“But it sure seems like we are going to allow underwear bombers on to the airplanes”
Every single one of those guys had been brought to the attention of the FBI before their incident. Perhaps we should start looking at muslims from Yemen a little more carefully before strip searching grandpa from Iowa.
“Perhaps we should start looking at muslims from Yemen a little more carefully before strip searching grandpa from Iowa.”
And that’s the reason we’re in this situation. We abandoned any careful examination of immigrants. Almost all of us know that our grandparents or great-grandparents spent their time on Ellis Island. Checked for disease and so forth. What happened to that? Why did Oprez just sign an paper allowing 70,00 (or 80,000) muslims to enter this country for “humanitarian” reasons. Are they Christians? What about the white South Africans, are they getting let in for “humantarian” reasons?
That said. Why not combo of some questioning a al Israeli systems and chemical sniffing dogs? If the dog gets a hit you go to the scanner, pat down or out of the airport.
We got lots of dogs in USA. They’re cheaper than TSA agents (no pensions — well actually they ought to get pension (I always read Sat Night Doggie stuff) — but anyway cheaper.