Happy Travels
via the New Yorker:
By Ed Fisher, September 2, 1972.
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By Peter Steiner, December 3, 2001.
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By Robert Leighton, January 10, 2005.
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Oh, and one other thing: Your emergency number:
TSA Public Affairs
(571) 227-2829
If you get stopped by security, and they are acting inappropriately — call the number
http://www.tsa.gov/contact/index.shtm
Members of the traveling public who believe that they have been unlawfully discriminated against by a TSA employee may contact the External Compliance Division in the Office of Civil Rights to have their concerns addressed, by sending an E-mail to TSA.OCR -ExternalCompliance@dhs.gov or by calling the Office of Civil Rights.
The Office of Civil Rights can be reached toll free at 1-877-EEO-4-TSA (1-877-336-4872) or (800) 877-8339 (TTY), or by E-mail at TSA-ContactCenter@dhs.gov
contact the Ombudsman, phone 1-571-227-2383 or 1-877-266-2837 toll-free.
E-mail: TSA.Ombudsman@dhs.gov
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November 23rd, 2010 at 6:06 pm
BR,
you’re, actually, shilling for these goons?
I guess you weren’t kidding about the knee-pads and lipgloss…
see http://search.yippy.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&v%3Aproject=clusty&query=percentage+of+Air+Cargo+screened
hint: that # isn’t 100 ..
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BR: No you missed the point of the phone number
Read this
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/flyingwithfish/2010/11/17/so%E2%80%A6i-got-detained-by-the-tsa-at-the-airport-today/
November 23rd, 2010 at 6:25 pm
Members of the traveling public who believe that they have been unlawfully discriminated against by a TSA employee may contact the External Compliance Division in the Office of Civil Rights”
what? for groping your “johnson” or because you were pulled out for “special screening” because you’re dressed like Ayman Al-Zawahiri?
November 23rd, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Are Air Travelers Criminal Suspects?
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 – by Dr. Ron Paul
The growing revolt against invasive TSA practices is encouraging to Americans who are fed up with federal government encroachment in their lives. In the case of air travelers, this encroachment is quite literally physical. But a deep-seated libertarian impulse still exists within the American people, and opposition to the new TSA full body scanner and groping searches is gathering momentum.
I introduced legislation last week that is based on a very simple principle: federal agents should be subject to the same laws as ordinary citizens. If you would face criminal prosecution or a lawsuit for groping someone, exposing them to unwelcome radiation, causing them emotional distress, or violating indecency laws, then TSA agents should similarly face sanctions for their actions.
This principle goes beyond TSA agents, however. As commentator Lew Rockwell recently noted, the bill “enshrines the key lesson of the freedom philosophy: the government is not above the moral law. If it is wrong for you and me, it is wrong for people in government suits. … That is true of TSA crimes too.” The revolt against TSA also serves as a refreshing reminder that we should not give in to government alarmism or be afraid to question government policies.
Certainly, those who choose to refuse the humiliating and potentially harmful new full body scanner machines may suffer delays, inconveniences, or worse. But I still believe peaceful resistance is the most effective tool against federal encroachment on our constitutional rights, which leads me to be supportive of any kind of “opt-out” or similar popular movements.
After all, what price can we place on our dignity, personal privacy, and physical integrity? We have a right not to be treated like criminals and searched by federal agents without some reasonable evidence of criminal activity. Are we now to accept that merely wishing to travel and board an aircraft give rise to reasonable suspicion of criminality?
Also, let’s not forget that TSA was created in the aftermath of 9/11, when far too many Americans were clamoring for government protection from the specter of terrorism. Indeed it was congressional Republicans, the majority party in 2001, who must bear much of the blame for creating the Department of Homeland Security and TSA in the first place. Congressional Republicans also overwhelmingly supported the Patriot Act, which added to the atmosphere of hostility toward civil liberties in the name of state-provided “security.”
But as we’ve seen with TSA, federal “security” has more to do with humiliation and control than making us safe. It has more to do with instilling a mindset of subservience, which is why laughable policies such as removing one’s shoes continue to be enforced. What else could explain the shabby, degrading spectacle of a long line of normally upbeat Americans shuffling obediently through airport security in their stocking feet?
