Another Freeper suggested the other day that we use all of this technological acumen to just build a machine that passengers can walk through at the airport that detonates explosives.
You’d have to sandbag it, vent it upward out the roof and make some L shaped approaches to protect other people from flying bone fragments and such, but that’s all easy.
Amazingly enough, there are even FReeper sheeple who apparently will allow the government to do anything in the interest of “security.” Well, we have a constitution for a reason, and it says the government must have probable cause AND a search warrant. The mere fact that I purchase an airline ticket is NOT probable cause that I’m a terrorist.
To those sheeple posting here, what are you going to do if there’s a body cavity bomb next? Oh! We’ve already had one, so you sheeple will now willingly spread ‘em...in the interest of “security” of course? Or, what if there’s a bombing at a football game, mall, or some other public event? Are you going to just surrender your rights because someone thinks there’s a risk? Just how much freedom are you sheeple willing to give up in the interest of (false) security?
You sheeple posters DO realize that there’s no end to this crap if we citizens don’t draw the line, don’t you? We are either free, or we are slaves of government. What’s it going to be?
And, how do we know that the person patting us down is not some sort of pervert they "mistakenly" hired?
And, how do we know that their isn't some guy by himself in a back room somewhere getting his jollies off?
And, now they are unionizing?
It is all about CONTROL.
What is next, disinfectant?
TSA intimidation tactics is the ONLY reason for the frisking. They are trying to break us. Pure and simple. Strong arm intimidation. Nothing less.
You’ll be arrested, handcuffed, taken to prison and raped.
How many Amtrak Passenger trains, with virtually no security procedures, have been "blown up" since 9/11 ?
How many NFL stadium events, with no radical security procedures in place, have been "blown up" ?
Why are there not simply police (of some sort) on commercial aircraft like any other assembly?
Given that the commercial aviation operation is little different than any other mass assembly why the paranoia and obsessed technical reaction directed exclusively at air travel?
Why isn't Greyhound Bus subject to body scanners?
Where is the TSA on Manhattan or Bay Area commuter ferries?
What is, and has been, the safest mode of distance travel in the US?
Given that each and every one of us is going to die from some medical or traumatic complication, why is smoking, or trans-fat, selected as any more legally abhorrent than any other affliction?
Is it true Michael Chertoff is invested in body scanners?
Just wondering.
Mandate the same choice of pornographic, databased nude body scan OR sexual molestation for...
Private Jets.
This problem stops THE DAY this is implemented.
And there's NO DHS-Level DEFENSE. You telling me one of these can't be used by a suicide bomber?
This is EXACTLY what happened to me a few years ago when “the wand” went off at crotch level due to a bodysuit I was wearing with snaps between my legs. I was whisked into a “File Room” with two large gorilla types who literally had me take my pants to my ankles and the bodysuit unsnapped and up to my neck. I literally stood there stark naked with a gloved hand up my crotch. It was one of the most horrific things I’ve ever experienced. And this was a number of years ago in Chicago!!
Don't bath for 3 or 4 days before the trip. Refuse to go through the scan, requiring a pat down.
Just make it REAL "enjoyable" for the groper.
Something tells me that not many Indian/Pakistani are singled out for the scan.
Next time I fly I will show up in a Speedo bathing suit and decline the scanner if asked. I wonder if TSA will do a full body pat down if I am esentially naked. The only area to pat down would be my butt and crotch. Grab away fools!!
At O’Hare Airport in Chicago, according to some travelers, you pass through the standard metal detector first. If you don’t set it off, then you go on to your plane. If you set it off, you are diverted for the scan or pat down.