Some bizarro-looking photo on a scanner doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the people on the Lockerbie flight were inconvenienced when they got scattered across half of Scotland. This is one of those times when the government is damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Some combination of profiling, technology and armed agents on certain flights would seem to be best but I’d hate to be the person who has to sign off on it. You know they are going to be crucified no matter what.
Stop the PC bullshit. 90 year old women aren’t hijacking planes, Middle Eastern guys in their 20s are.
And yet, Israel manages to stay safe, without giving me a sack rub.
I think there is a lot they can do....There are supposedly bomb sniffing dogs and I believe machines that sense explosives. Could this be a payout to Michael CHertoff and his lobbying efforts—he was in Bush administration Homeland Security and now CEO of scanner company. I think every member of Congress, their staff, and the dear leader and his wife and 13 year-old should have to go thru this...tired of Washington Elite exempting themselves from their laws!
Thirteen year old girls are going to have to go thru it?!?!?! Yet we wont profile young middle-eastern men buying one-way cash tickets with no luggage....hmm
Don’t know if I agree with this thought. Are other nations using these same security procedures on their passengers? Didn’t the underwear bomber come from a different nation to the US? If so he would already be on the plane and the photo scanner wouldn’t matter. Everyday in our nation people our profiled. If there is a burglary, a murder, a rape, anything that causes harm to society. However, when we are talking about a large group of radicals who fit a profile and want to cause harm to a very large number we ignore profiling. The top priority should be protecting the homeland and its people not protecting the terrorists. If the current administration would stand up and say “I don’t give a damn about PC, I care about safety” there would be no need for them to be criticized.
I am perfectly content to risk having a Lockerbie-type event every few years in exchange for ending this nonsense.
Some bizarro-looking photo on a scanner doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the people on the Lockerbie flight were inconvenienced when they got scattered across half of Scotland. This is one of those times when the government is damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
And it’s false logic to suggest that the Lockerbie victims would be alive with the porn scanners, but not with the 2009 security levels.
The real question is whether you have ANY limits to what liberties you surrender for an increment of safety. Cavity searches of all passengers if you were certain it saved one life?
For many people, this crosses the line. Do you even have a line?