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Feds Fight Back on TSA Security

WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — Officials are defending new anti-terrorism security procedures at the nation’s airports that some travelers complain are overly invasive and intimate.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says in a USA Today opinion piece that body scanners used at many airports are safe and the images viewed in private.

She says pat-downs have been used for years at airports and measures are in place to protect travelers’ privacy.

“Rigorous privacy safeguards are also in place to protect the traveling public,” Napolitano writes. “All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.”

She goes on to defend pat-downs: “Pat-downs have long been one of the many security measures used by the U.S. and countries across the world to make air travel as secure as possible. They’re conducted by same-gender officers, and all passengers have the right to request private screening and have a traveling companion present during the screening process.”

The head of the Transportation Security Administration, John Pistole, said Monday on NBC’s “Today” show that “everybody wants the best possible security” and the TSA is looking for a balance between security and privacy:

Some travelers fear the scanners may produce unhealthy radiation and complain the pat-downs, which can include touching the inside of travelers’ thighs and feeling their buttocks, are too personal.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Comments (119)

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  • SgtGGP
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:22am

    Here we go. Not the popular view but then I have reviewed your comments and have not come up with working alternatives. My back ground is Correction Officer, Sgt. retired 21 years. My experience involving scanners, wands and pat downs to include strip searches is what correction officers do to keep them selves other employees and prisoners as safe as possible. We control contraband and weapons from being transported around the prison and transportation to outside areas to include hospitals, courts, work details and funeral homes. I understand the problem, and sympathize. I see the pilots and crew’s point of view. Frequent travelers too will feel victimized. Here is where your cooperation is needed. This is new, and full of arguments but in time it will be commonplace if TSA does not dry up and blow away. Our enemies are true to their course and unyielding to compromise. The TSA staff are stressed out. Passengers are stressed out. Flight staff are stressed out. We are all Americans and foreign travelers and we are all stressed out at the check points. Let’s all do ourselves and others a favor, lets stop and think. Take a deep breath and control our feelings, and work at getting past this. I do not like it either, but until a better system is discovered, please work together and respect the difficulty everyone is going through. Think before you speak or act.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:35am

      Ah. Submit. Don’t fight. Learn to accept being treated as a criminal and like livestock. Get used to it. Help us by never once realizing you have rights and dignity as a human being. Submit your children to this groping by adults or make them victims of child pornography, don’t complain, adults never complain about their rights being violated. We‘re just poor TSA agents and we’re so tired of having all of these uppity types going on about “rights”. We’re Only Here To Help. ™

      No thanks. I’d rather never fly herd class airlines again than “accept and submit”, Officer Friendly.

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    • GeeWhiz
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 12:08pm

      Uh, sorry no. I fully understand your position, as I spent years having law enforcement in the family. I have a great deal of respect for what you do every day.

      That being said, this policy is not just jumping the shark, it’s jumping the guy that jumped the shark. We’re done. 99% of the traveling public is just that, the traveling public. Millions of people fly every day without incident prior to all of this. Literally MILLIONS.

      We are not criminals, not in the court system, and not even visiting people in the court system. Innocent people going about our business, our work, our vacation plans. We have generated no suspicion, unless that applies just from being alive. We have fourth amendment rights and they’re being violated daily now, with these policies.

      It’s one thing to be searched before entering a courtroom, and quite another to be searched because you’re on a trip to go visit grandma. And to be treated like criminals or potential ones from jumpstreet is a crap context for the TSA to hold.

      Whatever happened to probable cause? It doesn’t apply anymore? Since when?

      Don’t have Homeland Security tell me what is for our good or my personal good. What is good for me is to fly with reasonable security precautions, but not with draconian ones. It’s not good for me to be concerned about exposure to any level of radiation without medical necessity, nor is it good for me to be concerned as to just how explicit those ‘pat downs’ are done when it’s applied to my MINOR children.

      Why do we not profile? In order to be sensitive. Well, we just traded ‘sensitivity’ for a huge chunk of our Constitutional rights?

      That sir, to me, is just downright nuts and I’m plenty unhappy about it. I have no plans on taking that out on the TSA or anyone else, but I’m not going to just stand here while the rights of every citizen in this country are being stepped on.

      Enough. HS and the TSA need to grow come cojones and profile. I plan on writing and informing them as such.

      And this Thanksgiving, I’m opting out of the machines for me and mine. They’re going to be patting us down. And I’m not apologizing for it.

