Someone needs to sue the TSA

[south ov da border]

I get the "you've been selected for a random screening" everytime I go on a flight. I get tired of it...

[lisaparadise]

The only folks who should be screened are those on TSA's 'watch list'. EVERYONE does not need to be screened, IMO.

everybody with darker skin then me should be scanned period.

[giovanni_hotel]

everybody with darker skin then me should be scanned period.

I have significantly darker skin than you and have done the drill at an airport.
Shit is a hassle, but what are you gonna do??

And Bella, you do know that a terrorist plot was recently uncovered, originating from Yemen, where terrorists were attempting to send explosives in cargo planes hidden in computer printer toner cartridges??

Just because 9/11 happened 10 years ago, let's not pretend Islamic psychos aren't plotting daily on how to punch the United States in the nose.
The first World Trade Center attack happened in 1993, and those fuccers waited NINE YEARS until they finally hatched a plan capable of bringing those buildings down.

You may not be at war with Al Qaeda, Bella, but I promise you those nut-jobs are STILL fiending on how to simultaneously blow up multiple airplanes.

[BellaBellucci]

I have significantly darker skin than you and have done the drill at an airport.
Shit is a hassle, but what are you gonna do??

And Bella, you do know that a terrorist plot was recently uncovered, originating from Yemen, where terrorists were attempting to send explosives in cargo planes hidden in computer printer toner cartridges??

Just because 9/11 happened 10 years ago, let's not pretend Islamic psychos aren't plotting daily on how to punch the United States in the nose.
The first World Trade Center attack happened in 1993, and those fuccers waited NINE YEARS until they finally hatched a plan capable of bringing those buildings down.

You may not be at war with Al Qaeda, Bella, but I promise you those nut-jobs are STILL fiending on how to simultaneously blow up multiple airplanes.

I think you're just scurrrrred!

Oh, and do tell how subjecting passengers to a full body search is going to find explosives in cargo?! As you already pointed out, cargo is our 'weakest link, Goodbye!'

~BB~

[giovanni_hotel]

Remember that Nigerian student a few months ago who tried to smuggle explosives in his underwear on a airline from the UK to the U.S.??
There is a middle ground between paranoia and willful blindness.

Bella I bet the next time a building blows up or a jet airliner explodes in a fireball, you'll be one of the first people out here railing against the incompetence of the federal government and wondering why they didn't protect us, the bitch about why we're invading another Middle Eastern country.

[NYBURBS]

Bella, you only say that because you don't probably know anyone who works for the Federal government. There are major security holes in U.S. commercial air flight, and to imply who cares if the occasional plane or two blows up every once in a while just so you can maintain your 'privacy' is not a rational response, IMO.

If you travel to Israel, expect to be thoroughly 'screened' and interrogated before being allowed to board or leave the country.
The problem with the current screening in the U.S. is that it doesn't need to be so anatomically precise in order to detect if someone is smuggling banned items.

For the most part, those watch lists are compiled by various intelligence agencies and reference high value individuals. Sure, sometimes a random passenger's name cross-references with a suspected enemy agent on the TSA 'watch list', but it's not a common occurrence.

The more planes that are blown up over American airspace by terrorists, the more draconian the response will be from the public and the government.

Better to take a little bitter pill now, than be forced to carry a bio-metric RFID I.D. card in the future that tracks you from the minute you walk out of your front door.

There are major security holes in just about every part of society, but the point is that unless you want to live in a totalitarian state then you need to just deal with it. Ending up on a watch list that prevents you from traveling by air, without so much as a hearing before hand, and then having no real way to get off of it, is a blatant violation of due process imo. Of course that has never stopped the government before.

Invasive body scans, excessive pat downs, secret "enemy" lists, etc are all signs of deterioration into a police state. Justifications could be found for any number of heavy handed tactics, but that does not mean that we should want to live in a society that employs those practices.

[giovanni_hotel]

Better the government overreacts now than allow the country to get hit again and some cowboy/momma grizzly in the WH starts lobbing ICBMs at the Middle East.

In lieu of the latter case, I'm perfectly willing to endure the inconvenience of a pat-down or an airport screen to prevent this government from starting WWIII.

[BellaBellucci]

Remember that Nigerian student a few months ago who tried to smuggle explosives in his underwear on a airline from the UK to the U.S.??
There is a middle ground between paranoia and willful blindness.

Bella I bet the next time a building blows up or a jet airliner explodes in a fireball, you'll be one of the first people out here railing against the incompetence of the federal government and wondering why they didn't protect us, the bitch about why we're invading another Middle Eastern country.

That's not fair. First of all, I've already said on this thread that I'll take my chances. I really couldn't say it unequivocally enough. And did you read the second link I posted? It says that you have a 1 in 25 million chance of being a victim of a terror attack but a 1 in 500,000 chance of being struck by lightning, hence the rubber suit pic in that post.

Furthermore, they terrorize us because we invade their countries. Do you not read your history? It's an endless cycle that perpetuates the need for our crippling defense budget and greatly pleases the overlords of the military-industrial complex.

Are you kidding me? You can do better. I have faith in you.

~BB~

[BellaBellucci]

Better the government overreacts now than allow the country to get hit again and some cowboy/momma grizzly in the WH starts lobbing ICBMs at the Middle East.

In lieu of the latter case, I'm perfectly willing to endure the inconvenience of a pat-down or an airport screen to prevent this government from starting WWIII.

Point scored. Palin's an idiot.

~BB~

[JoePitt]

Wasn't it one of you lot who said this?
Guess times change

So not going through an airport scanner is an "Essential Liberty"? I don't think it even comes close to being that.