are passed through wholesale along with the illegal
alien workers at the airports.
So what could the purpose actually be?
Posted on 12/28/2010 5:58:56 AM PST by FredJake
On Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the intrusive pat-downs and virtual strip searches via whole body scanners would continue at the nation's airports.
Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union", Napolitano said the pat-down technique would not change in "the forseeable future."
Claiming that security is "better than it was one year ago, particularly in the aviation environment", she said:
We're always looking to improve systems and so forth. But the new technology, the pat downs, is just objectively safer for our traveling public."
She told CNN the pat-downs are only part of a system that includes intelligence and information gathered about passengers prior to travel.
"There's a whole kind of intel-based system that's going on and then we get to the actual gate," Napolitano said, claiming overall improvement of airport security one year after the attempted "Christmas bombing" of 2009.
Politico reports that Napolitano claimed the efforts may have deterred some would-be terrorists. "What we know is that you can't measure the devices that we are deterring from going on a plane," she said.
Meanwhile, as American citizens are having their "junk" inspected at airports, some Mexican citizens may be able to bypass the procedure. Fox News reported on Dec 20 that:
Mexican citizens will soon be eligible to apply for a "trusted traveler" status that will allow them to bypass some elements of airport security when they fly into the United States — a U.S. government-approved program that critics say could be exploited by violent drug cartels.
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Issa needs to start by investigating that Nappy head of the ‘ho’ of Homeland Security.
As Patriot Pilot pointed out, None of the 100,000 plus workers at these large airports gets searched. That is why there is such a high rate of thefts from passengers.
Meanwhile, the borders are wide open.
Theodore Roosevelt said that nothing in politics happens by accident.
The purpose of these illogical security techniques (no profiling?)is to prepare/test the USA population for future “security checks” for EVERYTHING and ANYTHING the “government” wants to eliminate.
Either airline traffic will soon drop dramatically from protest, or the American population has lost all it's fight. They are testing you.
I for one will not fly with my family. There is not a person, man or woman, that I would allow to body feel my wife and children. Any man that would allow that, is not a man, or else his "wife" is not a real wife in his mind.
“Claiming that security is “better than it was one year ago, particularly in the aviation environment””
Her choice of words may mean that more “security” in non-aviation environments is coming. There may be similar TSA pat downs on interstates when you cross state lines. Public transit systems could be next since that would only be a logical security enhancement.
This is about customs checks, not the regular airport security, and it’s for frequent travelers that have undergone a background check. Members of the program get expedited through customs since they are already known to not be undesirable and a low risk for smuggling. We’ve had programs like this with various countries for a long time. This is a bunch of hype and scare tactics.
My wife and I and a contingent of neighbors are bypassing our usual flight together this year to drive 20 hours each way to our yearly Front Sight course outside Las Vegas.
Given:
1. the taxi to the hotel where we wait for
2. the shuttle to
3. the airport to
4. the check-in line and
5. the weapons check-in and
6. the TSA security line and all its pleasures and
7. the pleasures of the gate waiting area and
8. the slow cattle march onto the plane and
9. the stowing/fighting for overhead stiorage and
10. the squeeze into sardine-like accomodations and
11. the nervous look-around for the nearby
12. fatties, feral kids, coughing/sneezing death-bedders, loud-mouthed bores, the unwashed, and the scattered young Muslim men and their trips to the bathroom, and
13. the lack of air conditioning during the tarmck wait, and
14. the shrill in-flight burlesque of the flight attendants and
15. the pitiful food substitutes and liquid rations and
16. the bladder control efforts and
17. the bare-knuckled landing terror and
18. the endless deplane cattle march and
19. the far-too-long or far-too-short flight-change drama and
20. the replay of 8 thru 18 and
21. the endless tension of the baggage and weapon retrievals and
22. the joys of the shuttle to the rental car shack and
23. the rental car procedural challenge -
Given all that sort of Purgatory or Hell - compared to the Heaven of driving with a group of friends through the Western deserts for about the same price or less - I can’t imagine ever getting on a plane again. They’ve lost my business, and Big Sis and her minions can kiss my a$$ - not grope it.
Don't forget that hotels and malls have already been mentioned.
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