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Good grief. It's astonishing that people are being treated this way in this country.
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I was subjected to search so invasive that I was left crying and dealing with memories that I thought had been dealt with years ago of prior sexual assualts. Why? Because of my flannel panty-liner. These new scans are so horrible that if you are wearing something unusual then you will be subjected to a search where a woman repeatedly has to check your "groin" while another woman watches on (two in my case - they were training in a new girl - awesome). So please, please, tell the ladies not to wear their liners at the airport
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Every time we hear one of these stories, John Pistole runs for the cameras and reassures us that this isn't what is supposed to happen; that no one should be treated in this fashion or made to cry; that it shouldn't be regarded as a common occurrence or used as the basis to judge the whole program or the TSA; that they listen and are always adjusting their policy, and that--most importantly to him--we all must put up with these "enhanced searches" to keep terrorists from bringing down airplanes. And then it happens again. Each time, he circles back around to tough-talking bluster with that asinine, barely-disguised "everyone's a perp" mentality.

Does John Pistole strike you as a little psycho at this point?
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"We need to see your vagina clearly."

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Originally posted by Dirigo Maine-iac:
Oh Zorro, stop complaining. You thought the TSA and the Patriot Act were perfectly fine and accused everyone who questioned it as socialists, commies, Un-American, etc.

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Life is not supposed to be fair

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Lefty's: You should turn off fox news, it's not good for you

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Originally posted by Florida Righty:

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Lefty's: You should turn off fox news, it's not good for you

And switch to MSNBC where they are endorsing the violent overthrow of the government if the left doesn't get it's way.

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Originally posted by Florida Righty:

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Lefty's: You should turn off fox news, it's not good for you

And switch to MSNBC where they are endorsing the violent overthrow of the government if the left doesn't get it's way.

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Originally posted by Jkat:

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Originally posted by Florida Righty:

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Lefty's: You should turn off fox news, it's not good for you

And switch to MSNBC where they are endorsing the violent overthrow of the government if the left doesn't get it's way.

link??

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And switch to MSNBC where they are endorsing the violent overthrow of the government if the left doesn't get it's way.

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This is the right you're talking about, you apparent maroon

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you apparent maroon

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I don’t know what the term is in Austrian for that…

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Originally posted by Lynn Dee:
Charlie is just dying to slip his hairless white balls into Obama's big warm hands.

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That's pretty offensive.

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Originally posted by Lynn Dee:

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That's pretty offensive.

Isn't it? I plead guilty with an explanation: A week's worth of "Obama's hand in your crotch" posts drove me to it.

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Next you'll be talking about tampon bombs.

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very cheesy .. very cheesy indeed ...

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About as cheesy as those who opposed the Patriot Act on privacy grounds are now championing crotch gropings.

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Israel has long held the reputation as home to the world's most stringent airport-security procedures. But most passengers aren't frisked, there are no intimately revealing body-imaging scanners, and security experts dismiss as misguided the new, more intrusive American approach that requires pat-downs or highly detailed scans of every passenger.

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"Taking the bottle of water from the 87-year old-woman at JFK, you will never find an explosive material that is coming from Bin Laden,'' said Shlomo Harnoy, head of the Sdema Group, an Israeli security consultancy that advises airports abroad. "You are concentrating on the wrong thing.''

Israel's approach allows most travelers to pass through airport security with relative ease. But Israeli personnel do single out small numbers of passengers for extensive searches and screening, based on profiling methods that have so far been rejected in the United States, subjecting Arabs and, in some cases, other foreign nationals to an extensive screening...

One reason we use such ham handed methods is the relative inexpensiveness of the system and the large supply of low skilled workers it takes to run it. Hiring tens of thousands of highly trained and educated profilers isn't going to be cheap or easy.

Overall though, it's good that we are at least beginning to have a discussion about this and not simply accepting the government's, "this is the way it's going to be" approach. Maybe we can't have the Israeli system but perhaps there something between that and the idiocy we are going through now.

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Originally posted by Lynn Dee:
Charlie is just dying to slip his hairless white balls into Obama's big warm hands.