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Security Checkpoints Predict What You Will Do
An anonymous reader writes "New security check points in 2020 will look just like something out of the futuristic movie, The Minority Report. The idea of the new checkpoints will allow high traffic to pass through just as you were walking at a normal pace. No more waving a wand to get through checkpoints — the new checkpoint can detect if you have plans to set off a bomb before you even enter the building."
Seriously - what goals do airport security checkpoins have?
Screen passengers and their baggage for protection against any threats against the aircraft from the inside, that is passenger and cargo compartments - and be effective, efficient, speedy and cheap, in that order.
99 percent of any and all past and present attacks against airline travel perpetrated - through passengers or baggage! - were committed by people who a) claimed they were doing it for Islam and b) who have declared as being of Muslim faith.
All "airline terrorists" - against which airport security can provide any protection - are a proper subset of "People is Muslim faith".
Therefore, it is not only logical to exclude non-Muslims from security checks but beneficial, as it wastes less resources and security staff to search improbable suspects.
Because the result of this logical reasoning is entirely un-PC and doubleplusungood, I could've very well just said "show me one non-Muslim passenger with a bomb and then we'll talk". But that wouldn't have made so much fun doing it, I admit. But I'm preaching to the choir here, as all un-PC-thinking people already know this and all strictly PC people have stopped reading in the second sentence and will never take any logic into account anyway.
Now if you had argued that it's impossible to IDENTIFY passengers of Muslim faith, well that's the reason we're searching everyone equally right now. Oh, and we're not trying to hurt Muslims feelings, of course.
It seems to me that the people that bitch the loudest about illegal search and seizure are people who desire to break the law if they wish and don't want to get caught - do you REALLY care if some TSA agent goes through your dirty underwear and socks, I find it satisfying, especially if its been a long trip and the cloths are really smelly...Hell, Ive thought about carrying a really huge dildo in my luggage just for the entertainment value
women think?
I call BS on that!
Interesting link, thank you. Although the incident is 30 years past, it's nevertheless good to know that there really were non-Muslim airline bombers.
With a ratio of 1:400 including incidents from 30 years ago were looking at a pretty distinct group where airline terrorists come from, but still.