Airport Security: Scanners, pat downs, employee low level screening

[Ryan Stewart]

They do same sex for that, so it would be some chick fondling your wife.

Which still wouldnt be hot because the TSA females are usually mannish or some inner city broad with 9 children (and a 10th on the way).

[u3b3rg33k]

They do same sex for that, so it would be some chick fondling your wife.

What if you're gay? Can you request a male/female? Will popping a huge boner get you arrested? I know it's technically illegal in some states to be apparently aroused.

[z31maniac]

Except you need a license to drive, not to be a passenger. You need a pilot's license to fly planes.

I can see my point went right over your head.

[Stephen]

Which still wouldnt be hot because the TSA females are usually mannish or some inner city broad with 9 children (and a 10th on the way).

Solution. All pat downs done by hot females.


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[u3b3rg33k]

I can see my point went right over your head.

Not really. In some places they run checkpoints, but again, they're checking for drunk drivers, not drunk passengers. If you have half a brain and you see a checkpoint and don't want to go through it, you take the long way around. If you're too drunk to figure that out, you deserve to get caught.

Solution. All pat downs done by hot females.


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But now you're discriminating against fat ugly bitches. That's unacceptable.

[z31maniac]

Not really. In some places they run checkpoints, but again, they're checking for drunk drivers, not drunk passengers. If you have half a brain and you see a checkpoint and don't want to go through it, you take the long way around. If you're too drunk to figure that out, you deserve to get caught.

Yep, you missed it.

I'll go ahead and spell it out for you.

Profiling works.

[u3b3rg33k]

Your example is bad. Pulling vehicles over that are behaving erratically is profiling; or perhaps sitting in the parking lot at the bar/restaurant and pulling people over as they leave. random stops is not. That's just being random. Getting El-al on sweaty folks making furtive glances at security personnel is profiling. Randomly checking people is not.

[z31maniac]

That's exactly my point, what they are doing now is random, when THEY SHOULD BE profiling.

We should really take a page from the Israeli's on this one.

[u3b3rg33k]

Here's another example of the sham that is current airport security. I was in Europe this year, and on the return trip, I was selected for "special screening." I was informed both verbally at the ticket counter, and with a lovely "SS" sharpied on my ticket.

Here's the problem. They told me. They told me at the ticket counter. With my traveling companions. I had the opportunity (and ability) to leave the airport and come back later, re-arrange luggage in the lounge, switch suitcases, or do who knows what else. I had nothing to worry about (I'm not interested in dying on a plane, thanks but no thanks), but they shouldn't have told me until I was at the gate.

[ck_taft325is]

Someone remind me again why we go through all this.....

DHS audit says TSA, in spite of many billions of dollars spent, finds no more contraband now than in 2000. 102 million+ commercial flights since 9/11 and the only two actual threats were not detected by airport screeners, but by passengers. In the case of the so-called undi-bomber, calls by the father stating his son was a threat and planned to blow up a plane went unheeded.

So, why do we have to go through this?

The weapons used by the perpetrators of 9/11 were planted on the plane beforehand, but secure area passcodes were not changed after 9/11? No further screening for secure area employees, but we grope nuns and children? Ridiculous.

Wanna be safe on a plane? Be aware of your surroundings. Observe others, and do not hesitate to act if convinced something is about to happen.

That sure as hell doesn't cost billions of dollars.

For this, I owe you a beer. Totally agree, my friend.

[mar1t1me]

For this, I owe you a beer. Totally agree, my friend.

Hey thanks! If I'm up that way, I might just collect!

And the bullshit continues.......

We have this article, where the TSA says:

Passengers have also expressed concerns that the images from the scanners can be saved or transmitted to other devices.
The TSA also calls this a myth, saying that the scanning machines do not have the capability to save or transmit images,

I don't believe that for a second. If they can't save data, then there's no accountability for a terrorist getting something past the machine. "We don't know how he did it-we don't save scans." Riiiiiight.

The part that pisses me off the most is this:

Former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff is the founder of the Chertoff Group, a security consulting firm whose clients include manufacturers of full-body scanners.

“Mr. Chertoff should not be allowed to abuse the trust the public has placed in him as a former public servant to privately gain from the sale of full-body scanners,’’ opined Kate Hanni, founder of FlyersRights.org, which opposes use of the scanners.

Chertoff’s group represents Rapiscan, a California based firm “which until recently was the only company qualified to sell full-body scan machines to the TSA.” Last summer, “TSA purchased 150 machines from Rapiscan with $25 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds.”

That seems a little odd-the gov't spending stimulus money on it's own security apparatus......

[z31maniac]

^That's a blatant lie (The TSA saying the images aren't saved), Gawker got something like 35,000 saved images on a FOIA request.

[u3b3rg33k]

[Dozyproductions]

jesus the man is so right.

[u3b3rg33k]

If only he wasn't in the house...