Posted on 02/27/2017 7:52:23 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain
For some 15 years, airport security has become steadily more invasive. There are ever more checkpoints, ever more requests for documents as you make your way from the airport entrance to the airplane. Passengers adapt to the new changes as they come. But my latest flight to Mexico, originating in Atlanta, presented all passengers with something I had never seen before.
We had already been through boarding pass checks, passport checks, scanners, and pat downs. At the gate, each passenger had already had their tickets scanned and we were all walking on the jet bridge to board. It’s at this point that most people assume that it is all done: finally we can enjoy some sense of normalcy.
This time was different. Halfway down the jetbridge, there was a new layer of security. Two US Marshals, heavily armed and dressed in dystopian-style black regalia, stood next to an upright machine with a glowing green eye. Every passenger, one by one, was told to step on a mat and look into the green scanner. It was scanning our eyes and matching that scan with the passport, which was also scanned (yet again). Like everyone else, I complied. What was my choice? I guess I could have turned back at the point, decline to take the flight I had paid for, but it would be unclear what would then happen. After standing there for perhaps 8 seconds, the machine gave the go signal and I boarded.
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Don’t be ridiculous.
It won’t and it isn’t.
This was an international flight not a domestic flight.
Right symptom, wrong solution. We shouldn’t have to give evidence against ourselves to get perfectly legal over the counter drugs. It’s supposed to be a FREE society, that means bad guys get away, because we’re not all assumed to be criminals every time we step out of the house.
You will be glad when you have to take the mark of the beast to buy bread too. You are a totalitarian state dream drone. Think!
Still seems like a collection of personal information without a warrant... Why out bound and not inbound instead where at least you could argue you were screening people coming into the country?
How do you know if security works? If it stops passport fraud completely on international flights then it will appear to be unnecessary. Same with vaccines. They seem to eradicate a disease and everyone gets complacent. Then your kid gets polio from a passport fraud illegal and dies...
“This was an international flight from the USA to Mexico”
So you are willing to go through a retinal scan to keep illegals or terrorists from leaving the country. :-)
I’ve only flown internationally 6 times. I think 6 x 8 seconds = 48 seconds is not asking to much over a lifetime.
Anything that can be recorded can be forged. If they can replace the photo they can replace the biometrics.
I don’t really care how we catch terrorists and criminals on a plane leaving or coming. Matters not.
In your scenario we’d know because people would be arrested. Of course they won’t be. Because the reality is anything that can be recorded can be forged. It’s not going to stop passport fraud, it’s just going to mean people modifying passports need to have another tool in their arsenal, a fairly cheap, find it on Amazon tool.
It’s not the time, it’s the treating everyone like criminals in a society that says it’s free.
You did catch the part of the article where this was cross border travel right. The scan in question was on a flight bound for Mexico.
No it wasn’t. But we do have a big database of those from Iraq and Afg who our military came in contact with during the last couple of decades. I think it was correlating against that database. I knew a guy years ago was fingerprinting in Iraq and this Iraqi came in to have get his prints taken. He was wearing gloves with the finger covering removed. As they had him put his hand down one of his fingers fell off! All of his fingers had belonged to someone else at one time.
You took the blue pill. We get it. Welcome to the Matrix. :-)
Ok, then don’t get on the plane. You are free to make that choice.
If they can replace the photo they can replace the biometrics.
If your biometrics match your ID but do not match the data base wouldn’t you get detained until they can figure out why that is?
I thin I can distinguish between the activity of buying bread from ID’ing my self on an international flight.
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