House GOP Moves to Cut Funds to TSA‘s ’Naked Body’ Scanners
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans controlling the Transportation Security Administration‘s purse strings are moving to cut off funding for those advanced airport scanners that have sparked outrage over their revealing images of travelers’ bodies.
Draft legislation released Thursday by the Appropriations homeland security subcommittee denies the Obama administration’s $76 million request for an additional 275 of the scanners, which many travelers dislike because TSA employees can view full body images of travelers.
The GOP move wouldn‘t affect the 500 or so machines already in place at 78 of the nation’s airports or the 500 just funded in a recent spending bill. Efforts are under way to solve the privacy concerns with new computer software. TSA currently gives passengers the option of a pat down in private – a choice that most people find even more intrusive.
Panel chairman Robert Aderholt, R-Ala., said his move was sparked by budgetary factors rather than protests from privacy advocates. And it comes as the TSA is trying hard to modify the machines so that they won’t produce revealing images. Instead, the agency is trying out new software that would have the machines read the images and alert airport screeners when there’s a potential weapon or other threat. The screener would then see the location of the threat as shown on a stick figure of the body.
That technology hasn’t been proven yet, and with the new privacy software showing uneven results, Aderholt is refusing the fund additional machines.
“We don’t want to skimp on security but we want to make sure that where we can make smart cuts, we do,” Aderholt said.
The machines are aimed at detecting things like explosives and other threats that don’t set off metal detectors. They follow an earlier generation of machines that puffed air at passengers that proved to be too fragile and expensive to maintain.
Defending the program, Homeland Security Department spokesman Adam Fetcher said that since early 2010 the full body scanners have led to the detection of nearly 210 prohibited, illegal or dangerous items at checkpoints nationwide.
Opponents of the machines took heart in the panel’s decision.
“They’re a nuisance. They’re slow. And they’re ineffective,” said Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a longtime critic, adding that the machines aren’t not used to screen visitors to high-profile targets like the White House or the Capitol. The bottom line is that … they‘re just not as effective as a good ol’ German shepherd.”
Chaffetz won a 310-118 vote on the House floor last year to cut off funding for the machines but the administration and the Senate refused to go along. The likelihood of a similar outcome this year may have reinforced the decision to withhold the funds.
But advocates of the full body technology say that the alternative to the machines are even more intrusive pat downs – such as recent high-profile incidents in which a baby was patted down at the Kansas City airport and a 6-year-old was upset after being frisked at the New Orleans airport. They say people far prefer the full body screenings than a hand-on pat down.
“Now they will have to hand search more people. More hand search means a lot more expense than using the technology,” said Peter Kant, Executive Vice President of Rapiscan Systems, one of the two companies that makes the machines. “Ninety-five-plus percent of people would rather be scanned than go through a pat down.”
Kant was referring to a CBS News poll last year that also showed 81 percent of respondents support the full body scanners despite a concerted campaign by opponents.
The government has already spent about $1 billion on the machines. That big an investment ensures they probably aren’t going anywhere.
And the machines have powerful advocates like Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee. A Rapiscan plant in his state employs 20 people manufacturing the machines.
“The whole-body-imaging machines have something that (bomb-sniffing) dogs don’t have,” Chaffetz said. “Lobbyists.”
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The Gooch
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:43amWorking smarter, not harder is not a concept govt. and its defenders will ever embrace. This story alludes to the two primary problems in contemporary U.S. politics and culture: Influence peddling and obdurate ideological stances. You don‘t encourage a program because it’s the most cost-effective or efficient method of addressing a concern; you champion it because of ideology and self-interest. It’s shamefully stupid to treat everyone like a criminal when we are a hard ten years in to knowing who the threat is: Religious and extremist zealots. Every restrictive measure imposed upon you as a citizen can likely be traced back to a relatively small number of busy bodies (left or right… but arguably the left loves this control of the masses far more than the right) who know what’s best for you and are intent upon either saving or molding the world. As long as the status quo remains, expect the machines and their champions to remain. Isn’t it telling that more effort will be put into restricting the travel of private citizens than controlling the immigration of illegal aliens? Laugh it up, ol’ Chuckles Obama and Co. It’s all a big joke. This ain’t hard to figure out, folks. I know I’m a broken record with this analogy, but look at what the govt. encourages states and cities to do with gun control and then turns around and asserts the same entities can’t enforce immmigration law. Bald faced insanity fueled by ideology and elitism.
