Full Frontal Nudity Doesn't Make Us Safer: Abolish the TSA

Full Frontal Nudity Doesn't Make Us Safer: Abolish the TSA
© Getty Images The Republicans control the House of Representatives and are bracing for a long battle over the President's Health Care proposal. In the spirit of Bipartisanship and sanity, I propose that the first thing on the chopping block should be an ineffective organization that wastes money, violates our rights, and encourages us to make decisions that imperil our safety. I'm talking about the Transportation Security Administration. Bipartisan support should be immediate. For fisca...

Full Frontal Nudity Doesn't Make Us Safer: Abolish the TSA
© Getty Images The Republicans control the House of Representatives and are bracing for a long battle over the President's Health Care proposal. In the spirit of Bipartisanship and sanity, I propose that the first thing on the chopping block should be an ineffective organization that wastes money, violates our rights, and encourages us to make decisions that imperil our safety. I'm talking about the Transportation Security Administration. Bipartisan support should be immediate. For fisca...

Finally: The dont touch my junk guy speaks
If you don’t know who he is — and given the immense outcry online, I can’t believe anyone doesn’t — the AP’s got you covered. Two clips here, one of the man himself and the other of Shep Smith in high dudgeon, but perhaps it’s time to think less about alternate procedures and more about … big-picture solutions. The Republicans control the House of Representatives and are bracing for a long battle over the President’s Health Care proposal. In th...

Full Frontal Nudity Doesn't Make Us Safer: Abolish the TSA
The Republicans control the House of Representatives and are bracing for a long battle over the President's Health Care proposal.  In the spirit of Bipartisanship and sanity, I propose that the first thing on the chopping block should be an ineffective organization that wastes money, violates our rights, and encourages us to make decisions that imperil our safety.  I'm talking about the Transportation Security Administration. Bipartisan support should be immediate.  For Fiscal con...

For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance - Jeffrey Goldberg - National - The Atlantic
This past Wednesday, I showed up at Baltimore-Washington International for a flight to Providence, R.I. I had a choice of two TSA screening checkpoints. I picked mine based on the number of people waiting in line, not because I am impatient, but because the coiled, closely packed lines at TSA screening sites are the most dangerous places in airports, completely unprotected from a Terrorist Attack -- a Terrorist Attack that would serve the same purpose (shutting down Air Travel) as an Attack on...

Were not gonna take it! Anger intensifies over new TSA screening procedures (Daily Caller)
There is a revolt going on in America — and the Tea Party has nothing to do with it. As the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) ramps up its invasive practices in the name of “safety,” more and more Americans are looking at one another and asking just when it was that they signed up to be groped, manhandled, and generally humiliated merely to hop a plane to Ft. Lauderdale for Aunt McGarity’s 70th birthday. After several recent attempted Terrorist Attacks, the T...

We're not gonna take it! Anger intensifies over new TSA screening procedures
There is a revolt going on in America — and the Tea Party has nothing to do with it. As the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) ramps up its invasive practices in the name of “safety,” more and more Americans are looking at one another and asking just when it was that they signed up to be groped, manhandled, and generally humiliated merely to hop a plane to Ft. Lauderdale for Aunt McGarity’s 70th birthday. After several recent attempted Terrorist Attacks, the TSA...

Forbes Magazine Commentary: Abolish the TSA
Does running randomly selected people through a porno scanner (graphic image warning) that is graphic enough to show intimate piercings make us safe? Does groping randomly selected three year old Children make us safe? No, not according to a top Israeli Airport Security expert. Does anyone think a fanatic who would blow themselves up or plant a bomb on their three year old would be deterred by a 20% chance of being randomly selected for a porno scan or groping? This is just Security theater to m...

Airlines
How many Air trips, if any, have you taken on a Commercial Airliner in the past 12 months -- counting each round trip as one trip? In a typical year, approximately how many Air trips would you say you take -- counting each round trip as one trip? [OPEN-ENDED] (Asked of those who Travel by air) Based on your own experience, compared to a year ago, do you think it is now -- [ROTATED: more expensive to fly, about the same, (or) less expensive to fly? As you may know, the price of Air Travel is expe...

Just Stay Home
The trade association of U.S. Airlines -- the Air Transport Association -- says that it expects that about 24 million Americans will take to the air over the Thanksgiving holiday. That would be about 3 percent more air travelers than flew last Thanksgiving. I hope they are wrong. Travelers should drive, take the train, bicycle, walk or just stay home. Just don't fly. If we stay on the ground, the message may finally get through to our government: stop harassing us and concentrate on finding th...

TSA's new pat-down techniques not popular with LAX travelers
Hugo Perez doesn't like the idea of possibly exposing sensitive areas to a full-body Scanner at Los Angeles International Airport. But the notion of getting frisked by a Security screener using his palms, rather than the backs of his hands, irks Perez even more. "It sounds like they're going to treat us like we're being arrested or something," the Silver Lake resident said before boarding a flight from LAX to celebrate Halloween festivities in San Francisco this weekend. "I don't want to go t...

Invasion of the Body Scanners: why airport security will never work
I’ve been seeing a lot of frustration and anger at the new Security measures going into effect in Airports (especially from pilots). One issue is the new millimeter ‘backscatter’ x-ray machines. Previously, only your carryon bags were x-rayed, now they are x-raying your entire Body. And since these new machines penetrate clothing, but stop at your skin, they show the TSA workers an image of you essentially naked. If you don’t like the idea of being exposed to dangerous x-...