TSA may be merely symbolic of much bigger problems with the federal government, but it is an important symbol and we have a real chance to do something about it. We must seize this opportunity, before TSA offers some cosmetic compromise or the media spotlight fades. If you don’t live in my congressional district, please consider contacting your member of Congress and asking him or her to cosponsor HR 6416, the American Traveler Dignity Act of 2010. With enough help, we can push the bill to a vote early next year. Unless grassroots Americans take action, federal agencies like TSA will continue to bully us and ignore our basic constitutional freedoms.
http://www.thedailybell.com/1545/Ron…-Suspects.html
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BR: Polls are showing 70-80% of the sheeple favor the screening . . .
November 23rd, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Is it true you can reserve your inspector by age range and sex in advance, off the TSA website?
November 23rd, 2010 at 7:17 pm
@Space_Cowboy_NW Says:
“We must seize this opportunity, before TSA offers some cosmetic compromise or the media spotlight fades.”
Where were you when the government passed the “I can wiretap anyone without a warrant?
@BR:
“Polls are showing 70-80% of the sheeple favor the screening . . .”
I saw a TV commentator quoted that and waited for the guest to say something like: Since when do polls dictate what is or isn’t constitutional?
The reality of the country is that little by little it is becoming a police state regardless of who is in power…
November 23rd, 2010 at 7:19 pm
BR:
And how many people actually fly? I know there are 600 million trips taken a year but that doesn’t mean all 300 million people take 2 trips a year. After all, haven’t you taken a number if trips this year?
November 23rd, 2010 at 7:36 pm
After all, haven’t you taken a number if trips this year?
if you’re groped and fondled by a TSA agent it’s not cheating-
and of course anything goes once you’re across state lines (and the spouse is back home)-
the distance factor
November 23rd, 2010 at 7:42 pm
The TSA already know that the recent incident in Saudi involved a suicide bomber placing an explosive device where the sun don’t shine, which was detonated via a SIM card by a cell phone (Which, fortunately, probably means a permanent ban on all use of Cell phones on aircraft).
They also know that NEITHER the new machines NOR the aggressive pat-down routine would detect explosives so hidden. So we can expect very shortly an aviation incident, fatal or otherwise, using this technique. Thereafter, will we all be expected to bend over whilst a TSA Agent performs a digital rectal/vaginal examination (Or, in lay terms, a finger up the arse) to check for explosives?
“Sorry Madam, just following the rules. And we do wear clean surgical gloves!!!!?”
I am not aware of a SINGLE aviation security incident involving other than a non-Caucasian male in the age range 18-35. Nothing to see here, move on!! So in the name of political correctness we spread the limited security resources across Grannies, Nuns and toddlers, rather than focusing on the potential terrorists. Yes it is profiling. As very successfully employed by the Israelis to defend ElAl and by the Brits to defend BA against attacks from the IRA during the Northern Island troubles. If the TSA had any brains, they DON’T have to divulge the METHOD of their profiling (In the name of security you know!) if they don’t want to confront PC head-on.
November 23rd, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Walk through the friggin’ machine and save your outrage for something important. I’m old enough to have had my feet x-rayed as a kid because Mom was buying me a pair of shoes. The doses I got then were enormous compared to what we get now.
Suck it up and live dangerously.
November 23rd, 2010 at 7:45 pm
As it was explained to me there will be handing out Extenze samples to travelers after they go through the scanners. Rumor has it that the manufacturer has signed a revenue sharing deal with the TSA. I think it is a win-win regardless of your position on the privacy issue.
November 23rd, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Saturday Night Live TSA skit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZM4Bpt3xZU
November 23rd, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Given the current laws, what constitutes “unlawfully discriminated against”?
Incredibly prescient set of ‘toons. What was the basis for the one from 1972?
I can remember walking to the check-in counter, and onto the flight without ever going through a scanner, or being evaluated in any way other than being checked for a boarding pass. Seems like a million years ago.
November 23rd, 2010 at 7:51 pm
Barry,
I respectfully disagree with your comment “Polls are showing 70-80% of the sheeple favor the screening”. It would not be appropriate to have lynchings if “Polls are showing 70-80% of the sheeple favor” them. And I’m quite certain that if polls were taken in Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia about some of their policies that the results would likely be at least 99% in favor. Polls should never be used in matters of principles.
Ben Franklin reminded us that “The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.” We are on a slippery slope.
November 23rd, 2010 at 8:04 pm
constantnormal,
I would guess the basis for the one from 1972 is from the hijackings of airplanes to Cuba. I’ve always wondered if our responses to those first hijackings had been more forceful we would not have had as many problems with flight security over the years. But we’ll never know until we reach the Great Airline Terminal in the Sky.