Report Post »Sidhekitten
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:17amEveryone caught on to the old “new” trick the progressives are pulling out? We mention any radical islamist/jihadist and the mouthpiece squeals about the white supremacists waiting to strike. Put a little truth inside a big lie and presto, an idiotic argument may be able to play with a couple of people. May it fall as flat as “baby bombs”.
Report Post »alrunner58
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:13amRacial profiling and getting rid of the vermin in the White house is the answer.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:11amAmericans can stop this by refusing to participate. Is your freedom worth some inconvenience ? Is your freedom worth more than getting somewhere ‘fast’ ? Is your freedom worth finding other modes of transportation ? Today in this ‘instant’ world, freedom is given away easily and quickly in order to receive ‘wants’. Are we willing to change ‘wants’ for ‘needs’ and protect our freedoms ??
Airport ‘security’ is one of the most ridiculous hoaxes ever played on the American public.
Do you really feel your tax money is being well spent by allowing strangers to touch children and babies, while at the very same moment in time terrorists are walking across our southern borders ???? How many UNION JOBS will be paid for today with money borrowed from China while terrorists and drug mules cross the border with the intentions of killing Americans? Is this the best this country can do ???? If this is the Best America ‘will do’ then perhaps we deserve the loss of freedoms, but I will not give up, and I will not give in. How about standing up for America and STOP the INSANITY coming out of this administration which is determined to destroy us.
Report Post »TAKEITBACK
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:51amThe T&A has yet to stop any threat, this is pure indoctrination for things to come. Next it will be trains and then buses. I will not fly again until this injustice is corrected.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:16amYou are absolutely right. How much money has been spent…what has that money produced ??? The very first information ‘found’ in UBL’s treasure trove of plots just HAPPENS to point to trains and transportation…where the PUPPET wants MORE money to be ‘invested’…meaning more Union jobs.
Report Post »David, the Constitutional Libertarian
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:39amPatriot Dave, I do not know if you had seen my reply on anarchists, here is the link to my comment-
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/palin-hells-no-i-wouldnt-vote-to-raise-the-debt-limit/
By the way, bomb sniffing dogs are much more effective.
As for you JZS, I think you should be placed in a rubber sterile room to protect you from everything in the world, including yourself. Maybe have you in a straight jacket and fed a paste to prevent you from choking.
You are more likely to die from a lightening strike or shark attack than from terrorism.
Odds of being a terrorist victim on a flight one in 10,000,000.
Odds of being killed by lightening one in 500,000.
Sorry JZS we the people are not fraid little girls. By the way, duck and cover!
Report Post »LindaB11
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:34amThe scanners should be defunded until they have better ones. These scanners take too much time to show the image. If you go to Europe your scan comes up immediately when you go through and it takes a minute and you’re on your way. Here it takes 10 minutes to get through because they make you wait and stand on a mat with little yellow feet patterns until it comes up as they rifle through your belongings and take your toothpaste. The US makes this process much worse than it has to be. .
Report Post »glorious
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:33amI watched as a 65-year old caucasian woman asked the agent if she should take off her (simple) jewelry before going through the metal detector. TSA said no. When it was her turn, he sent her through he body scanner. She looked surprised but didn’t complain. THEN they patted her down as well. She had a simple outfit, not even a belt. I heard her say nicely that she thought there were no patdowns if you used the scanner. The woman told her it was because she wore her jewelry….????!!!! Two bracelets, two rings and a necklace. What is wrong with those people?
Report Post »P4cooler
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:04amThis is a good start to stop the ASSAULT of Obama and Janet against the American public.
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 6:56amUmm, a Virtual Strip Search is just as, if not a bigger, violation of the 4th amendment than a pat down is…
Infact there is case law to support cops doing a “frisk” to check for weapons, there is no case law supporting random or mandatory strip searches
Report Post »Lee_in_PA
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 6:53amDon‘t fly and won’t fly. Not that it matters to the airlines. But it’s MY choice. I even hate to have dental x-rays. Why would I want to volunteer to walk thru a machine that exposes you in SO many ways?
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 5:49amWaking up, folks! Way to go, AMERICA.
We will NOT fly until you stop this madness. We can walk, drive, swim, run, whatever or, now get this: stay home! Talk via phone. Write one another long letters and send photos like we used to “in the old days”.
Just saying!
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 5:37amI’m going the stand in front of the white house, and give myself a TSA enhanced pat down.
Report Post »jim
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 3:05amWhat moron is going to carry a handgun into those scanners.
Report Post »gdog1111111
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:59amOh boy it’s my turn to pretend I am a community organizer like our president. “Hey everybody how about not booking flights through airports that have these scanners or avoid flying period, hitting thier pocket book is the only message they will listen to.