Invasion of the Body Scanners: why airport security will never work
I’ve been seeing a lot of frustration and anger at the new Security measures going into effect in Airports (especially from pilots). One issue is the new millimeter ‘backscatter’ x-ray machines. Previously, only your carryon bags were x-rayed, now they are x-raying your entire Body. And since these new machines penetrate clothing, but stop at your skin, they show the TSA workers an image of you essentially naked. If you don’t like the idea of being exposed to dangerous x-...

Scanners and pat-downs upset airline passengers
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nearly a week before the Thanksgiving holiday Air Travel crush, federal Air Security officials struggled Monday to reassure rising numbers of fliers and airline workers outraged by new anti-terrorism screening procedures they consider invasive and harmful. Across the country, passengers simmered over being forced to choose scans by full-body image detectors or probing pat-downs. Top federal Security officials said that the procedures were safe and necessary sacrifices to ward ...

Pilots among those dismayed at scanners, pat-downs
CHICAGO — Airport Security stops one airline pilot because he’s carrying a butter knife. Elsewhere, crews opt for pat-down searches because they fear low-level radiation from Body Scanners could be harmful. And in San Diego, one traveler is told he can’t fly at all when he likens an intrusive Body search to Sexual Harassment. Annoyance at Security hassles has been on the rise among airline crews and passengers for years, but the widespread use of full-body Image detectors this ...

Pilots among those dismayed at scanners, pat-downs
CHICAGO (AP) — Airport Security stops one airline pilot because he’s carrying a butter knife. Elsewhere, crews opt for pat-down searches because they fear low-level radiation from Body Scanners could be harmful. And in San Diego, one traveler is told he can’t fly at all when he likens an intrusive Body search to Sexual Harassment. Annoyance at Security hassles has been on the rise among airline crews and passengers for years, but the widespread use of full-body Image detectors ...

Flyers urged to 'bite the bullet'
Instead of boycotting the Airlines, holiday travelers should suck it up and stop whining about X-rated Body scans and groping pat-downs, according to Terrorism experts and passengers at Logan International Airport who say deep frisk searches are just a fact of flying life during the War on Terror. “You just have to bite the bullet,” said Andrew Thomas, a University of Akron Professor and an Airline Security expert. “The bad guys are just watching this unfold.” 11 — ...

Video: TSA body-searches a three-year-old girl
I fly on a fairly regular basis, and usually have no trouble at all going through Security at the Airports. Even when I’ve been flagged for closer inspection occasionally, TSA agents have always been professional and even friendly about it. That’s probably because I’m old enough to understand the issues involved, and I deliberately get to the airport early enough not to stress about delays at security. But what happens when a three-year-old girl gets upset at having to give u...

TSA scans and pat downs continue to generate backlash (Video)
Following the 9-11 terror Attacks nearly every American was willing to sacrifice some freedom for more Security.  Over the last nine years the government has been more than willing to engage in the transaction, as a series of laws, regulations, and executive actions were implemented in order to theoretically make the homeland more secure.  However at some time the American public was going to have enough of this pattern, and that time may now have come with the new TSA (Transportation ...

Revolt against TSA: Ban the body scanner?
A groundswell of anger has rippled through the nation's airports: People are not happy about the Body Scanner security systems. While The Post's Andrea Sachs did not find the procedure too invasive when she tested the new technology ("I found it comforting to know that the Body Scanner would uncover items missed by older equipment and that we travelers have one more layer of protection against those exceedingly crafty Terrorists."), other people have not been so happy with the experience. Some...

FLASHBACK: Airport screeners get more aggressive with pat-downs
© Tom Dillon/USA Today Washington - The government's aggressive new pat-down searches at airports are raising Privacy concerns and dividing frequent fliers. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security screeners last week began more aggressively patting down airline passengers as a matter of policy across the country. The agency calls it one of its several layers of security to keep travelers safe. "Pat downs are one important tool to help TSA detect hidden and dangerous items ...

Libertarians oppose abusive TSA strip-search machines
WASHINGTON - Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle commented today on the Transportation Security Administration's use of Strip-search machines at airports. Hinkle said, "The TSA should end the Strip-search machine program immediately. "We've reached a point where our Government has no qualms about humiliating us. "Everyone who cares about Civil Liberties should be outraged that the Obama Administration has shown no respect for travelers' Privacy or their right to be free from unrea...

For TSA, Irresponsibility is Job One
“On the eve of a major National holiday and less than one year after al Qaida’s failed attack last Christmas Day,” writes Transportation Security Administration head John Pistole (in response to “Protests Mount Over Safety And Privacy Of Airport Scanners,” National Public Radio, Nov. 12), “it is irresponsible for a group to suggest travelers opt out of the very screening that could prevent an attack using non-metallic explosives.” The group in question is actua...

Amid airport anger, GOP takes aim at screening
TSA Transportation Security Officers, in blue uniforms, screen airline passenger as they check-in at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport, Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. U.S. officials are defending new anti-terrorism Security procedures at the nation's Airports that some travelers complain are overly invasive and intimate. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) Did you know that the nation's Airports are not required to have Transportation Security Administration screeners checking passengers at Security ch...

TSA procedures under attack
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a week before the Thanksgiving travel crush, Federal air Security officials were struggling to reassure rising numbers of fliers and airline workers outraged by new anti-terrorism screening procedures they consider invasive and harmful. Across the country, passengers simmered over being forced to choose scans by full-body Image detectors or probing pat-downs. Top Federal Security officials said Monday that the procedures were safe and necessary sacrifices to ward ...