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    • sawhite
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 12:53pm

      I, too, understand where yur coming from. But it seems as though we are protecting the rights of the criminals while sacrificing the rights of good citizens. Trials not tribunals, lawyers, no waterboarding, closing Gitmo… I certainly don‘t mind sacrificing for the greater good but let’s be sure the enemy is facing greater sacrifice! Let’s not bow down to our enemies (hear that Obama). The difference is you were searching the prisoners who had temporarily lost their right to privacy, but I assume your and the other guards and visitors were not strip searched unless there was probable cause. Continue the metal and explosives scanning, normal pat-downs and step up the profiling, surveillance and interrogation.

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  • dablooz
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:18am

    I remember as a kid, in the 60s and 70s, we’d just get tickets, pretty much proceed to the gate and give the handlers the luggage right there. Dad would light up as soon as the plane was airborne, nobody would belly ache and gripe about a guy having a smoke. Land, get off and grab your bags and go. Not much different than haling a cab. Wow, how times have changed. In Spetember I went to France. I got checked in Ohio, made it through Atlanta unmolested. Got felt up in Paris and then at my final destination, just got off the plane, collected bags and walksed off. Coming back, unpack all of my carry-on and take off shoes in Montpellier, do the same in Paris, get to Atlanta and get to do it twice (since I was arriving from overseas). In addition, I got to pick up my luggage, drop it back off to them (doesn’t make ANY sense) only to be lost in my connecting flight, event though I had it in my hands a couple of hours earlier…. then back home. I hate air travel, but I really used to enjoy it.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:32am

      It‘s quite a shame isn’t it? And it’s utterly unnecessary. For those with short memories, the 1970′s had all kinds of lefty terrorists running around hijacking or threatening to hijack. Our response? Light up your cigarettes and have a drink, and guess what, we were safe.

      But then we were a much more masculine society at the time. Freedom was more important than “safety”, and we looked at troublemaker’s in the eye and told them to buzz off. Today, well…here you go.

      3/4 of this nation has become a bunch of pantie wearing twits. And now their panties are getting searched. And even then we still hear “well, as long as we’re kept safe”. Meh.

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  • Okpulot Taha
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:18am

    JEANNIE MAC comments, “Let these dogs be placed at all security gates.”

    Pigs! Great big fat 500 pound Duroc hogs to sniff at crotches of Muslims.

    Okpulot Taha
    Choctaw Nation

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  • Country
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:16am

    I can imagine this will be all the talk around the diner table this thanksgiving. I can also see the air line industry losing a bunch of business. This is another way the commies are destoying our economy and rights at the same time.

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  • Mark Meed
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:14am

    http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/11/13/janet-napolitano-to-opt-out-passengers-tsa-workers-must-buy-you-dinner-first/

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  • Chett
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:11am

    I wont fly. I do hope lots more people join the refusniks.

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  • buzzmann
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:09am

    Homeland Security is politically correct for HOMELAND TYRANNY

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  • JEANNIEMAC
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:02am

    1.Allowing Muslim women a free pass through security measures is just asking the terrorists to arm the women with explosives that will not be detected. If they do not wish to be scrutinized, don’t fly.

    2. Dogs can be trained to detect any kind of explosive, because of their very sensitive sense of smell. Let these dogs be placed at all security gates.

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    • Kaen
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 3:12pm

      Problem is…the U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled that a canine search of a person is a violation of the 4th Amendment, I know, I was a canine handler for 8 years.

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  • patriot4evah
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:01am

    Profile, profile, profile… We know who the terrorists are.

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  • vg0va3
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:54am

    I always tell them to just take their time and that they should make sure they don’t miss any spots. ;-)

    They are usually so embarrassed they choose to simply “move on, nothing here to see”.

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    • mindbender46
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:46pm

      Hey, that’s a great idea. Smile, make them think you enjoy being groped and if they are straight it will bother them and most likely will give you the short version.
      I love it.

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  • wildturkeywatcher
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:52am

    My cousin, a 66-year-old white male business person who travels often between Atlanta and Dallas, went through the x-ray scanner and was pulled aside for a strip search. He was taken into a room, had to remove his trousers, and was VERY THOROUGHLY patted down. This has never happened before; he kept asking for an explanation and was told that something in the x-ray indicated its necessity. He has two rods in his wrist, placed there to repair a break many years ago. They asked where he was going, why, the name of his company. Now I ask you, he clearly does NOT fit the profile of a terrorist, why was he selected? Was it because he is WHITE? Did he appear to be a Tea Party member or a Republican or something else offensive to TSA? This is one of the most offensive events I have ever heard, and I personally will NOT be going anywhere that requires air transportation.

