Posted on 11/09/2010 7:22:39 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
NEW DELHI (AP) ― An Indian lawmaker from Punjab said Tuesday she had asked President Barack Obama to put a stop to the U.S. border practice of frisking Sikh turbans.
Sikhs worldwide have long protested the American security measure as discriminatory and unnecessary in a world with machines for body scanning and metal detection.
New U.S. guidelines put into effect two weeks ago no longer require air passengers to remove turbans if doing so makes them uncomfortable, the U.S. Transport Security Administration said.
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I hear ya. See post # 20.
OMG!! They better NOT stop frisking turbans!!!
P.S. As it stands the new naked scanners are randomly picked by boarding pass (so the TSA agent does not look like they are picking) So all other pain in the butt security measures taking things off...whether it is a coat,vest,jacket,hat,turbin should all still be done.
Why every person is not made to go through the naked scanner yet is beyond me. It may have changed yesterday even... I don’t know.Possibly internationally all go through the naked scanner now I don’t know.
Hands off the turban (but let’s fire up the x-ray machine for the jockey shorts of that white guy in the Cleveland Browns sweatshirt standing next in line....)
A Brownie shirt is begging to be frisked because whoever wears it is a nut :)
Great!!!
My crotch can be targeted for a matter of severl hand grabs-—but a complete turban is ignored.
Not going to fly anymore. Will drive—no matter the time. If I have a family death, they will just have to hold the funeral a few days later or leave me out of the loop.
That’s just what Indira Gandhi said once . . .
I Gotcha! Great thought, too bad he didn’t!
Sorry, missed the “s” in she.
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