Posted on 11/23/2010 6:34:58 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty
Americans aren't crazy about the new airport pat-downs. But according to a new poll, nearly half still back them, with even more supporting full body scanning.
Forty-eight percent of Americans said the pat-downs are justified, while 50% said they are against the new measures, a new Washington Post/ABC News poll revealed.
Meanwhile, the majority 64% said they supported the use of full-body scanners while 32% said they were against it.
The 385 full-body scanners being used at 68 airports across the country have sparked an outcry from flyers, who argue they're virtual strip searches because they produce invasive, intimate images of passengers.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/11/23/2010-11-23_tsa_fullbody_scanners_at_airports_supported_by_majority_of_americans_half_agains.html#ixzz167D3ikMx
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You depress me because you are right...
I talked to some people that travel frequently and oddly enough they didn’t have a problem with the scanners. These are normally conservative folks but they got irritated when I mentioned all the TSA crap going on and the potentially cancer causing radiation from scanners and the bacterial/virus spreading gloves they use during pat downs when groping grandmothers after that same glove was down the skirt of a traveling hooker with 5 kinds of STDs. They seemed to resent the people opting out of the scanners as jerks for slowing them down. I sort of lost respect for them not seeing the bigger picture.
Just watched an interview with Thomas Sawyer, the guy with the stoma. He and his daughter seem very understanding, forgiving...she seems to think safety is paramount and that the new measures somehow provide it.
I fear America is lost.
AND the pilot and the stewardesses.
I say it is time to scan-&-grope the Obamas when they board Air Farce One then. He has a troubled background (associations with known terrorists, radicals, and inconsistent paperwork) that would cause him to fail a White House security clearance.
EVERY passenger means EVERY passenger, including the pro-terrorist perp in the Oval office.
I can't wait to use that line the next time I'm on the losing end of an argument! LOL
Last night I had a dream of looking at a satellite map, and seeing that half the US, everything from the Mississippi to the East Coast, was totally covered with white fog, as if some monster snowstorm hung over it.
It may have been a sort of mind map, in which case the fog is even deadlier than a weather phenomenon.
LOL
What's TSA auf Deutsch?
“You mean like the ongoing saga at the Ground Zero mosque?”
Well,,,, yah. But I was referring more to stuff being pushed through the lame duck sessions.
I don’t think an unconstitutional police state action is up for a popularity vote. The press can manufacture all the polls they want and it does not change the fact that what TSA is doing is both illegal and insane.
One thing I noticed is that the Obamabots are defending the the radiation porn shots/sexual molestion policy by their Dear Reader like there is no tomorrow. For the Left, this is a politically correct power issue. Should innocent Americans force the government to stop pretending everyone is an equal risk to the Islamics, they would have to focus on the Islamics or throw in the towel of this pretend game of homeland security.
Liberals worry more about al-Qaeda members captured by the US than they do about American citizens being groped.
It’s a profound waste of time to rip out an elderly bladder cancer victim’s medical waste bag. In addition to humiliating.
I don’t think we ever did that at Abu Gharib, did we?
poll the people who fly! only
To have an honest poll, the pollsters would need to contact those who've either been through process or at least those traveling now on airlines and subject to process, instead this is a phone poll of land line phones with an actual person on the other end!
Guess Ill just have to boycott airports.
Too bad we can’t fly EL AL Airlines everywhere! They profile!
They are just afraid of the “right wing terrorists” that their comrades at MSNBC warned them about. You know, those scary old people who go Tea Parties. You also never know when Teabagger granny is using the little grandkids as bomb carries.
/end libtardation
Right, like I said they failed to see the bigger picture, and they may have thought of me as just a paranoid lunatic far right tea bagger... They are conservative, but they are more the old establishment type Republican.
The only valid responses are from those who have been subjected to the enhanced pat down.
No other poll matters. This bull is simply designed to enhance Obamao. We’re not impressed.
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