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    • neverending
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:21pm

      Probably all of the above and I can’t figure out why they want to catch any of the terrorists because it appears they have no intention of prosecuting them only going bonkers to make sure they are treated humanely and fairly and not picked on and just on and on. Worst administration in US history

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  • Diamondback
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:43am

    continued: “… and the industry would demand that DHS and TSA alter their policies in order to get the money flowing again.”

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  • Diamondback
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:42am

    Boycott flying. It’s not that hard. I quit in 1994 after suffering from scumbag TSA employees “mishandling” and arrogant attitudes.

    If I can’t get there in a vehicle or motocycle, I just don’t go.

    It really wouldn’t take long to bring the industry to its knees and the industry

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    • mindbender46
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:44pm

      Perfectly stated. I brought that point up a couple years ago but it seems some people are addicted to flying. If they had refused to fly two years ago this would not be happening now.
      Oh well, some people will accept whatever the gov shoves at them. too bad the rest of us then have to put up with the results.

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  • Sledgehammer
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:39am

    I might be the only one who takes a differant view on this. I’d go for the pat down, and no, I swing only one way! This the way it’s done world wide, I got stripped searched in the Phillipines, (Tried to go with the babe, but they wouldn’t allow it). My son thought it was fuuny as all get go, till I with an head nod got them to do to my son. It was a quite flight home!

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    • Diamondback
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:47am

      Dis you mean “it was a [quiet] flight home“ or ”it was [quite a] flight home”?

      If it was “[quite a] flight home”, in what way please?

      Just curious.

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    • Diamondback
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:48am

      Oops! Should’ve been “Did” vs “Dis”.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:15am

      Oh, well, the rest of the world treats its citizens as cattle, so by golly, it’s great if we do it too! Gee.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:35am

    BIG waste of time and money when Muslims in Burkas and others get a pass when they complain? Also, what’s the point of all these extra measures, when TERRORISTS can walk right in over the Mexican border? I will never understand this.

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  • Mind Boggling
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:34am

    I would be curious to know, does Ms.Napolitano fly commercial? If so, is she subject to these very same invasive and insulting procedures that she is inflicting on the rest of the nation?

    It would also be interesting to see some valid and verified stats on what real terror threats where being thwarted. I have yet to hear any statistics that would set my mind at ease.

    Instead all you hear are that in the organization’s own test runs 50% of the contraband gets through as these liberty-reducing procedures are mostly ineffective.

    The saddest part is that you just know the terrorist are just laughing at us. They did not have to take away our most basic freedoms. They created a situtation in which we willing have done it to ourselves. What more can they ask for? Under the guise of “it is good for you” our Government subverts its own constitutional mandates and becomes a tyrant as much as the terrorist are.

    This is a very sad day in America. In this scenerio we are all guilty until proven innocent.

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    • Holly Woods
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:51am

      You will be glad to know that the world is much safer now. On my last flight the TSA made me hand over a small jar of peanut butter. Although it was not officially listed as a “banned item” and they could give me no clear reason for taking it – they would not let me on the airplane with it.

      Meanwhile, my sister-in-law was shocked to find a cooking knife that she had in her inadvertantly left in her purse got through 2 screenings. She was helping her sister move and in last check through of her apartment they found a large knife in the back of a kitchen drawer. Her hands were full of boxes so she just tucked it in her purse and completely forgot to take it out and give it back to her sister when they unpacked at her new place. She finally noticed it when she got home.

      Don’t you feel safer now?

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    • Highland
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 12:04pm

      If a TSA agent pats you down and gets the slightest bit too physical, file a police report. That agent has committed assault and battery.

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 12:18pm

      Ha Ha Ha I got on with a 12′ bullwhip one time!

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  • Rogue
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:31am

    Since liberals always want to divide us by race/religion on every issue under the sun, let’s roll with them on it for air travel. Forget invasive screening, lets just have separate flights for people of different ethnic backgrounds. It’s been clear for a decade now that the only people interested in blowing up planes are Muslims, so lets let them all fly together. When moderate Muslims are concerned about flying with the wackos anytime they board a plane, maybe they will speak up and stand against the extremists in thier midst.

    Oh wait… maybe there is a simpler solution…. PROFILING!

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  • neverending
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:21am

    Napolitano is as worthless as the day is long and she is just as evil as barry boy,

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    • mexicanhasmyjob
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:36am

      and she would love to be grouped by a real woman.

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    • Okpulot Taha
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:48am

      NEVER ENDING comments, “Napolitano is as worthless….”

      Napolitano is also a liar!

