TSA pat-downs.

[TriggerHappy]

[KevDen2005]

I am just going to say it, if you dont like it, take a f*cking train.

Thanks, I feel better now.

Did someone get the "bad touch?"

[KevDen2005]

I was just kidding with you anyway.

I don't really care one way or the other. My thought is that it really accomplishes nothing. If they have to do the pat downs than why do they buy all that really expensive equipment?

I am sure they will find a happy median in the future. Lots of growing pains....

[2ndChildhood]

I think the procedures are necessary, but really only protect us against the low to medium-skilled threats. Professional-grade attacks will get through when they choose. I think the rarity of successful attacks shows how small a number of true professionals we are up against.

The two recent package-bombs out of Yemen, those were pro-grade and we only caught them because of a leak. I doubt if very many of our in-place scanning procedures would have caught them. Frankly, if they have to mail their attacks out of Yemen, it shows just how few quality assets they have here in the West. If a similar set of package bombs had been mailed out of bumfsck Iowa I bet they would have made it past tons of scanners.

We are getting all worked up about a threat that's mainly pretty distant. The local sympathizers are a bunch of wanna-be's with limited real skills or training.

[Anton]

I think its a great idea. In fact, I think we should all have to get cavity searches whenever we choose to fly. After all, flying isn't a right, so we give up whatever rights and self-respect we have as soon as we purchase a ticket. There have already been instances of suicide attacks using 'internal' bombs so we need to do it for our own good. You want to be safe right? Then bend over. You don't like it? Quit your whinging citizen!

Its fucking pathetic what has happened to America and mankind in general.

[DOC]

I love it. I pick the line with 300 lb black chick with man hands to feel me up. When I was working there and wanted to have breakfast in the smoking rooms I would demand it just work up an appetite.
I don't know if its true but I heard that while the TSA can mangle and molest anyone that comes into their little world Muslim women wearing that head cover thing are not required to be scanned and during the pat down the TSA can only check the head and neck area. The only 2 places that bombs can't be hidden are the only places that can be searched.
WTF are they thinking?

[rockhound]

they are not thinking,

security through political correctness, unless you are a us citizen.

the simple solution is in front of them, but they seem reluctant to use it, didn't they have the scanners set up with the avatar images instead of actual images? what happened to that option?

[Bailey Guns]

More feel-good bullshit brought to you by the TSA. The only thing TSA is capable of doing is reacting after an incident. Apparently no one in that organization possesses the ability or the will to do the things that will keep us safe.

This nonsense about checking every passenger in this manner is ridiculous. I don't recall the last time an 86 year old used his Medal of Honor to attack someone on a plane yet Joe Foss was harassed by TSA for 45 minutes prior to boarding in Phoenix. Little old ladies with knitting needles aren't the types that worry me getting on airplanes.

I was in Reno and watched TSA scumbags insist on removing a prosthetic leg from a 3 year old girl without the parents assistance. They weren't allowed near the girl because of "security reasons". The poor kid was terrified. Mom wanted to give the little girl her blanket while she was subjected to this and a TSA agent threatened to have her arrested if she approached the child. If you've flown in the last 9 years you've seen the idiocy and the abuses first hand.

I've seen people in US Military uniforms subjected to "additional random screening"...usually female.

TSA...the US government...American society in general...needs to buy a freakin' clue. These aren't the people who are trying to kill us.

How about we tell CAIR and other pro-Muslim organizations (like the white house) to go fuck themselves and start profiling passengers who look middle-eastern and have Muslim names? Subject them to "additional" and "enhanced" screening once in a while. And leave the majority of the traveling American public to go about their business in peace.

I would rather not have TSA even in existence...especially with the way they conduct business by bullying and harassing innocent people...than what they're doing now in the name of security. What a fucking joke they are.

I don't need the government violating my privacy or my family's privacy in the name of security...regardless of whether or not flying on an airplane is a right or a privilege.

Its fucking pathetic what has happened to America and mankind in general.

Thank you.

[Epyon]

Screw this, I'm gonna travel by wagon from now on!!! Actually about the only thing that pisses me off about TSA is that some airports have X-ray scanner. Do I REALLY want uncollimated radiation blasting away at my boys? No thanks, at least when doing a medical x-ray the tube housing reduces radiation dose to the part being x-rayed. I think if ever put in a situation where they want me to go through an x-ray scanner I'll just sing and whoop wildly, strip down to my underwear and walk through the metal detectors. Of course then they'll probably arrest me for disturbing the peace and indecent exposure!!

[carnplanenut]

As a twice furloughed airline pilot, I believe that we have rights in this country that are constantly under attack. Security and freedom are polar opposites when being provided by a government. You can't have both.

We have the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." No where in that statement does security come to play. We as American's have a responsibility to provide our own security, and were give the right to keep and bear arms to do so.

Flying may be a privelige, but so is driving a car. That never seems to stop the DMV from issuing a license to the seniors who can't see. Flying is a privelige that is paid for using a free market model. It is also the most regulated deregulated industry there is.

This is the same slippery slope that gun control proponents use to get more gun control. If we only get rid of passengers, aviation would be safe?

The TSA is going to deal with the public on this one, and I say good!

Jason