Assume the position: TSA begins new nut-busting pat-downs

[justmeinoz]

How do they deal with a nun? Could be tricky!

[lilacwoman]

news item an hour ago:  airport police stopped a guy because his luggage showed an object with battery, wires and switch connected to a fuse. 
was the guy doing a dry run and hoping that if caught he'd get away by not having anything for the fuse to activate?

I'll be happy to stand in front of the scanners while ever there are guys like that about.

[tekla]

was the guy doing a dry run

Yeah right.  Thoughts like that what causes police states.

[Amy1177]

My wife and I won't even consider flying commercial anymore.  Ultimate goal is to save up and get our own plane.  No security checks to get on a private plane at a private airfield.

[Dana Lane]

The terrorists have won.

[Amy1177]

That they have.  Unless is just another excuse by the government to add more control to our lives.

[tekla]

Well it's also blaming the flying public for what happened instead of asking some rather awkward questions of the government and exactly what's its doing with that huge defense budget, as it's sure not defending us.

[xxUltraModLadyxx]

this is so immoral and violating. personally, i would do the scan. what if you tuck before going into the airport? they won't be able to see any clitoris or labias that way, which could be an advantage. i would also wear a maxi pad to help keep it all in place. women need to wear those quite often, right?

[Ann Onymous]

this is so immoral and violating. personally, i would do the scan. what if you tuck before going into the airport? they won't be able to see any clitoris or labias that way, which could be an advantage. i would also wear a maxi pad to help keep it all in place. women need to wear those quite often, right?

Of course, with the pad in place, you can expect to get groped as soon as they finish having you scoped.  Pocket lint has been sufficient cause to grope after they finished irradiating the fares. 

Some airports still have a capacity for the informed passenger to self-select and get a good old-fashioned walk through metal detector and avoid the scope or grope. 

[Amy1177]

Sounds like a sex offender's fantasy job.

[Ann Onymous]

Sounds like a sex offender's fantasy job.

An opinion often voiced in the Travel Safety and Security forum over at FlyerTalk...if people want real stories of a potential for abuse by an arm of the US government, that would be a good starting place.  Some of the smurfs will appear to justify their jobs but they never can explain why their nonsense has yet to discover a single terrorist departing from the United States.   

[Amy1177]

I think it is just another way the government has figured out a way to further interfere with our lives and just keep that much more information on us in the name of "national security"  God forbid they actually put some of that ridiculous defense budget to something useful.

[tekla]

I took Amtrak to Reno and back this weekend.  Really, really pretty - Roseville to Reno is just awesome, one of the top 10 best rail trips in the world.  It was great.  No one cared about anything.  Can't really - unless your Steven Segal and there are extra special weapons aboard, and there weren't - do much with a train.  Can't evade much in a train when you think about it.  So at Amtrak they don't search my bags, they just pick them up and put them on the train like they are supposed to.  Seems so civilized.

[Joelene9]

Or maybe just a quick fingering of their rectum?

I was on the receiving end of that from a urologist to check the prostate.  Not pleasant.  Confirms that I am not gay!  I'm staying on the road this summer. 
  Joelene

[Cindy]

I took Amtrak to Reno and back this weekend.  Really, really pretty - Roseville to Reno is just awesome, one of the top 10 best rail trips in the world.  It was great.  No one cared about anything.  Can't really - unless your Steven Segal and there are extra special weapons aboard, and there weren't - do much with a train.  Can't evade much in a train when you think about it.  So at Amtrak they don't search my bags, they just pick them up and put them on the train like they are supposed to.  Seems so civilized.

Wasn't the new bin laden intelligence gathered at his 'retreat' suggesting he was planning to attack USA train networks? I think it's time for USA citizens to have full body searches before they even get on the subway. Remember the London Underground got bombed.  I think the better alternative is people should by law have to travel naked. This alleviates most of the problems.  It may also tackle the obesity crisis.  But it may lead to other problems;  naked persons obesity problem was found to be due to plastic explosive, artificial clitoris/penis was found to be the triggering mechanism. Evil terrorist plot suggested that sexual intercourse during travel would be explosive. In future all travelling public will be naked and in chastity devices. Works for me.

Sorry

Cindy

[V M]

Wasn't the new bin laden intelligence gathered at his 'retreat' suggesting he was planning to attack USA train networks? I think it's time for USA citizens to have full body searches before they even get on the subway. Remember the London Underground got bombed.  I think the better alternative is people should by law have to travel naked. This alleviates most of the problems.  It may also tackle the obesity crisis.  But it may lead to other problems;  naked persons obesity problem was found to be due to plastic explosive, artificial clitoris/penis was found to be the triggering mechanism. Evil terrorist plot suggested that sexual intercourse during travel would be explosive. In future all travelling public will be naked and in chastity devices. Works for me.

Sorry

Cindy

LOL 

But yes, the rail system was mentioned as a target

[justmeinoz]

According to the news reports they were looking at derailing the trains so that they crashed where they could do the most damage. Looks like everyone will have to submit to a search everytime they go to get into their car to beat that.

I'd go naked under a floor length leather coat!

[xxUltraModLadyxx]

i don't know if i should refuse to go through an airport again, or if i should try it and give a piece of my mind.

[tekla]

You derail a train from the outside, not the inside, and at that you'd want to derail some train filled with industrial chemicals in a populated area and not a bunch of drinking tourists.  With OBL dead a lot of the fever goes out of this, and lacking some other attack I think the whole homeland security thing stays pretty much as is.