      Napolitano is cited, “The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.”

      Tens of thousands of body scanner images are stored by our federal government, which proved quite the scandal. A quick glance at the TSA procurement procedure for body scanners reveals,

      “allow exporting of image data in real time … high-speed transfer of image data”

      http://epic.org/open_gov/foia/TSA_Procurement_Specs.pdf

      Okpulot Taha
      Choctaw Nation

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  • drbage
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:19am

    Let’s have Clownitano go through a pat down and see how she feels about it. Probably would be the biggest thrill she has gotten in a loooooooooooooong time!

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    • Kaen
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:12am

      Oh grow up people…I am just as anti-intrusive government, anti-obama, pro Constituion et cetera as every other conservative around however, the choice is clear really:

      a. Get screened

      b. get a pat down search

      c. get blown up by terrorists

      People, we can’t have our cake and eat it too. Don’t blame the government for this one…this is a terrorist victory. They have successfully altered our way of life which, of course, is part of their goal. Again, I don’t really agree with it either but, everyone screaming foul about the screening methods are also the first ones that are going to scream foul if something happens and try to blame the gov. for not doing enough to stop it, again…grow up.

      http://thefreeamerica.blogspot.com/

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:20am

      Ah, right, rights no longer apply in times of danger. I’ll get into the Way Back machine and alert the Founding Fathers.

      These are Federal employees. If they want to search me, they need to procure a warrant stating the things to be searched and the specific reasonable suspicion for a search to take place.

      Time to start flying small private aircraft. I won’t put up with this crap. Shame too because I enjoy traveling to Europe. Maybe I can fly into Canada (they don’t do this do they?) and fly out from there?

      No, won’t put up with this crap, and I‘ll be damned if I’m going to let these sick demons touch my daughter or son.

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    • Anonimouse
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:36am

      Sorry KAEN, but all this is show. The TSA reacts – we have a shoe bomber, we take off our shoes, we have a panty bomber, we pose for nude pics.

      Well, the bad guys are hiding bombs in body cavities already. Are you prepared to strip, squat & cough? The latex glove treatment? Because based on the past behavior of airport screeniners, that’s next. Where will you draw the line? Is there a line for you?

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:51am

      So, If a well built woman is imaged everytime she goes through do you think it is OK? I have a friend who gets scanned almost every time she flies and she is clearly of Scandanavian decent. Is the treatment to which she is subjected to protect you, or is she being oggled by perverts?

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  • e009061
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:16am

    Amen Ronko

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  • HKS
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:15am

    Interesting how the government has eased people into this ridiculous process. Chip, Chip, Chipping away at the rights of citizens. At the same time ignoring the people responsible for the reasons that they use. If we need to go this far, shut down air transportation as to dangerous to allow. How about all the people that fly daily? How long before they have some diseases without a name from all the exposure to these x-ray machines. The administration didn’t bat an eye in shutting down oil drilling as “ too dangerous to do”. The war on the southern boarder is totally ignored and now they need to feel your private parts. Is this a great country or what, Thanks Obama.

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  • SND97
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:11am

    Honestly? the only one I like in this administration is Napolitano, she seems right on with most things excpet immigration. But even on O’Reilly she is straight forward, doesn’t duck many things and is a fighter.

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  • GhostOfJefferson
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:09am

    Ah yes, the trusted and true patterned response from this Administration. If you as a regular citizen complain about their actions, and if you do it in large numbers, the administration tells you to kiss its ass. So typical.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:20am

      When I hear the construction of fences and the ban lifted on searching Muslim women, then I will believe this administration is serious about the safety of the American people – not before. Continued lip service.

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  • dablooz
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:04am

    Simple, let folks with concealed carry permits pack heat on flights. Terrorists will be less inclined to do anything if they have to scan the crowd and try to figure how many passengers are armed, and after that, which ones. it’s much easier to take control of a flight full of unarmed folks than do it while worrying about getting your head blown off.

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:44am

      The anti-gun nuts would have a snit over that one. They wouldn’t be so afraid though if they realized that you are safer around a good guy with a gun then you are around a bad guy claiming he is unarmed.

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    • dablooz
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 12:05pm

      If they knew the truth, they’d change their minds, …but, when has the truth mattered to anti-gunners? They could be pro-choice and choose not to fly. I think the next time I fly, I’m going to request my pat-down agent. If none of the gals they have on duty fit certain ethnic and aesthetic requirements, I‘m going to file a complaint that they don’t have a “diverse” enough pool of employees. My religion will not permit me to be patted down by men or ugly women.