November 23rd, 2010 at 8:10 pm
BR,
this link http://boardingarea.com/blogs/flyingwithfish/2010/11/17/so%E2%80%A6i-got-detained-by-the-tsa-at-the-airport-today/
doesn’t seem to be working..
also, as with others, “Polls” ? Really? …wow
November 23rd, 2010 at 8:12 pm
They also know that NEITHER the new machines NOR the aggressive pat-down routine would detect explosives so hidden.
exactly- they need to be more aggressive- pretty soon they’ll need someone like this to shove her finger up your ass-
In Your Dreams
I know BR dreams about it (well, maybe not)
November 23rd, 2010 at 9:25 pm
1 reused blue glove = 200 herpes cases
So who makes the blue gloves?
November 23rd, 2010 at 9:35 pm
@BR:
“Polls are showing 70-80% of the sheeple favor the screening . . .”
@Robespierre:
“The reality of the country is that little by little it is becoming a police state regardless of who is in power…”
Duly noted/Natural progression (er, descent?) from a historic perspective:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler’s_Willing_Executioners
Btw The TSA security ramp-up is the BEST thing that could have happened to the decimated business/private jet market. This stimuli (sorry for the choice of metaphor’s) will get those that contemplated ownership ‘off the fence’! Lots of markdowned ships to find new homes/operators….
November 23rd, 2010 at 9:37 pm
I love the warning of Pandora’s carry on.
Anyway, minimum wage people being overzealous at their shit job, reminds me of bank clerks.
November 23rd, 2010 at 9:54 pm
But this would be an opportunity for others, especially the wealthy.
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/invasive-new-tsa-policies-double-private-jet-travel-182024.php
November 23rd, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Ha! The irony of calling a phone number to report a case of abuse by the TSA!
Remember the old story about the guy who wanted to find out if the FBI had a file on him?
Caller: “I want to see if I have an FBI file”
FBI: “You do now.”
November 23rd, 2010 at 10:18 pm
the first two Comments, from BR’s link:
Reid
November 17th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
The very fact that you were approached as if you committed a federal offence, and that it took you know the ‘super special number’ to get out shows exactly the jack-booted approach the TSA is now taking, and why they must be put into their place.
GA
November 17th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
You’re kidding, right? Because you have someone on speed dial, your ordeal (and I will call it an ordeal) ended quickly but for anyone else in a similar situation without the contacts and phone #s you had, they could very well have to be bailed out of the local jail due to the current idiocy. I note that you continually reference tape you hope exists that would’ve exonerated you from the lies told by the TSOs — I wouldn’t hold my breath.
It’s the TSA office of strat comm that handled the issue not YOU. You reference that once told they were wrong, they apologized, backed off and went away. That’s great but there was no communication from you to them so where is this openness you think people should pursue? There was not discussion about how the TSOs actually misled the LEO about what you were doing and how. Glad you situation ended well for you and only took up 20 minutes of your time, but it just isn’t like that for regular people and the poorly educated/trained individuals currently running the funny farm
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no kidding.
November 23rd, 2010 at 10:39 pm
FLY NUDE THIS THANKSGIVING…
When we fly, it all hangs out!
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November 23rd, 2010 at 11:08 pm
@hammerandtong2001
How about:
http://improveverywhere.com/missions/the-no-pants-subway-ride/
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:32 pm
I don’t buy those poll numbers. If you polled men and told them that their testicles would either by photographed, fondled, or photographed prior to flying, I doubt that you would get 80% support (well maybe in San Francisco).
Also the fourth amendment states that searches by the federal government need probable cause. That you have searches going on that are not approved by a judge and are done at random is probably the most obvious and blatant disregard for the Constitution that I have seen in a while. There is already a suit pending on this matter and I suspect the judge will rule the TSA’s screening unconstitutional and be a hero to the masses.
I wonder what the numbers would be if a poll asked is it okay for the TSA to violate the 4th amendment?
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Sorry meant to say photographed, fondled, or both.
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Hahaha I love these cartoons!
http://www.phisltockworld.com
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:41 pm
You guy’s are missing the big picture.
Limbaugh says this is all about Obama attempting to destroy the airlines, by making people stop flying, so that he can take them over!
So, should we be shorting the airlines?
I’d short the Republican Party, but Wall Street and Saudi Arabia bailed them out in that last election.
