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TSA: New Scanners Kept Many Illegal or Dangerous Items Off Planes This Year
FoxNews.com ^ | November 18, 2010 | Diane Macedo

Posted on 11/18/2010 12:55:19 PM PST by kingu

Airport passenger screening measures have become a touchy issue in the U.S. in the past week, but in the past year the controversial measures have detected more than 130 prohibited, illegal or dangerous items that otherwise would have made it onto airplanes, the Transportation Security Administration says.

The TSA now requires all passengers at some U.S. airports either to pass through a full-body scanning device, which reveals everything beneath their clothing, or to submit to a thorough pat-down inspection -- a choice that has some travelers livid about their loss of privacy.

But the TSA says keeping passengers safe is its top priority, and the new measures are necessary.

"This year alone, the use of advanced imaging technology has led to the detection of over 130 prohibited, illegal or dangerous items," TSA spokesman Greg Soule told FoxNews.com. The TSA would not disclose exactly what those items were, but it said they included weapons like ceramic knives and various drugs -- including a syringe filled with heroine hidden in a passenger’s underwear.

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KEYWORDS: bodysearch; scams; scanners; tsa; tsapervs
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So, let's see... Number of terrorists caught: Zero. Number of bombings prevented: Zero. Number of illegal searches resulting in finding illegal items: 130. Pretending this is for national security and soaking down billions each year: Priceless.
1 posted on 11/18/2010 12:55:24 PM PST by kingu
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To: kingu

Hey, My nail clippers don’t count!


2 posted on 11/18/2010 12:56:12 PM PST by TexGuy (If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
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To: kingu
So, let's see... Number of terrorists caught: Zero.

How many were deterred?

Number of bombings prevented: Zero.How many would have happened without screening? We don't know. Your argument is sort of like Obama's counting of jobs saved.

3 posted on 11/18/2010 12:57:50 PM PST by SeeSac
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To: kingu

I’d like to see the pile of guns and bombs they found so far. Oh wait, there aren’t any.


4 posted on 11/18/2010 12:57:59 PM PST by tractorman (I never miss a chance to tweak a liberal.)
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To: kingu

among the items they are counting are my little 3” combination knife, nail file, shears... which I surrendered each time I used to ride the airlines.... I now boycott... if I can’t get there any other way, I don’t go.... only exemption is death in the family


5 posted on 11/18/2010 12:59:13 PM PST by bareford101 (For me, there is no difference in a tolerant, open mind and a cess pool. Both are open to filth.)
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To: kingu
130 prohibited, illegal or dangerous items

Interestingly they don't tell you what the items were. A bottle of water? Baby formula maybe? Nail clippers? Was the intent to do harm, our just innocent? Nail file, pin knife, pencil sharpener, razor for shaving?

6 posted on 11/18/2010 12:59:15 PM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: kingu

Exactly. Nothing that was found would have taken down a flight.

Remember they justified doing all this on PASSENGERS because of the CARGO PLANE inkjet bombs.

Yup people will buy anything. Public schools teach people to believe everything people in ‘authority’ say, not really sit there and critically analyze the answers people give them, they are like the goats on animal farm that just parrot the authorities’ answers when OTHER people raise a logical objection.


7 posted on 11/18/2010 12:59:40 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: kingu

This is about as useful a report as those “jobs created or saved” reports.

How many safe flights were created or saved by this process? ;-)


8 posted on 11/18/2010 1:00:26 PM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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To: kingu

Nothing to suggest these new scanners found anything the old metal detectors wouldn’t have caught.


9 posted on 11/18/2010 1:01:16 PM PST by circlecity
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To: tractorman

When ITEMS are outlawed, only Outlaws will have ITEMS.


10 posted on 11/18/2010 1:01:31 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: TexGuy
Nor do the knitting needles, ballpoint pens, or children's safety scissors. But we wouldn't want to rain on their fantasy. ;-)
11 posted on 11/18/2010 1:02:20 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: kingu

“TSA: New Scanners Kept Many Illegal or Dangerous Items Off Planes This Year”

What? Like Muslims?


12 posted on 11/18/2010 1:06:02 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (FreeRepublic......Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: kingu
Literally millions of people fly every year and they managed to come up with barely over 100 examples of 'dangerous' items.

That's statistically insignificant. It's so far to the right of the decimal point that it doesn't even matter.

13 posted on 11/18/2010 1:06:02 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: MsLady
130 prohibited, illegal or dangerous items

Interestingly they don't tell you what the items were. A bottle of water? Baby formula maybe? Nail clippers? Was the intent to do harm, our just innocent? Nail file, pin knife, pencil sharpener, razor for shaving?

How many of these terrorist smugglers were arrested and prosecuted? If they did not find anyone intending to use these 'dangerous items' maliciously, then the have done nothing.

14 posted on 11/18/2010 1:06:57 PM PST by Never on my watch (Touch my junk and I call the cops!)
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To: MsLady

The “prohibited” items are probably mostly liquids people forgot to put in small bottles. Read an article this morning about a guy who had bought some special southern salad dressing for his wife and forgot that it was in too big a bottle. They took it away from him, so that’s one of the 130 “prohibited items” that they caught. I wonder if 130 refers to the number of incidents, or the different kinds of stuff they confiscated.


15 posted on 11/18/2010 1:07:03 PM PST by butterdezillion (.)
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To: kingu
including a syringe filled with heroine hidden in a passenger’s underwear.

And someone was going to bring down a plane with that, how?

I'm going on the self-declared no-fly list too. Nothing short of a funeral will get me on a commercial plane now, and I'll drive to that if at all possible. Anyone know of any good ways to use up ~98,000 Delta frequent flier miles besides actual air travel?

16 posted on 11/18/2010 1:08:33 PM PST by Liberty1970 ("Religion is a substitute for the relationship God wants with you." - RoadTest)
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To: butterdezillion

Exactly what I was thinking.


17 posted on 11/18/2010 1:10:26 PM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: kingu

130 items in 365 days? How many airports?

I mean, a total of 1 item about every three days in perhaps 375 airports? One item per 375 airports every two or three days. Wow, how underwhelming.

How many of those items were likely to be used in a terrorist attack or incident? (HINT: They do not know, because they do not profile passengers, they confiscate items.)

Idiots.


18 posted on 11/18/2010 1:10:31 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: Never on my watch
Exactly and that's what I'm thinking.

While the TSA is busy molesting much of the American population, terrorist are crossing our unprotected borders. This is total insanity.

19 posted on 11/18/2010 1:11:42 PM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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...98,000 Delta frequent flier miles besides actual air travel?

I got magazine subscriptions. They could give me a first class ticket to anywhere and I wouldn't fly now anyway.

20 posted on 11/18/2010 1:11:53 PM PST by Never on my watch (Touch my junk and I call the cops!)
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