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    • chazman
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 7:51pm

      Ya wanna learn how to profile talk to Israel… Napolitano … you insufferable TWERP!!!!! It’s better than trying to grope my JUNK! I will KICK YER FACE IN!!!

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  • Ronko
    Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:04am

    I don‘t care what they say these new security measures are not needed if the Govt would do its job and kick Al Quidas ass instead of wasting time nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan we would be a lot safer and we wouldn’t need to worry about home grown terrorists getting brainwashed by Radical Islam.

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    • sweetbees
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:16am

      Everyone needs to wear Burkas and you won’t have to be patted down below the neck!!! http://www.chandlerswatch.com/2010/11/13/muslim-women-soon-to-be-exempt-from-tsa-invasive-screenings-look-for-muslim-men-to-follow/ Screw political correctness!! They have more rights than WE do!!!

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    • Anonimouse
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:17am

      Exactly Ronko! Our government refuses to secure our borders. When AZ tries to protect themselves, our gov. sues them! They choke on the word terrorism. They bend over backwards to placate every “agrieved” group except the law-abiding, tax-paying American citizen. They have no problem offending us or trampling our rights.

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:30am

      New choices for american travels – glow in the dark from the machinery, or get groped sexually in front of everyone and cannot have the perverts arrested. If you try to walk away, they threaten to have you arrested and bring a civil suit against you as well.

      Oh yes, now I really feel safe.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:34am

      All that was ever needed after 911 inside job, was to seal off the **** pit
      in every plane, thus preventing them from ever being used as a weapon.
      as for as the 300 passengers safety SO WHAT ! Do you realize a couple
      of guys with machine guns in a crowed mall during Black Fri could kill many
      more people. Yet I don’t think we all want naked body scanners at every store
      we shop. Wake up ! TSA and the Patriot act is worse than all the terror acts ever
      recorded combined.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:39am

      we sanction 1.3 million murders a year but are so afraid of dying on a plane
      that we stand NAKED and let strangers Fondle our genitalia notice how close to
      Gentiles ???
      http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html
      Molech is the God of Abortion

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    • Promotefreedom
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:46am

      These measures are not needed. This is ONLY about government control. They are conditioning us to accept having no personal freedom. Conditioning us for the upcoming military state.

      ALSO: Machine purchases = profits for the “connected.” Massive increase in employment to run all this nonsense = UNION expansion and even more kickbacks.

      BTW: I have read in numerous places that these “naked” images from the scanners are being stored along with all your personal information on federal computers. This was leaked by insiders not very long ago.

      Why? I’m sure THAT will come to light after millions of photos are stored, and it is too late.

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:41am

      TOWER7FEMACAMP you have some serious issues, go take a nap or eat a cookie or something.

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    • valricoslash
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 12:54pm

      Just profile the rag heads.

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    • free2bme1961
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 12:56pm

      Losing my rights, and being treated like a terrorist, to catch a terrorist? Sorry, but I’d rather see the actual perpetraters, that have caused the terror exposed. Excessive radiation and perverse groping, should not have to be the only alternative, to prevent future attacks!

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    • valricoslash
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 12:59pm

      Profile, porfile,profile. No muslim regardlessof colr age, or sex is exempt from the search. Maybe then they will police their won people. It does no good to put granny through the naked machine or grope a 6-year old boy or girl. They are not the problem. The problem is squarely in the court of the muslims. If they don’t like the extra attention let them return back to the land of 6th century laws that they came from..

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    • Juan Gault
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 1:35pm

      Why not put an armed Marshal on every flight, as a security measure. Eliminate the airport security,lock the pilots doors.

      Shoot to kill, anyone attempting to interfere with the flight.

      Problem of air port security solved! Wait, that’s to simple, hmmmmmmmm.

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    • jzs
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 3:15pm

      Without body scans or pat-downs, how do you stop some someone with plastic explosives from getting on a plane and blowing it up?

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 3:50pm

      To provide proper security, you set up security standards the same way the professional experts do…Israel experts, that is…they have been doing this kind of security for a long time (with no go—, pe—,va—- or br— checks) and they have had great success. TSA is a rank amateur. Profile, you dumb asses.

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    • Fear The Voices
      Posted on November 15, 2010 at 5:00pm

      There’s more reason why these are being deployed at every airport. It has more to do than security; they are trying to condition us for more of the same.
      Furthermore, it’s now been reported that the evil George Sorass is again profiting again at our expense, read it hear:

      http://homelandsecurityus.com/

      Perhaps this is the reason they are making it a bit more unpleasant to opt out of the scanners.

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