November 24th, 2010 at 12:04 am
On another note Barry, I checked in the other day and found your quote of the day to be missing. It wasn’t terribly enlightening but I did find it to be quite profound
November 24th, 2010 at 12:18 am
Watch the youtubes on this page. Effing United States of Nazi-land.
http://unveilingtheeconomy.blogspot.com/
November 24th, 2010 at 12:34 am
Dav, I really love when you guys act as if the “Republican” Party, esp. under Bush 43, was some kind of role model of citizen rights.
You blind Republicans allowed Wall Street to Rape us, by deregulating Fraud, on Wall Street: Flash Crashes, Naked Shorts, Front running, and a Gutted SEC. Plus, you allowed the Healthcare/ Insurance industry to innovate: Pre-existing conditions, and a 3% yearly rate of Rescission[ simply canceling the policies of the sickest patients with coverage ]. And still today California is the only state to bring charges against Insurance Rescission Fraud.
Now you have the gall to blame Obama for your 8 years of incompetence?
And let me tell you, if Obama were a Nazi: Limbaugh, Murdoch, Koch and Beck would all be dead.
Yet, they still live.
November 24th, 2010 at 12:54 am
I’m getting tired of this Hypocrisy.
You all are harping about those pat-downs, the prosthetic leg searches, the breast implants, etc…
But you all will be the first and the loudest if a terrorist uses these very same techniques to blow up a plane.
November 24th, 2010 at 12:56 am
I’m tired of the Republican-Never-Ending-Bitch-Party.
November 24th, 2010 at 2:29 am
@constantnormal/John
I rather suspect it was the events in Munich in 1972 or perhaps the earlier campaign in 1970.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hijacked/filmmore/index.html
BTW, the first New Yorker cartoon in this series dates from 1938.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/11/before-the-junk-jokes-airport-security-cartoons.html
November 24th, 2010 at 2:30 am
Going back to the post on the economy, one should look at a broader measure like CFNAI-MA3. I still remember Barry’s post on this awhile back. This is a better indicator of overall economic activity. Not much improvement after recovering from the 2009 chasm.
The index’s three-month moving average, CFNAI-MA3, decreased to –0.46 in October from –0.33 in September, reaching its lowest level since November 2009. October’s CFNAI-MA3 suggests that growth in national economic activity was below its historical trend for the fifth consecutive month. With regard to inflation, the amount of economic slack reflected in the CFNAI-MA3 suggests subdued inflationary pressure from economic activity over the coming year.
November 24th, 2010 at 3:25 am
Looks like the elite, like Timmy G get to skip screenings.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/11/some_government_officials_can.html
November 24th, 2010 at 3:35 am
I heard that TSA now stands for “Tickle Someone’s A**”. Does anyone know if this is true?
November 24th, 2010 at 7:57 am
Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans support full-body scanners at airports
November 24th, 2010 at 8:04 am
Is there another phone number if you’d like to date the TSA agent who patted you down?
November 24th, 2010 at 8:32 am
Meanwhile, why is the market open a full day today, when everyone is trying to get away, and a half day Friday, when no one is going anywhere? It should be the opposite.
November 24th, 2010 at 8:53 am
Every other year our family, about 20 of us, travel to the Happiest Place on earth for 8 days. We have already received our travel programs from Disney. Last weekend we, as a family, got together and spoke about this. WE ARE NOT GOING. I have called and e-mailed Disney about this and told them that they will need to go into the airline industry themselves and gaurantee this will not happen to their guests to get us back there. For now, we are talking with Hershey Park and seeing what they can do for a group of 20.
As for flying and the TSA. GOD HELP THE PERSON THAT LAYS HANDS ON MY 12YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, MALE OR FEMALE. They will need the police present and an ambulance.
I have decided that if I have to travel for work and they want me to travel in January to give some seminars to branches on the importance of credit management I will request a few things.
1) I want a new pair of gloves on that inspector.
2) I want the police present, so I can formally file a Sexual Assualt charge the second they go over the line. Going over the line would be anything I cannot do to a stranger in a bar.
3) I want the same pllice present, to make sure that I have a certifiable witness to the actions I will take n defending myself from such a sexual assault.
If this slows things dow for anyone else or shuts lines down, sobeit. The Government does not care about our rights, and I will no longer care about anyone else around me while I am being violated.
