Posted on 11/24/2010 6:54:15 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
The TSA says flight attendants will be able to bypass the agency's new airport security procedures, effective immediately... In an email to Bloomberg, TSA spokesman Nicholas Kimball said, "Flight attendants, like pilots, are a known and trusted group."
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Here's an idea: profile FOR likely suspects, and assume everyone else is known and trusted.
This garbage I'm hearing about the underwear bomber being the catalyst for this is ridiculous. The guy was a suspected TERRORIST ALREADY. No one was surprised. Hell, even the guy's FATHER was trying to warn the authorities, IIRC.
And now we have nuns being groped...all in a violation of the fourth amendment. Searches and seizures need to be reasonable and with probable cause.
In Obamaland, you can’t ask illegals for proof of identity, but you can strip-search every American citizen at an airport.
In Obamaland, we drop bombs on people in the remote mountains of Pakistan, but we leave our entire Southern Border wide open.
In Obamaland, the First Lady proposes spending $400 million for healthy salad bars in school, while the Gov’t “Safe Schools” Czar wants to teach kids about “fisting.”
In Obamaland, every American citizen is forced to buy Gov’t approved health-insurance, but no one can make you prove you are a citizen.
Welcome to Bizzaro Obamaland, once known as the United States.
All the rest of us subjects are under suspicion of wanting to subvert our government because we don’t like their protection extortion racket. Incredible.
In all reality they already do profile: http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/layers/bdo/index.shtm
Behavioral Detection Officers (BDO) are profiling folks all day long. It’s their job. It’s just not PC to use the word “profiling” just like the government has “quota’s” for minorities and women for employment but they don’t use that word anymore either.
It’s very clear—Napolitano, Obama and the rest are a combination of useful idiots and tyrants. (The “idiot” in useful idiot has real meaning, by the way.)
The idiot’s greatest fear is the hand of the tyrant.
The tyrant’s greatest fear is being an idiot.
In the end, each succombs to his greatest fear.
Arent they used to being patted down and groped anyway lol?
CAIR is now telling their members to resist both scans and pat-downs. This will be the final nail in Big Sis’ coffin.
pat downs themselves are exception events since most people don’t get pat-downs. They are supposedly triggered by behavior, setting off detectors, not willing to go through other security measures etc It seems no one should be exempt if they create suspicion. Also couldn’t a terrorist impersonate a flight attendant?
I am not saying there’s a conspiracy here but my observation of all the photos and youtubes I’ve seen reveal that everyone being patted down is Caucasian. Is it just me? Surely that can’t be the ‘policy’,,,but I see picture after picture and one interview after another and the people who are coming forward are Caucasian. Any thoughts?
Flight attendents, politicians and pilots are exempt, I guess thats one way of shutting them up. And now that they are exempt they won’t be worrying about the rest of the public.
“Non-Muslims, like flight attendants and like pilots, are a known and trusted group.” True or false?
It is good to know that there is some profiling going on. However, I wonder how many of these Behavioral Detection Officers are actually employed by the TSA. If I were to guess, based on appearances alone, I would assume that the numbers are quite low. Most of the TSA agents I have seen and encountered don’t appear to be highly educated and trained. They don’t look like they are “looking” for behaviors. They are just trying to get their job done, which is to move people from one part of an assembly line to the next point.
Since it was Muslims that caused all this I think that every Muslim flying on a plane should be subject to scans and searches.
As long as regular citizens, children, little old ladies, nuns and John Q public are subjected to thios there should be no exceptions to the searches.
...so are House and Senate members, meaning if you were hoping Nancy Pelosi would be forced to suffer the indignities inflicted on the masses, you’ll be disappointed. As for pilots and flight attendents, the Obama administration is probably just caving to the unions again.
Tagline change.
You watch too many porn movies.
Some of the sheep willing to go through the x-ray scanners are still patted down anyway.
Now, you won’t hear a peep from the pilots or flight attendants about the way the passengers.....their customers....are being mis-treated by the Touching Some A$$.
And when the airlines go bankrupt and the pilots and flight attendants wind up on the unemployment line, see if I give a sh*t.
In the words of the late Dinah Shore, “See the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet....” Made by Obama Motors.
Didn’t they indicate they wouldn’t be searching Muslim ladies in burkas? (DOH!)
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