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.
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?
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?
...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.
CAIR is telling muslims to ask TSA to pat themselves down!!!!!!!
“If the officer confirms you were referred to secondary because of your head scarf, before you are patted down, you should remind the TSA officer, who should be of the same gender, that they are only supposed to pat down the area in question, in this scenario, your head and neck.
You can always request to pat down your own scarf, including head and neck area, and have the officer perform a residue swab of your hands.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20101124/pl_usnw/DC07469_1
So all a terrorist group has to do is to get one of them hired as a flight attendant?
Do you know how real profiling works? More specifically, do you know how the Israeli model of profiling works? (Since this is the model that I advocate.) FYI: It doesn’t work like a lot of people here seem to think that it does.
And that is the real problem ... it isn't that duh, the pilot can crash the plane, it is how does TSA at the entrance to the secure area know that what looks like a pilot is actually a pilot?
Anyone know what the ACLU has to say about all of this? I know when Bush was in office, anything and everything he proposed was immediately deemed illegal and a violation of peoples rights.
Just ban muslims from flying.
MSNBC says anyone opposed to the pat-downs and strip searches is a racist. (video)
Opposition to strip-searching 10 year olds is a vast conspiracy.
Holder / Obamaland bump for later.........
... after that it will be law enforcement
then the elderly
and then members of Congress and cabinet members
then members of state legislatures
then anyone with a union card
then minorities
etc. etc.
Meanwhile white male internet bloggers will receive a public colonoscopy with every screening in order to keep health costs down.
copilot yells Allah Akbar and plunges the plane,crew and passengers into the Atlantic Ocean off of Nantucket.
no thank you, but the crew gets no free pass, especially if they are muzzies.