November 24th, 2010 at 8:58 am
Ya know…the republican – democrat bullshit on these boards is really getting annoying. Why can;t you realize that this is an AMERICAN issue. Concerning our bodies, our freedoms and the Constitution. Stop blaming sides and work together to do soemthing. I am so sick of the petty bickering…and nothing getting done because of it.
November 24th, 2010 at 9:24 am
BR, be careful of the poll you are looking at… every single one I’ve seen in the news has been the ABC News/Washington Post survey. (ie. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45531.html)
Why does it matter? Because the poll is biased:
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/washington-post-abc-news-push-poll-on-strip-search-machines/
November 24th, 2010 at 9:28 am
For example, when you look at the USA Today/Gallup poll (http://www.11alive.com/rss/rss_story.aspx?storyid=164507) that surveys actual flyers:
“The thorough pat-downs, akin to what police give suspects and which were in place at all airports Nov. 1, bother or anger 57% of adult fliers, according to the poll conducted Nov. 19-21 of Americans who have flown at least twice in the past year and released Tuesday.”
November 24th, 2010 at 10:02 am
GeorgeBurnsWasRight Says:
November 24th, 2010 at 8:04 am
Is there another phone number if you’d like to date the TSA agent who patted you down?
reply:
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What happens if someone moans in delight while getting a pat down? If you cry “Oh Baby.. Yes!” and sound like you mean it, do you get special treatment in a back room?
What do the rules say if the TSA examiner gets a fart or two in the face?
November 24th, 2010 at 10:33 am
FOR THE RECORD: I’M OPPOSED TO THE TRASHING OF FREEDOM AND THE CONSTITUTION NOT A POLITICAL PARTY.
I voted for Nader. And Perot. And a few other independents. I don’t blame just Bush or just Obama. This country started going to the dogs in the 1960s.
The blogger supporting Obama – realize I wouldn’t have a bone to pick with him IF he was making things better. When he got elected I supported him, his promise was to get rid of the lobbyists and get our troops home. Now we get neither and we get communist cavity searches?
To think he is doing good or not to blame as much as Bush? Come on.
November 24th, 2010 at 10:52 am
Hey maybe if your country didn’t go around killing Muslims all the time, you wouldn’t have to inconvienance your sorry spoiled ass.
November 24th, 2010 at 10:57 am
There are several very serious problems here. The first is that the screening is utterly useless in deterring a determined attack, but 100% guaranteed to traumatize several groups of innocent people (anyone who has been sexually assaulted in the past, and anyone who is overly sensitive to touching – autistics are an example – are two groups who will likely find this completely prohibitive of air travel). Where is the balance between the encroachment into our privacy and the need by the state, a balance required under the constitution?
Second, there has been a slow creep against the free movement of people in this country that is becoming concerning. Has anyone else noticed the arguments that we should just stay home, or take the bus, if we don’t like being abused? What happened to freedom to travel, upon which some very important privacy rulings at the Supreme Court level were based? Creep. . . .creep. . . .creep.
Third, you can’t just avoid the patdown by submitting to the eradiating nude photo. Should some part of you fail to photograph clearly, or should something else about you excite interest (I’ll let you guys use your prurient minds there), you STILL get the pat down. It isn’t like you can “submit” and ensure that you won’t get felt up — you could wind up with both. In my case, I am the lucky recipient of some permanent metal parts — life has, in the past, been uncomfortable for me based on that (my last pat down under the OLD, now QUAINT method was enough to end my interest in flying). It’s likely about to get ridiculous. Exactly what papers will I need to start carrying to move freely inside the country – to say nothing of trying to get in or out?
And finally, you spend a lot of time as a mother teaching your kids about the “no go zones” that no one is supposed to touch. Now I’m supposed to let some stranger feel up my children just because they say so? Purportedly, they are supposed to exempt children under 12 from the procedure, according to some sources; problem is, I have encountered more than my share of TSA agents who either ignore the official rules or are on a power trip. What are the chances that they will demand to feel up my kids? Why would my 13 year old daughter be subjected, but not my 12 year old son? What proof of their age will I be required to carry around — for domestic travel — that I didn’t used to be required to carry and it was illegal to ask for?
The very idea of this is stupid and offensive. Just because some people are ok with sacrificing basic rights for no discernible reason – just because some authority figure said that they should – is not what we’re supposed to base constitutional law on. And I guarantee you that 90% of the people who are for this have not been through airport security lately, much less with the new procedures in place.
November 24th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
JimRino Says:
November 24th, 2010 at 12:54 am
I’m getting tired of this Hypocrisy.
