Posted on 10/27/2010 2:36:25 PM PDT by Citizen X_Area 51
Airline passengers nationwide will be subjected to new aggressive and controversial body searches likened to “foreplay” pat-downs under the expansion of a program tested at Logan International Airport.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
James Madison
Just pass gas on them when they’re doing the ankle-frisk (and their face is arse-level). The searches will become progressively less invasive as the movement grows...
I’m such a child...
It’s a big to do over nothing. Palm in, palm out, it’ll be over before you know it.
We could all fill books with reasons the TSA as an entity and its staffers as individuals are a failure and a waste of time and money but this type of thing is, sadly, perhaps the only thing that may get some of the sheep out there to wake up.
I like this idea! Probably the only thing we can do anymore against an overreaching federal government. I have refused to travel via air for the last 7 years and I do not miss a single minute of air travel. I averaged 120 flights a year for 26 years and at the end I could no longer tolerate the union mentality, the airlines and the TSA.
I was in Oklahoma last week. I left out of Tulsa. They have the new body scanners there. I opted out of the screening and chose the pat down. They offered to take me to a private room, I declined. Let the spectacle it is be shown.
The TSA is radical Islam’s greatest success.
That’s actually not a bad idea. Seriously.
I’ll just eat lots of raw onions before my next trip.
I travel alot and it sucks-—even if you get used to it.
Especially at a busy airport and rushed through then gathering your items after the frisk. Too much Govt interference.
I’m wondering what they are doing about weapons/explosives in body cavities.
In law school I recall reading the case of a drug mule who was detained by customs folks after arousing suspicions. They simply detained this person until, well nature took its course and they recovered the cocaine laden sealed condoms which went through the suspect’s alimentary canal. The legal issue was whether the detention was constitutionally acceptable (and it was).
The technique - on a long flight - with binary explosives divvied up between several passengers? What are they doing to detect this possibility?
I agree. I am done with flying. I told the TSA lady last time and she said you can opt out of the x-ray if you do the pat down. I wanted to tell her go f y-self. I am done.
So you scream, Get your hands off my crotch you limp wristed SOB!
Jokes about burger-flippers aside, would any TSA agent you’ve encountered be a candidate for even an entry-level job in any company you’ve worked with or for? At the risk of answering my own question I can give an unequivocal ‘no.’
Their misunderstanding of their remit is evident in their misuse of their power. They mistake pettiness for thoroughness, rudeness for assertiveness, and demand strict compliance to so-called rules that vary wildly from airport to airport despite the Department of so-called Homeland Security.
A significant number of TSA staff will quickly resort to intimidation and/or threats (we’ve all heard the ‘Do you want to miss your flight?’ routine) - it’s the coward’s way out especially a coward who is lacking in judgment, common sense and/or formal education.
While failing to discern the true cause of airline terrorism thus far, all the same identical source that those in charge utterly refuse to identify, but which is known by all of us, including Juan Williams.
Man I hope they don’t make me bend over for a cavity search. I eat alot of chili at Wendys and usually wash it down with a couple 4-5 beers the night before I travel....
Everyone eat Bush's beans before flying!!
Alright! I hadn’t *planned* to travel, but this is pretty enticing. Thanks Citizen X_Area 51.
I have a friend who's a retired airline pilot. He retired about 10 years ago and hasn't flown since then.
I'm taking a vacation over the coming Thanksgiving holiday, and will drive for two days, each way, to avoid flying.
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