Posted on 11/17/2010 9:19:13 AM PST by rawhide
WASHINGTON -- The Transportation Security Administration says airline passengers won't get out of body imaging screening or pat-downs based on their religious beliefs.
TSA chief John Pistole told the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday that passengers who refuse to go through a full-body scanner machine and reject a pat-down won't be allowed to board, even if they turned down the in-depth screening for religious reasons.
"That person is not going to get on an airplane," Pistole said in response to a question from Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., on whether the TSA would provide exemptions for passengers whose religious beliefs do not allow them to go through a physically revealing body scan or be touched by screeners.
Civil rights groups contend the more intensive screening violates civil liberties including freedom of religion, the right to privacy and the constitutional protection against unreasonable searches
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I was just on flights in NC and FL and not even a hint of full-body or pat-down at any of the three airports I used (RDU, CLT, ORL). Anyone have a list of the airports to avoid until the agency can be brought to heel?
To be honest, I don’t mind the scanner or pat downs as long as there are no exceptions. But if we give Muslim women a pass then we truly are insane!!
If non-Muslim women start showing up wearing Muslim-style headscarfs and claiming to be Muslims, maybe they can take advantage of the same privileges.
The US--founded on the principle that "all men are created equal" but the modern corrollary is that Muslims are more equal than other people.
Conspiracy theory for the day:
obammy and Manet Neopolitan double down with the invasive airport screening, the Pubs take control of Congress and FORCE the current administration to back-off, THEN a mysterious rash of successful hijackings occur making the Pubs look bad...
Not too hard to believe the President would sacrifice a few hundred lives to make himself look better....
It’s looking more and more like the only way we’re going to break the TSA Gestapo’s grip is by mass refusal. One or two riots at the nation’s larger airports might convince these thugs that we will not be groped with impunity.
I may rethink my opposition to the naked scanners and aggressive body searches if those measures have the effect of keeping Muslims off US airplanes.
I think it’s just that Pistole wants to see everybody naked. I think we should all write to him and ask if we could just send him some naked pictures of ourselves in lieu of having to go through the scanners.
I went through this airport 5 weeks ago. Went through the enhanced pat-down. My hands were swabbed and was told I tested positive for explosives. Swabbed twice, same results. Was told that if I went through the boby scanner, then I would not have been found postive. More to the story, but eventually was let go to catch my flight.
Thought this was more an intimidation effort by the TSA than anything else, to accept the naked body scanners.
We will see if I experience the same results next time I fly.
Note that he never says that if the moslem women accept a pat down, that the pat down is the exact same one that will be inflicted on non moslem women. CAIR came up with a "culturally sensitive" pat down which would have the moslem women taken to a private room where THEY (NOT the TSA staffer (s), who would be female(s)) would pat down their head and neck area. Then the moslem female's hands would be inspected . That's it, apparently. Note too that having this "search" performed behind closed doors would prevent outraged passengers from even knowing the moslem females are being spared the humiliation inflicted on dhimmi teens, young women, grandmothers...
Those who give up essential liberty to gain temporary security derserve neither.
That’s what they say, but what will they actually DO?
On 9/11 box cutters were smuggled on board commercial aircraft by folks that did not have to go through the normal security checks that passengers do.
In the video linked below, we see that there are way to many criminals that work at airports.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/hidden-video-catches-airport-crime-11457563
Given that, I think it would be plausible that a terrorist could “opt out” of the scanner with the knowledge that there is a sympathetic TSA agent, (an inside man) that will allow the terrorist through, regardless of the amount of explosives the terrorist may have on his person.
Let’s see what happens after the first lawsuit by pro-jihadi groups. Will death cultists get a free pass while 12 year old girls and 82 year old grandmothers get groped?
Our government has proven time and time again that it really doesn’t care about the normal people, as long as the politically correct victims are kept happy.
I don’t trust them either.
Ironic that it was the pigs that were “more equal” in Animal Farm....
That's MY plan. I have a real burka from Afghanistan, the blue one with the eyescreen, and I'm willing to make a scene.
I have mixed emotions about the full-body scanner. But the groping and fondling pat downs is another story. IMHO this is just another Marxist control initiative. The Israelis have the most effective screening protocol on the planet and it does not include groping and fondling people in public.
I think the Marxist-directed TSA may have jumped the shark on this one. I’m flying to Hawaii in January to visit my son for before he leaves for his fifth deployment in to harm’s way. If me or me wife are fondled and groped I probably will tolerate it on the trip out. But if they try on the way back I’m gonna push back.
riiiiight.....that will last until the first outraged CAIR spokesman starts screaming on CNN
The Transportation Security Administration says airline passengers won’t get out of body imaging screening or pat-downs based on their religious beliefs.
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