TSA pat-downs.

[Ah Pook]

Comes out Tuesday. What Timing.

[ERNO]

Profiling may work in Israel, but it will be impossible to work in such places as La Guardia airport in New York.

[TFOGGER]

Profiling may work in Israel, but it will be impossible to work in such places as La Guardia airport in New York.

If you read the whole article, they are not profiling based on ethnicity, they are looking at behaviours and micro expressions that even the most accomplished of liars cannot control. Their security is multilayered and many of those layers are transparent to the traveller. Their record of safety is unquestioned, and the level of inconvenience is extremely low(unless you're a terrorist). I can't be certain, but I have read somewhere that the number of people they employ for security is roughly half, per passenger, of what the TSA uses. The difference is that they are extensively trained, and are using techniques that are effective. Think about this: They have had exactly ONE security breach in the last 5 years, at an airport that has roughly 80 percent of the traffic that DIA has, smack dab in the middle of the Arab world.

[Bitter Clinger]

Exactly, Israel aint playing around. They just get shit done

[patrick0685]

give everyone a knife and someone will take down the f*cker before he can do anything

[clublights]

give everyone a knife and someone will take down the f*cker before he can do anything

Naw give em all guns...........

then who is gunna hijack an airplane?? even if they got 10 guys on one plane.. they would still have 200 guns pointed back at them ........

[patrick0685]

Naw give em all guns...........

then who is gunna hijack an airplane?? even if they got 10 guys on one plane.. they would still have 200 guns pointed back at them ........

i was going to originally say that, but some ass clown would shoot out a window and test the pilots skills, but anyway arm them all and they will resort back to there chicken shit way of mailing bombs

[Limited GM]

I just read the below else where. Interesting about the luggage aspect...

I worked as an airport police officer just after 9/11. At that time civilian screeners were used to man the checkpoints. When TSA swooped in, roving bands of 10-12 of them wandered the concourses randomly screening people who had already pa...ssed through the checkpoint and were waiting to board their flight. In a short period of time, TSA spent BIG bucks on printers on the top of baggage x-ray machines which they did not use to the tune of $80,000 apiece and 1000's of bucks for radio earpieces which were used for about 2 wks. and then discarded because they were uncomfortable for the users. Many of the screeners had never seen what a disassembled pistol looked like on an x-ray machine during training. I took mine apart and sent it though the x-ray in a bag and more than half of them could'nt identify all of the parts. Other than a re-arrangement of the equipment at the checkpoint, I really could see no difference between the civilian and TSA screeners. If anything, one was safer flying when checked by the civilians because they knew what they were doing. It is all smoke and mirrors, folks and I saw TSA grow into the monstrosity it has become. Personally, I will never fly again. How can you be truly safe when they don't check the cargo going into the belly of the plane? Kind of stupid if you ask me.

[Irving]

So, am I the only one totally okay with people not having guns on airplanes?

[Bailey Guns]

So, am I the only one totally okay with people not having guns on airplanes?

Yes. The only one.

OK...there might be one other person.