Air Travelers Brace for More Complicated Airport Procedures

AP | Sunday, December 29, 2002

[Sparta]

Here's a solution TSA, PROFILE MUSLIMS!!!!!

[B.O. Plenty]

Attention all airlines:......Start giving more money to the politicians.....you haven't been doing your "fair share"...notice the treatment lawyers get and compare it with your treatment.....get it?...money talks and bullsh!t walks....look at what happened to Microsoft for not contributing, for crying out loud.....If you would only contribute to the cause...maybe the TSA would be relieved of punishment duty and solve the airline terrorism problem by startiing to

PROFILE MIDDLE EASTERN PEOPLE....especially Middle Eastern men.....

[Falcon4.0]

This is what you "WHITE GUYS" get and justly deserve, for oppressing the rest of the World and forcing them to HiJack Airplanes and fly them into buildings. If it wasn't for you, the rest of the world would live in peace and harmony.

Sarcasm /OFF!

[Release]

I have just finished traveling by air over the holiday and it was the most humuliating experience in my life. I have never seen the inside of a police station in my life yet I when I walked through a metal detector I set of the alarm I was frisked and and nothing was found. According to the guard it was the buckles on my shoe which set it off. I got to the plane and not one of the four planes I flew on had metal doors on the cockpit. Lets start with the basics in life. For the cost of the 50,000+ people they have hired the planes could have been redesigned to eliminate what happen on 9/11. Instead the government built a system to let the criminals win and mess over the ordinary citizen.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Air Travelers Brace for More Complicated Airport Procedures

I am not bracing for anything. The next time I plan on flying is when Hell freezes over.

[maxwell]

travelers with only carry-on bags no longer can go straight to the gate. They'll have to make a detour to the ticket counter or a kiosk to get a boarding pass.

I ALREADY go get a boarding pass. I have ALWAYS gone to get a boarding pass. What's the big deal?

I am hitting the airways on Friday and I don't anticipate anything different from usual. I fly enough that I quickly learned the most efficient method to get through security-- strip down to yer tighty whities and send EVERYTHING, including boots, watch and old Marlboro miles, through the conveyer. Well not quite everything, bwahaha, but I have impressed some of them guards with my apparel-removing dexterity... (Hmmmm...)

[alpowolf]

"I fully support and like to work in a safe and secure environment," said Jack Koller, a 29-year-old government worker from Washington who waited 15 minutes for a screener to search his baggage at Reagan National. "I'll make the necessary sacrifices to make it happen."

You mean like learning to carry and shoot a gun? No, of course not. When will people learn? No "sacrifice" you can make will take the risk out of life, but your best bet is to learn to take care of yourself, not relying on government to do it for you.

The only thing our new so-called "security" has accomplished is to create thousands of new govt jobs.

[Theo]

Lighten up, my friend. We live in a new world. I've flown to Paris, London, Arizona and other places in the past year, and being frisked and questioned just gives me convidence that they're looking closely.

I also live near an air force base, and while some people get upset at the sound of jets taking off, I consider it the sound of freedom. Do you see the connection between "inconvenience" and freedom/security? Do you see any alternatives to close monitoring?

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

Do you see any alternatives to close monitoring?

Simple, we just don't have the courage to do it:

(1) No Middle Eastern men are allowed to fly or work in or around airports.
(2) Do to Middle Eastern men what we did to the Japanese during WWII. Relocation camps.

If necessary, extend the above to all Islamic men. I guarantee that what I suggest above will only seem extreme until ten thousand Americans die in a horrible attack.

[Theo]

I agree about profiling Middle Eastern men (who form the majority of those who practice radical islam). But Islamists are recruiting non-Middle-Easterners, including black prison inmates and other ethnic minorities. I would include Middle Easterners among those to be profiled, but expand it to include any ethnicity practicing Islam.

[coloradan]

Air Force jets may indeed be the sound of freedom, but intrusive searches and other policies at airports which violate the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments are not merely "inconveniece" as you say but rather the wholesale destruction of liberties our soldiers in the Air Force are (were) trying to preserve.

[PatrioticAmerican]

Yet, illegals work at our airports by the hundreds or thouands. They have instant access to all aircraft. You, a United states citizen, will go through "security" procedures while that illegal from south of the border may very well have been paid by an enemy of the US to plant a nice bomb. Have a nice flight.

[PatrioticAmerican]

" being frisked and questioned just gives me convidence that they're looking closely."

You are easily fooled.

[PatrioticAmerican]

"Air Force jets may indeed be the sound of freedom"

Actually, those planes, today, are the security measures we actually have in place. See, if a plane is highjacked, those planes are to shoot it down with us in it. The old Soviet Union would be proud.

[AlaskaErik]

I'm not bracing for anything. I simply refuse to fly commercially. No fuss, no muss, no headaches, no Nazi storm troopers bothering me.

[2banana]

I remember when I lived on Ft Benning. When there was shooting on the range (near a hundred automatic weapons firing at one time) it sounded a lot like thunder.

My kids used to ask, "Dad is that thunder or shooting?"

I would reply, "That is shooting on the nearby range"

My kids would go "Great!" - They were happy because they could go outside and it would not be raining. I, of course, was happy because that was the sound of freedom.

[alpowolf]

We live in a new world

Nothing personal but I kinda wish people would stop saying that. The world has always been dangerous; the only thing that has changed is that some people no longer live in their "safe" fantasy world.

Our freedoms are not a mere luxury, to be tossed aside at every alarm. The toughest times are precisely when our freedoms are the most important.

[trebb]

I only fly when I have to these days - it's a lot more relaxing to drive if you can get there in less than two days. Atlanta, GA is 7-1/2 hours from me (Biloxi, MS) and it takes the same amount of time for me to drive the 45 minutes to the Gulfport airport, go through a relatively easy (only 4 gates at the airport) checking procedure, and fly to Atlanta, get my bags and pick up a rental car. At least in a car, I can listen to tunes and eat/drink what I want, when I want and time the trip so I arrive when I plan on arriving instead of worrying about some of the huge delays that will probably always plague the air travelers.

[Capt_Hank]

I agree with you 100%. I was on vacation last week and was sitting across from the gate flying to Washington, DC. I was told that once you were in that seating area, you couldn't leave (WTF). I then watched as the passengers boarded the plane..... the TSA guards pulled an old black woman out of the line and searched her bags, had her remove her shoes and did the wand search. The next was a white guy, about 40 in a blue business suit. "Let's see..... if I don't want to find a problem and satistfy my quota, I want to choose them." Mean while, a male 18-40 of Middle Eastern decent, boards the plane without any hassle. Instead of government zeroing in on the problem, they create another problem.

All you guys flying out of Atlanta should feel save. The ex-Police Chief from Philadelphia and LA is in charge of the operation there. This is the same person that couldn't pass the Civil Service Exam while in LA. The City Council had to pass a special revision to allow him to carry a firearm. I sent the TSA an email asking if Williams was finally able to pass the test or was a waiver granted. I didn't really expect a reply.

I can see the hand writing on the wall.... Nationalized Airlines. They can then do as they choose.