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| 2005-08-14 | ||
The Transportation Security Administration will meet later this month to discuss the plan, which is designed to reduce checkpoint hassles for the nation's 2 million passengers. It comes after TSA's new head, Edmund S. ``Kip'' Hawley, called for a broad review in hopes of making airline screening more passenger-friendly. An initial set of staff recommendations drafted Aug. 5 also proposes that passengers no longer have to routinely remove their shoes during security checks. Instead, only passengers who set off metal detectors, are flagged by a computer screening system or look ``reasonably suspicious'' would be asked to do so, a TSA official said Saturday. Any of the changes proposed by the staff, which also would allow scissors, ice picks and bows and arrows on flights, would require Hawley's approval, this official said, requesting anonymity because there has been no final decision.
The Aug. 5 memo recommends reducing patdowns by giving screeners the discretion not to search those wearing tight-fitting clothes. It also suggests exempting several categories of passengers from screening, including federal judges, members of Congress, Cabinet members, state governors, high-ranking military officers and those with high-level security clearances. | ||
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #14 I can kill with a look. |
| Posted by: Major Houlihan 2005-08-14 17:54 |
| #13 Zpaz----You hit the nail on the head. One society's DSM IV Mark 1 psychopath is another society's normal dude. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-08-14 16:12 |
| #12 Incidently, the pregnant girl was carrying Hindawi's child. The report cites some psychologist as labeling Hindawi "psychopathic". What a hoot. You can tell this report was written in the naive days of 1999 before psychopathic behavior was realized - by Rantburgers at least - to be a norm in the Middle East. |
| Posted by: Zpaz 2005-08-14 12:50 |
| #11 no known islamic terrorist threat involving females on air transportation From a govrenment study: The Sociology and Psychology Of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why? "...in April 1986 Nezar Hindawi, a freelance Syrian-funded Jordanian terrorist and would-be agent of Syrian intelligence, sent his pregnant Irish girlfriend on an El Al flight to Israel, promising to meet her there to be married. Unknown to her, however, Hindawi had hidden a bomb (provided by the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)) in a false bottom to her hand luggage. His attempt to bomb the airliner in midair by duping his pregnant girlfriend was thwarted when the bomb was discovered by Heathrow security personnel." This is the reason the professional security outfits - the Israelis - look at profiles beyond the young male Arab profile. The Israelis don't just search people by the way, they interview people before flights looking for these sorts of connections. Profiling is useful, but there is more than one profile to look for. |
| Posted by: Zpaz 2005-08-14 12:40 |
| #10 real f*&king funny |
| Posted by: Leon Trotsky 2005-08-14 11:01 |
| #9 Ice picks? Who cares about ice picks? I need an ice pick like I need a hole in the head. |
| Posted by: Lev Bronstein 2005-08-14 10:51 |
| #8 I think the rational approach is that each passenger has the ability to be equally equiped. The unofficial SOP is Flight 93. The point is that no one or couple of passengers have better means to inflict injury or wounds than anyother. |
| Posted by: Elmavirong Greating7173 2005-08-14 10:03 |
| #7 badges, I don't need no stinkin' badges... but yes we need ice picks, lol |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-08-14 05:38 |
| #6 "high-level security clearances" How the hell are they supposed to know what clearances I have unless they learn how to read my facility badges, which differ depending on which agency controls the facility I happen to use that badge in. Other than that, I'm all for the "high security clearance" exemption. I figure with the invesigation, polygraph, etc - Im no threat to anyone on the aircraft except a terrorist, whose neck I will quickly break. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-08-14 03:38 |
| #5 The TSA has and never will have a clue. I cam kill with a pencil and one hundred other things, I don't need a knife. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-08-14 02:32 |
| #4 Sorry, Capsu78, but the gang o' idiots running Palestine have already convinced some of their stupider broads (yep, using that term because they don't deserve any respect at all IMHO) to load up on the explosives. |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2005-08-14 02:25 |
| #3 Personally, if there's trouble I'd just as soon myself and others have their trusty ol' pocketknives handy on any flight. Why disarm the general public when bad guys can sneak on a ceramic knife anytime they want? |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2005-08-14 02:24 |
| #2 It dawned on me today as I walked my daughter to the security line, in her flip flops, that we have no known islamic terrorist threat involving females on air transportation. Should we subtley ignore screening females to improve airport security cycle time, and see if the radical islamic assholes can bring themselves to not only involving "chicks" but training them too? Bet they can't do it! |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2005-08-14 02:10 |
| #1 I bet ol' Teddy Kennedy thinks the exceptions for members of Congress is good news (wasn't he supposedly on some no-fly list?). I'll just be happy when I can start wearing some other shoes besides flip-flops when I fly. |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2005-08-14 01:13 |