Report Post »caprica
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:45amthose scaners are dangerous! in a couple or years you will hear about millions of people getting cancer !
Report Post »obama will not secure the boarders …….but he want American people to be scanned !
this admistration is a disaster ! bunch of chuligans and thugs running this country – sorros is dictating and paying for their loyalty …..soros is the biggest investor in brazil to drill oil and obama gave brazil 2 billions of our dollars and our technology to drill…and promised brazil that USA will b e theire biggest consumer …at the same time obama place a ban to drill in USA ! …..so gerorge sorros will re-gain back all of t he money that he paid for obama’s electon ….and Acorn and Media
Sorros owns CNN, SBC, NBC, MSNBC….they all taking billions from Soros …..the Union Bosses and Acorn they all sitting in Soros Pocket !
Obama and his gang are geroge soros and saudis puppets on the string ! and American People are aware of that !
shewhoknows
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:29amTalk about a loss of freedom: at least those of you who live in the contiguous United States can drive, train, bus, bicycle, whatever to get to where you want to go. For those of us in Alaska or Hawaii, if we want to visit family, we have to be sexually molested or subjected to radiation. Therefore we in my family do not get to visit our family or Disneyland or anything else until they get rid of the molesters and RADS. I will not fly nor put my 20 year old on a plane to be molested by TSA. I wish everyone in the US would boycott flying until the current system is removed. Israel does just fine with behavioral inspections, profiling, and sniffer dogs; all of this is much more effective than hiring gropers.
Report Post »Nightfall
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:29amI‘ve stopped flying until either I won’t get radiation poisoning or molested if I want to travel. Solution? Write a message to the screeners in zinc oxide under your clothes. The metallic paste should show on the scan. Maybe if they get cursed out enough, they’ll do something that actually works.
Report Post »LastCallForEmpathy
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:26amWhen i found out chertoff was making profit off of those machines, well, thats pretty much when the cat was out of the police state bag…
“Those who an give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety” Benjamin Franklin
Report Post »Goldenyears22
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:14amThat is so embarrassing. These people need to use their common sense and understand that most Americans, probably, 99% aren’t guilty. Gotta do some profiling, I dont’ care what they say about it not being fair. It is fair to understand who the ones are most likely to blow us up.
Report Post »dizzyinthedark
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:19amI say stop the radiating (I don’t need anymore!), stop with the pat downs and BRING IN THE DOGS! Bring in a few trained to smell different weapons. Those that are suspect, then take em away! Radiate your carryon all you want, just stop with the full body scanning!
Report Post »ramburner
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:11amUntil Congress acts and begins profiling, I will not fly domestically. The TSA is a liberal joke and they provide no extra security. They have learned how to spend massive amounts of money and how to disrupt our lives. If we leave it to them, they will surely destroy the air transport system. But that may be what Obama wants.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:24amPROFILING, PROFILING, PROFILING!! And common sense – it wasn’t red-haired Irishmen or blue-haired Granny who hi-jacked those planes. Profiling is exactly whats needed! Its been said 100′s of times – look at El Al (Israeli Airline). They’ve perfected profiling AND have offerred to train “TSA” agents in this country.
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:10amYou people have nothing to worry about, your junk will not be seen, after all they are not using microscopes. just kidding, just kidding.
What’s weird is that i just got back from a vacation to Mexico and they checked our bags in Mexico but when we got back here in the states a guy checked our passports and that was it, no search or anything.
With more and more born losers like Taliban Terry running around I‘m afraid just checking the Arabs and people who smell like camels isn’t going to work.
Report Post »tbb
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:04amFirst off the children were not patted down they were sexually assaulted. Anyone going through these machines has no idea of the pervert who is watching the screen. Anyone who works for the TSA are perverts. If they weren‘t they wouldn’t be working there!
Report Post »marathon_mom
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:59amThis is meaningless… it still leaves all the machines that are already out there up and running, AND it means more people will be subjected to the frisking. This is just the GOP making stupid gestures as we approach the election next year. Too little, WAY too late.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:45amI have an idea – come of up with some way to check that people with explosives aren’t getting on the plane!! Just saying – we have to do something. http://wp.me/pYLB7-Y6
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:45amIf everyone didn’t fly for a month .. you think some of this crap wouldn’t stop? … I won’t fly .. next month I will be driving .. over 1,500 miles one way .. seeing others say that they won’t fly either I wonder just how many passengers this garbage has cost them.
Soon it will only be the guys who are trying to get into the cockpit shouting “Allah Akbar” that will be flying.
