Posted on 11/15/2010 5:38:36 PM PST by pissant
The Transportation Security Administration's demeaning new "enhanced pat-down" procedures are a direct result of the Obama administration's willful blindness to the threat from Islamic radicals. While better tools are available to keep air travelers safe, they would involve recognizing the threat for what it is, which is something the White House will never do.
El Al, Israel's national airline, employs a smarter approach. Any airline representing the state of Israel is a natural - some might say preeminent - target for terrorist attacks. Yet El Al has one of the best security records in the world and doesn't resort to wide-scale use of methods that would under other circumstances constitute sexual assault. The Israelis have achieved this track record of safety by employing sophisticated intelligence analysis which allows them to predict which travelers constitute a possible threat and which do not. Resources are then focused on the more probable threats with minimal intrusion on those who are likely not to be terrorists.
Here in the United States, these sophisticated techniques have roundly been denounced as discriminatory "profiling." Allegedly postracial America has been unable to come to grips with the difference between immoral and illegal racial discrimination and the prudent use of the types of techniques that police on the beat use every day, which is similar to practices the customs service applies to assessing which packages being sent into the country are licit and which were sent by smugglers. TSA believes an 80-year-old grandmother deserves the same level of scrutiny at an airport terminal checkpoint as a 19-year-old male exchange student from Yemen. This policy not only is a waste of time and resources, it denies reality.
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Rumor is that women in burkas are exempt from pat downs for religious reasons. As Drudge stated: The Terrorists have Won.
And this is STILL in place, even now? Yeesh...
Maybe I’ll start traveling in a kilt. There is no way a pat down will feel anything through all that wool. /s
Eeeyuuuu. How to turn an airport into a Chicago bathhouse.
You know how those sneaky Christians like to pack there undies with explosives....
Or was that Boloney?
We have a new congress coming in soon. We need to really push on them to drop this PC sickness & start implementing security procedures that make sense.
We have to remember that to the Left, Islam cannot be recognized as an enemy.
If they do so, they believe they give tacit support to the fact that Judeo-Christianity is NOT the enemy. But, to the Left, that IS the REAL enemy - so they go on with this charade.
It really is that simple.
"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter."
Isaiah 5:20
I’m a woman and I was one of the first recipients of this little patdown.
I am an older disabled person with lots of metal in me from accidents, so they told me I needed the search. The thing is, I hadn’t heard of this or expected it.
I’ve had hand searches before but when she started feeling under my breasts and between my legs, and I’m standing out in public, well, I was upset. Especially since it is difficult for me to stand and she was knocking me off balance. It was not fun and it was time consuming.
YOU can clearly see his genitals!
And completely uncalled for and unconstitutional.
Marxist Democrats and Muslims have America where they want them. Cowering under statist storm troopers.
Re: Airline Travelling Muslims: Avoid Full Body Scanning by Taking These STEPS!!! aslaamualaicum there is a way to dodge body scanners in britain aswell possibly if we here at IA research it a bit then we can let everyone know inshallah. Heard a woman did this. (Not writing on keyboard so sorry for shortcuts).
She checked in her luggage (early) ,then waited till the end (probably just few miniutes before gates close) and then went through.
They asked her to go in scanner and she declined, but they could not send her out because of some law were they cant allow a persons luggage to fly without them the other option was to delay the flight considerably (especially if you put it in early) so they let her on.
This is what i heard need to double check has any body else heard about this?
Jihad Jane - how does Al Qaeda recruit US born women?
Blond and green-eyed, Ms. LaRose looks more like a former cheerleader than the Western conception of an Islamist extremist. According to the FBI, she told co-conspirators in an e-mail that her appearance would allow her to blend in “with many people,” so that she could achieve “what is in my heart.”
as a disabled vet whom is confined to a wheelchair, when making a reservation to fly from Austin Straubel to Dallas/Ft. worth I was informed that I would have to have an attendant accompany me on the palne. I would also asked to move from the chair and lay on the floor and be subjected to body pat. Because I have metal plates and titanium screws throughout places in my body i may have to be subjected to removal of clothing. The no longer accept the photos of the plates, and screws. This is demeaning towards me as a person. The attendant would have to redress me after the search. This is nuts, when a Muslim is exempt from the same search Screw this country’s response to Terrorism, whom is the terrorist the American Taxpayer is now viewed as a criminal and the muzzie terrorist gets a free pass. This will change when the Muzzie boards a plane and blows the plane up over detroit, stirring thelargest Muzzie population to rise up and cause destruction and mayhem from detroit to Chicago and within 400 miles radiating out from detroit Americas heartland and the heartland of Canada (tornoto). The pissant and napilanio are creating this problem in the uSA, they are opening up America to another attack because of their political correctness towards Muzzies. Sharia law is Pigshit. If a Muzzie woman is in front of you pull off her burqua, there is no need for her to have it on in the USA, we are not a muslim nation and they have no exemptions because of their religious practices. screw their laws, do they recognize the rights of Christians in their own countries the answer in a big Hell No.
I don't believe the current staffing of the TSA is capable of anything smart.
How can we be sure that's not explosives? Drop your pants cowboy. I have to do a groin inspection for the safety of the passengers. It's tragic how we have become a bunch of jackasses that go along with this.
Obama ordered the body scanners. Chertoff represents Rapiscan, the body scan manufacturer, and Soros owns a large number of Rapiscan shares. It’s all a scam hiding behind “security.”
Of course it is. Just follow the money. But they are also doing it for psychological reasons....to cow the population and de-masculate the men in front of their children and wives (except respect mooslems). Conditioning for the Marxist hellhole.
Yeah, Clinton put everyone’s focus on boobies and pink ribbons. Now it’s whole body groping. What’s left for the next Democrat pres.?
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