Don't touch his junk TSA

[Glocktogo]

Yes... that is correct... if that 14yr old or anyone else doesn't fit the profile of a young Muslim.

enhanced checks should be reserved for folks that fit a certain profile.
what TSA is doing doesn't work.... a determined terrorist can smuggle enough PETN in body cavities to blow up an airplane.

for that matter... a determined terrorist can smuggle enough PETN, complete with detonator to blow up an airplane inside checked in luggage.

the new rule not allow toners over 16oz is a joke... so what ... terrorist simply find another common container to hide PETN.

sorry ... with current technologies, it's impossible to find explosives with 100% certainty.

so far only two things work... profiling and reaction of airplane passengers to any threat. which by the way is exactly what Israel has be doing for years.

sorry but those that fit the profile of a terrorist.... they should be treated to a MUCH closer examination with their luggage hand searched.

there is NO way TSA can afford to spend the amount of time to properly search everyone. but they can afford to spend time for folks that fit the profile of a terrorist (young Muslim).

Care to share your background, experience and credentials for all these absolutes you're throwing around?

...many security experts have urged TSA to adopt techniques, used with great success by the Israeli airline El Al, in which passengers are observed, profiled, and most importantly, questioned before boarding planes. So TSA created a program known as SPOT -- Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques. It began hiring what it called behavior detection officers, who would be trained to notice passengers who acted suspiciously. TSA now employs about 3,000 behavior detection officers, stationed at about 160 airports across the country.

The problem is, they're doing it all wrong. A recent Government Accountability Office study found that TSA "deployed SPOT nationwide without first validating the scientific basis for identifying suspicious passengers in an airport environment." They haven't settled on the standards needed to stop bad actors.

"It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model," says Mica. "It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a *******ization of what should be done."

In a May 2010 letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Mica noted that the GAO "discovered that since the program's inception, at least 17 known terrorists ... have flown on 24 different occasions, passing through security at eight SPOT airports." One of those known terrorists was Faisal Shahzad, who made it past SPOT monitors onto a Dubai-bound plane at New York's JFK International Airport not long after trying to set off a car bomb in Times Square. Federal agents nabbed him just before departure.

Mica and other critics in Congress want to see quick and meaningful changes in the way TSA works. They go back to the days just after Sept. 11, when there was a hot debate about whether the new passenger-screening force would be federal employees, as most Democrats wanted, or private contractors, as most Republicans wanted. Democrats won and TSA has been growing ever since.


Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/po...#ixzz15XPcNqpD

Posting TSA talking points from Mica is about as meaningful as posting talking points about ethics from Charlie Rangel.

 

[nofearfactor]

Me and my kid,who is 14,talked about this this morning at breakfast before they left for school. I had been reading the posts here before they got up and when he came in he came over behind me and was reading them behind my back. He's flying to Washington D.C. over Xmas break and now he's scared theyre going to fondle his 'junk'. Lolllll. I told him not to worry,theyre only checking larger 'sacks' and he shouldnt have anything to worry about with his. Plus he's blonde haired and blue eyed and couldnt be mistaken for a terrorist mule if he tried,or any kind of threat.

Im a bad parent. My wife says I need to help build his self esteem and not break him down so much all the time, and I tell her that other people give their children too much of a false sense of well being. Thats the way my dad was why break the cycle...

 

[yukonjack]

I'm thinking TSA is just going to simplify the whole process.

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[Mr10mm]

Care to share your background, experience and credentials for all these absolutes you're throwing around?.

I am member of the fictional Counter Terrorist Unit aka Jack Bauer

 

[Mr10mm]

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/airpor...-travelers-prevent-terrorist/story?id=9476997

How can we stop this?

The story of an Irish woman several years ago who flew from London to Israel. She had fallen in love with a man, was pregnant with his baby and was flying there to meet his family. He packed her bags, including a gift for his family. Her suitcase cleared airport security without a problem, Yeffet said, but when El Al agents started to question her as part of their routine checks, something just didn't seem right.

Even though she had nothing to hide, they questioned the situation. An inspection of her luggage found 4 kilograms of explosives -- a bomb, planted by her lover, that airport security scanners had missed. She was so upset that this man would try to use her to kill everybody on the 747 that she gave the police all the information they needed to prosecute.

 

[Hipshot]

This just popped into my head, How about before going to the airport and getting searched you tank up on leftover Chili from the expo center and some broccoli and wash it down with a good ole mountain dew, Then while they are patting you down,leaning in cloce with their hands near your "junk" you can let them know what you had to eat a little earlier? I bet it would be a very quick pat down!! Might even keep the bomb sniffing dogs at bay!!

 

[HMFIC]

Maybe it's just me, but I can't stand the use of the term "junk" to refer to my handsomely stylish and stately male accoutrements.