Report Post »Dolt
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:00amHEAR HEAR!!!! The Republicans are a damn joke. They are the ones who put TSA in the airports to begin with. The democrats are a joke too… for 8 years it was nothing but how awful the Patriot Act is, but when they had a chance to get rid of it, they did not. In fact they voted to EXTEND it. Washington is playing us from both sides and we are just bending over and taking it. We deserve what we get.
Report Post »Code_Orange
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:03amI want to know, Where did they get permission to use that photo of BetterDays? ((BigJayInPA))
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:57pmAfter being scanned, they had him disrobe and realized he didnt even have a holster, the revolver just stays there.
Report Post »Sam Brown
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:45amI won’t fly again until they quit checking my junk.
Sam
Report Post »jeffyfreezone
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:50amIt’s about time somebody stopped this madness. Now if only they’ll start shaking down guys named Mohammed…
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:51amWrong move .
Report Post »Keep the scanners, user them EXCLUSIVELY on moosies+moosies with Christian names+Black Panthers+Nation of iSlam +CAIR+ WH people.
Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:52amThis is a microcosm of why we’ll never solve the debt problem in this country. Everyone wants it to happen to someone else and not them. Shake down the other guy. I’m not a threat. Cut funding to what you want, not what I want. on and on.
you’ll never be satisfied.
Report Post »not-a-lib
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:53amwow.. you can see EVERYTHING! The speed at which our freedoms are being stripped, literally, is frightening!!
Report Post »Huguenot Descendant
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:55amI won‘t fly again until they stop showing your or anyone else’s junk either. Congrats on the GOP for finally making some common sense decisions. Actually should instead thank the Tea Party.
Report Post »not-a-lib
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:58amI wonder if they make iron jockstraps?
Report Post »copper
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:08amI will NOT FLY either, neither will my son or daughter-in-law. I don‘t believe I’m the only one. This has NOTHING to do with safety on planes. I do NOT believe that they have found ANYTHING using these radiation spewers.
Why do you think you must have a trained radiologist take x-rays. Radiation is dangerous, common lung x-rays are more dangerous than you think. People were panicking over radiation from the nuclear plant from JAPAN but they docilely line up like cattle and allow themselves to be subjected to dangerous levels of radiation by x-rays performed by UNTRAINED STOOGES where they are not even shielded when waiting in line..
I am appalled at the herd of cattle this nation has become. They allow Scambo’s brownshirts to do anything they please. It’s sickening.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:21amYou betcha. WIthout the scanners or the grope, anyone with a degree in Chemistry (or a terrorist of course), can walk into an airplanew with a golf ball size amount of PETN (shoe bomber explosive) in their pants and blow a plane out of the sky. Or ten of those guys could blow 10 airplanes out of the sky. Twenty guys, take a guess!
Who gives a dang? I just don’t want them touching my junk! This is about me! Not all those other flyers on the plane! Idiots.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:21amI’m sorry, but the governments word that aren’t going to use the old software and that the new software is different means absolutely nothing to me. The word of a liar is still a lie. My borders lay wide open, yet you suffer me and my fellow country men with perverse search‘s because you won’t profile? Your words don’t meet your actions, you have a motive behind what you are doing and it has nothing to do with my safety nor my security. It’s about controlling me, and should I ever fly again and you be so unwise as to attempt this perversion upon me or mine then I will gladly go to prison for incapacitating the criminal who attempts to fondle mine or me, I will not stand for your abuse , No my false government I’m not your slave nor your tool.
Report Post »“be a workman, and study to show yourself approved.”
CatB
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:23amFrom what I understnad dogs can do this work … for less money and a whole lot less invasion of privacy .. I would rather have a dog sniff me than a body scan or being felt up by a TSA worker. I won’t fly until they start profiling!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:28amCatB
Report Post »From what I understnad dogs can do this work
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But muslims don’t like dogs, its in the koran :D
Hussein won’t allow it
thepatriotdave
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:30amjeffyfreezone
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:50am
It’s about time somebody stopped this madness. Now if only they’ll start shaking down guys named Mohammed…
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Amen!
For all the leftist banter about how the Tea Party has lost it’s political importance, it sure seems to me that the Republicans are starting to “get-it” when it comes to what the Tea Party is actually about. I call this PROGRESS! Not the silly leftist kind of progress, real progress.
Allen West Petitions…
Report Post »http://www.AmericasTeaPartyNews.com
CatB
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:38amcheezwhiz
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:28am
CatB
From what I understnad dogs can do this work
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But muslims don’t like dogs, its in the koran :D
Hussein won’t allow it
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@CHEEZ
That’s how dogs can “weed” them out .. that or we hand out pork sandwiches before boarding.
