[cologal]

Originally Posted by elevatorman

I was recently in Las Vegas and was asked to go through the full body scanner. They only asked a few people to do this. They asked me to remove evarything from my pockets and take off my belt I did. I forgot there was a hand wipe in one of those small sealed packet in my pocket. The machine saw it and the TSA man asked me to check my pockets again. I took out the wipe and then was told I had to have a search done by hand. It took a few seconds and was not intrusive. I went on my way. It was no big deal.

Was this since October 30th? If not then you didn't get the new enhance search.

[RichieLion]

Originally Posted by K9-Lovers

RichieLion, if you don't agree with these new security measures, do you have an alternate solution to offer?

I would do what the most successful country at thwarting terrorism has done. That country is Israel, and they have trained personnel stationed at their airport who observe each prospective passenger and question those who fit their profiling directives pertaining to their identity, their flying status, their suspiciousness, and other factors.

We have trained personnel to do similar things, but have deployed them incorrectly to just observe on the sidelines where they don't interact with fliers. A useless tactic. Israeli agents check you in, review your identification and papers and ask you questions. They have been very successful without utilizing the theatrics of our ridiculous tech prevalent system that treat every passenger as guilty until proven innocent.

I'm astonished at all the sheeple who blindly go along with the growing degradation of our freedoms and our dignity and the personal privacy of our bodies and our children's bodies for such a dubious result.

[cologal]

Originally Posted by RichieLion

I would do what the most successful country at thwarting terrorism has done. That country is Israel, and they have trained personnel stationed at their airport who observe each prospective passenger and question those who fit their profiling directives pertaining to their identity, their flying status, their suspiciousness, and other factors.

We have trained personnel to do similar things, but have deployed them incorrectly to just observe on the sidelines where they don't interact with fliers. A useless tactic. Israeli agents check you in, review your identification and papers and ask you questions. They have been very successful without utilizing the theatrics of our ridiculous tech prevalent system that treat every passenger as guilty until proven innocent.

I'm astonished at all the sheep who blindly go along with the growing degradation of our freedoms and our dignity and the personal privacy of our bodies and our children's bodies for such a dubious result.

I have flown in and out of Israel, they use a layered security approach. When I was leaving for home as I approached the metal detector I said I will set this off. The guy with me just smiled.....it did not go off as I went through. They have really good metal detectors with software which eliminates implants as a threat. No groping at that airport nor at the hospital in which I worked for 14 years....they have the very same metal detector in the ER and I don't set it off.

So here is a couple of questions for all of you safety first people....

Does the TSA screen cargo and packages on airplanes? Y/N
Does TSA screen mail on airplanes? Y/N
How many aircraft has Israel lost to a bomb? 0,1,2,3,4

I await your answers....

[Walt.]

Perhaps they are making the "pat down" so gross and unpleasant so that people will actually end up insisting on the full body scan.
The government could then just "give the people what they want."

[kentucky blue]

Originally Posted by elevatorman

I was recently in Las Vegas and was asked to go through the full body scanner. They only asked a few people to do this. They asked me to remove evarything from my pockets and take off my belt I did. I forgot there was a hand wipe in one of those small sealed packet in my pocket. The machine saw it and the TSA man asked me to check my pockets again. I took out the wipe and then was told I had to have a search done by hand. It took a few seconds and was not intrusive. I went on my way. It was no big deal.

I have to agree.After my annual physical and having a prostate exam each year, this was a piece of cake.It was less than no big deal, but i would have preferred Halle Berry as my TSA agent.