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TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use
Jeffrey Goldberg writes for the Atlantic about his recent experiences with opting out of the back-scatter full-body scanners now being used to screen airport travelers. Passengers can choose to submit to a pat-down instead of going through the scanners, but according to one of the TSA employees Goldberg talked to, the rules for those are soon changing to make things more uncomfortable for opt-outs, while not doing much for actual security. He writes, 'The pat-down, while more effective than previous pat-downs, will not stop dedicated and clever terrorists from smuggling on board small weapons or explosives. When I served as a military policeman in an Israeli army prison, many of the prisoners 'bangled' contraband up their a**es. I know this not because I checked, but because eventually they told me this when I asked. ... the effectiveness of pat-downs does not matter very much, because the obvious goal of the TSA is to make the pat-down embarrassing enough for the average passenger that the vast majority of people will choose high-tech humiliation over the low-tech ball check."
Was anyone else completely unsurprised at the cargo place alerts just now?
One day we have a senior airline exec saying that this is ridiculous and the next daythings are 'found' that reminds us how much we need all this security.
Coincidnce? I don't think so!/p>
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
Or, we could recognize that Islam is fundamentally incompatible with Western values and start denying access to ports by Muslims. Nobody likes Muslims anyway. Dear Muslims: please undergo an enlightenment period. Your culture is a stale anachronism, and you're about 1000 years overdue for an enlightenment. When NASA's mission has been reduced to making you feel good about yourselves for stealing the alphabet from the Hindus, then you know you're a joke.
LOL, Faux News was linked as proof that a story is real.
National Enquirer gets more stories right than Faux News do.
And again the rest of the world finds it appalling you only have two parties to choose from.
Most of the rest of the world doesn't even have political parties, or if they do they're strictly for show, so that's a ridiculous comment on your part. Furthermore, what we're talking about here is institutionalized corruption, and if you're claiming that other countries don't have at least as much of that as we do (regardless of the quality or quantity of political parties), then you're full of little red ants.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
.. and this post and its score is a great example why debate is superfluous and we should just get down to killing as many as possible of those we hate instead.
Someone points out that you are wrong and you want to kill them. Welcome to being a Republican.