If BO doesn’t like it too bad .. make him fly commercial a few times and he won’t want to be blown up or slammed into a building either!
:-) ;-) ;-)
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:47am@ CatB
Report Post »Speaking of dogs, whats up with that dog the Hussains brought with such media fanfare ?
Haven’t seen that cute little thing in a while, its always the girls and big moma and her moma getting on the royal chopper / AF-1 . No sign of that dog. I mean BO. I mean their dog Bo .
I hope he has not been discarded after being used . I hope the WH is not zabiha+halal compliant
Dolt
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:48am“…advocates of the full body technology say that the alternative to the machines are even more intrusive pat downs”
Um NO. The alternative is NOT more pat-downs. The alternative is to either profile or to do nothing. They have completely twisted the narrative to force us to choose between two negative, liberty-reducing choices as if those are the only choices.
How long are we going to allow this to continue. I have already written and called my representatives on this topic several times over the last year. What has been done about it? Nothing. A vote to maybe defund future machines? That’s nothing. How about REMOVING existing ones and changing the damn policy. Take real action.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:55amJZS in a word.PROFILE …………
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:55am@CHEEZ
They brought him (Bo the dog not BO the $*#&*) out — I think it was for Easter– when BO and MO were reading a book .. I think they use him for a prop .. kind of like the kids that grandma is raising —… only photo ops.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:58am@CHEEZ
They probably have Bo tied out behind the W.H. .. I am not being “racist” or anything but I once heard a black comedian state that if you untie a black persons dog from the yard they don’t know what to do, they just stand there because they are so used to being tied out. LOL .. I didn’t say it he did!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:09amNow cut funds to the WH and BoHO!!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:36am@ CatB
Report Post »Its not easy with all those voces in one’s head.
He has a voice in his head telling him to tie the dog in the backyard,
he has another voice telling him to luv the innocent animal ,
and then there is that ‘ most beautiful voice in the world ’ telling him that its an unclean animal ……..
Sinista MACE
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:40amYAY!!
Tell those Nazis to stop slow-cooking us like frogs, damnit.
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:59amI have refused the scanner everytime. We can’t even get on an airplane without our junk being checked, yet the illegal immigrants cross our borders everyday carrying whatever they want. Secure the damn borders! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le53dbWpg_Q Illegal means illegal.
Report Post »Code_Orange
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:01amGood. I am tired of living in fear. Go back to pre-911 budgets and disband TSA and DHS. Thanks.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:11amThanks Obama, because of you and your buddies, I get to drive my kids 1000miles this Summer to visit their Grandma, because I don’t want them to be sexually molested, exposed to radiation and have pornographic pictures taken of them. Oh, and to make things even more fun, I get to pay over $4 per gallon for the gas I will use.
Report Post »Class2000Generation
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 9:37amI’m with you @ Sam Brown
Roadtripping with 2 little ones under 7yrs old may be torture but I refuse to put my kids or myself through their “security” measures.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 9:40am…
I knew the machines were a scam when I learned they (Rapidscan) were being sold
by Michael Chertoff former head of DHS. Great, create a need, then fill it.
The CEO of the other company, Pro Vision, is a big Obama contributer.
The machines are the biggest transfer of tax dollars to Washington insiders yet.
In the scan shown in the story, the guy has a gun. The metal detector would have found that.
Don’t forget, the underwear bomber evaded all that by getting on in Amsterdam. Simple.
Report Post »Meanwhile, we all continue the kabuki theater.
Nick84
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 10:08amLet’s start profiling Muslims and white conservatives, since they are the groups responsible for both major terrorist attacks in recent history.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 10:09amThe Underwear Bomber was handwalked onto the plane by a well-dressed man, suspected to be CIA.
Report Post »CottonMPG
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 11:34amEveryone gets checked regardless of what they are named. Do you think there are no people in this country, born in this country, named Joe Miller, that could be coerced into carrying a bomb because terrorists kidnapped a child, or paid off with money for the person’s family when that person has a serious illness that makes them feel like a burden or that they will die from soon? Maybe they can just kidnap or buy a child on the black market and turn that child into a living bomb. We don’t want our children checked. A mentally ill person or senile old grandma would allow you to pack even more explosives on. Those are the most vulnerable to be used by a terrorist. The weakest people often depend on others dress them. If we stop checking them we guarantee terrorists a 100% success rate when they use them to carry their bombs.
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