You all are harping about those pat-downs, the prosthetic leg searches, the breast implants, etc…
But you all will be the first and the loudest if a terrorist uses these very same techniques to blow up a plane.
Jack Says:
November 23rd, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Walk through the friggin’ machine and save your outrage for something important. I’m old enough to have had my feet x-rayed as a kid because Mom was buying me a pair of shoes. The doses I got then were enormous compared to what we get now.
Suck it up and live dangerously.
WELL SAID BY BOTH OF YOU. WALK THROUGH THE FRIGGIN” MACHINE! The ACLU has reached a new level of fine-tuning this country’s citizens into screaming about everything. Maybe this country needs to have its level of concern reset by some terrorist on an inbound plane with a bomb up his a__hole.
November 24th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
November 24th, 2010
Via: The Hill:
The next step in tightened security could be on U.S. public transportation, trains and boats.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists will continue to look for U.S. vulnerabilities, making tighter security standards necessary.
“[Terrorists] are going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through,” Napolitano said in an interview that aired Monday night on “Charlie Rose.”
“I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime. So, what do we need to be doing to strengthen our protections there?”
Napolitano’s comments, made a day before one of the nation’s busiest travel days, come in the wake of a public outcry over newly implemented airport screening measures that have been criticized for being too invasive.
The secretary has defended the new screening methods, which include advanced imaging systems and pat-downs, as necessary to stopping terrorists. During the interview with Rose, Napolitano said her agency is now looking into ways to make other popular means of travel safer for passengers and commuters.
Napolitano isn’t the only one who’s suggested that advanced scanning machines could be used in places beyond airports.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, introduced legislation this past September that would authorize testing of body scanners at some federal buildings.
Related: Full-Body Scanners Popping Up at Courthouses
http://cryptogon.com/?p=18868
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USA Rose, Charlie Producer, Rose Communications
http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/participants_2010.html
http://search.yippy.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&v%3Aproject=clusty&query=Bilderberg+Group
November 24th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
TSA security theater:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/tsa-scans-security-theater-interview?click=pm_latest
November 24th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
My favorite oxymoron statement in these comments above is that we should live dangerously by submitting to security procedures that will supposedly make us safe.
Based upon what I read above and hearing in the media, I am bullish on FEAR. Anybody got any investment ideas where one could buy futures on American Fear?
November 24th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
The 1972 cartoon must apply to Europe. In 1974, my ETS date had arrived and I was heading home after 15 months in West Germany. I flew on a commercial flight out of Hamburg. They had two booths with a curtains, and a man and woman conducted a pat down search of each passenger.
November 24th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Based upon what I read above and hearing in the media, I am bullish on FEAR. Anybody got any investment ideas where one could buy futures on American Fear?
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Big pharma and alcohol have you covered big time
November 24th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
But at least it’s effective…
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/adam-savage-tsa-saw-my-junk-missed-12-razor-blades.ars
You can skip past the first minute or so. I don’t doubt the truth of this. Circa 2002, post 9-11, my roommate made a round trip flight without realizing he had a 3 inch camping/hunting blade in his backpack (which of course went through the x-ray tunnel… twice) until he got home.
I know I’m glad that 90%+ of the passengers around me on the “sterile side” are completely inattentive to a potential real threat, thanks to being lulled into a false sense of security. I like it so much, I’m going to do it again here in a few hours. Before I leave, does anyone know if “death to infidels” tee-shirts are on the TSA approved list? I know a dull 1-inch key-chain knives aren’t, but Hezbollah flags are. Wish me and my privates luck!
November 24th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Sad part is that to be fool proof they would have to conduct a vaginal and rectal exam on every single passenger. Anything else is easy to get past – as any jailbird or jailguard can tell you. Anything short of that is just useless humiliation of passengers invented by some idiotic who wanted to enhance his/her importance by coming up with something that looked like (s)he was doing his/her job. We have let the terrorists win; they spend a few hundred thousand dollars, and then we begin sequriting and terrorizing each other to the tune of over 100 billion per year.
November 24th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
THE MACHINES DO NOT MAKE IT SAFER Google El Al Airlines ex security chief and naked body scanners.
THIS IS ALL ABOUT MONEY. Rapiscan owns Obama.
November 24th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=227489
“So we can thank President Obama for this frontal assault on our Fourth Amendment rights. Mind you, this is the same man who insisted that ‘we will not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans,’” Whitehead said.