 PM PST by george76
I’m surprised that Muslims are not screaming about people getting to see their junk and their women’s junk.
The picture looks like a nekkid C-3PO.
She could lose her balance eh!
It's a strip-search, normally reserved for inmates in high-security prisons. The fact that it's conducted with technology doesn't mean it's not a strip-search.
Shouldn't the same standard of reasonable suspicion apply to conducting a technological strip-search as to a traditional strip-search? Or should police be allowed conduct random strip-search road blocks in the same way they run sobriety checkpoints, in the interests of preventing crime?
Seems to me that there's have been a number of lawsuits in the past about strip searches done without justification in such places. I don't find it justified just because they plan to do it to everybody. And I don't find it justified to strip search everybody just because Muslims are acting up.
The Constitution doesn't say that our right to privacy is limited to only certain places. And it's pretty clear that we have freedom from search unless a warrant is issued.
Technology is not the answer it is a costly boondoggle easily defeated because it is so defined.
Further Because the machines are so costly they are also so profitable that the companies that manufacture them can thru financial contributions to our Elected Officials drive the purchases of equipment that simply will be defeated in short order.
Profiling is the answer.. is working and has worked for El Al Airlines for more than 20 years.
W
The right kind of technology is not a costly boondoggle, but it is much more effective when it is kept secret and the terrorists don’t know about it. To defeat terrorism, it takes a combined approach of technology (including biometric ID tech to identify human threats with surveillance cameras) AND profiling as you suggest.
Should’a took Slims with ya when ya moved yer office !.....:o)
LOL
Of course they can. When someone inevitably gets through, and we know they will, how will they have an after action report without stored images?
I do agree we need both..
For Political reasons our leaders will not face the need for Human Profiling.
For corrupt reasons there is more profit concentrated in Machines than people.
Once the MIC gets a line up producing something they naturally want to sell as many as possible. The Company’s Lobbyists like all salesmen then spend their days shoving square peg MIC Widgets into every round hole where it doesn’t fit but makes a profit.
Our Elected and Appointed Oaf-ficials ever happy with another “Contribution” to their political campaign know full well which side their bread is buttered on and that side has big buck lobbyists driving the Technological “Fix” Train.
We saw that with the Wheeled Crapmobiles our leaders ordered by the 10s of thousands for the Iraq conflict.
They are crap but assembly lines were busy and lobbyists were busy and corporate profits for their production was up.
It did not matter that superior tracked vehicles sat from the outset unused by the thousands (In one case some 10,000 plus in one US Army Depot alone). No matter that untold numbers sat as pre-positioned war stocks across the world...(Remember the great Rumsfield Lie when the question was asked (Para) “Where is our Armor”?) It was sitting by the thousands in Army Depots. Even more sickening 100s more are sitting on the ocean floor perfectly servicable. Dumped there because they are old toys not new shiny ones.
They sit on the ocean floor no matter the human cost in terms of lives lost and destroyed among our troops. Instead of protecting the lives of our GIs they are now places for fish to fornicate.
It is the same thing with Airline Security.. the same model if you will at the TSA. They know full well no amount of technology alone will make the planes safe from terrorism.
Which makes the Techno Fix a never ending MIC Gravy Train.. With every successful attack requiring another billion Dollars worth of technological band aids.
As you aluded to in our open society the characteristics of most technological innovations are known to most 6th graders the day after the product hits the market. Those characteristics are largely fixed as I said and therefore “bad actors” (lol) can figure a way around them.
Working their way around well trained humans with good instincts?
That is a much harder, much more daunting task. One much more difficult to defeat.
When used in conjunction with a light dose of technology..you have El Al Airlines and their fantastic record of success. PBTJ LOL
So we agree in the end..
Further I support your point that we must stop the hemmorage of information on capabilities and systems employed in the WOT.. From You-Tube to the MSM.. we have to shut down the flow of intelligence our enemies receive simply by sufing the web and watching the nightly news..
W
Of course. Way easier.
I really don’t care. I don’t think it will stop the muzzies, but I don’t understand why people get so upset about this.
Evidently, you were never taught the virtue of MODESTY, nor were you granted the gift of self-effacement and general "politesse".
More's the pity, since you once seemed intelligent.
Just wait till they try to scan the first burka wearing moo. The resulting complaints and lawsuits will result in everyone BUT muslims getting scanned.
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