Is anyone flying....?

Richard Reid is white and black Jamaican. The underwear bomber is Nigerian. The 9/11 hijackers all dressed like westerners.

Lots of black muslims....[/quote]

How is the TSA supposed to screen black Muslims but not black Christians?

The 9-11 hi jackers were all saudis, hence all arab, who cares if they were dressed like westeners....

Harris is explicitly stating that the TSA should be concentrating most of their efforts on Muslim looking and dressed people and his point has merit.

Even Harris says that he should be searched well before an 80year with a walker and toddlers with blowpops.

Sure, but a mentally-infirm octogenarian actually is a security risk because they can't necessarily account for the security of their bags like Harris can. They ask you if anybody has been handling your bags when you check them because whoever handles them could plant explosives set to detonate in two hours. The girl with cerebral palsy who freaked when they inspected her crutches is also developmentally disabled. People treat that like it should somehow earn her a get-out-of-screening-free card, but that's actually a security risk.

If the TSA had a policy of not screening senile octogenarians with walkers then terrorists would find a way to pack a walker full of plastic explosives and pull a swap on some senile old lady before she entered the airport. You have to use your imagination because as we learned on 9/11, terrorists can be very imaginative.

18-month-old baby ordered off plane by TSA after being on "no-fly" list

The no-fly list is compiled by the FBI, not the TSA. The TSA just enforces it.

Richard Reid is white and black Jamaican. The underwear bomber is Nigerian. The 9/11 hijackers all dressed like westerners.

Lots of black muslims....

How is the TSA supposed to screen black Muslims but not black Christians?

The 9-11 hi jackers were all saudis, hence all arab, who cares if they were dressed like westeners....

Harris is explicitly stating that the TSA should be concentrating most of their efforts on Muslim looking and dressed people and his point has merit.

Even Harris says that he should be searched well before an 80year with a walker and toddlers with blowpops.

Sure, but a mentally-infirm octogenarian actually is a security risk because they can't necessarily account for the security of their bags like Harris can. They ask you if anybody has been handling your bags when you check them because whoever handles them could plant explosives set to detonate in two hours. The girl with cerebral palsy who freaked when they inspected her crutches is also developmentally disabled. People treat that like it should somehow earn her a get-out-of-screening-free card, but that's actually a security risk.

If the TSA had a policy of not screening senile octogenarians with walkers then terrorists would find a way to pack a walker full of plastic explosives and pull a swap on some senile old lady before she entered the airport. You have to use your imagination because as we learned on 9/11, terrorists can be very imaginative.[/quote]

You guys dont listen and twist the argument into the nonsensical as I have pointed out yet again, as is the custom here on TNL. I nor even Harris for that matter is advocating that there be a cease and desist of screening of handicaps medical assisting equipment, that would be absurd...ALL baggage and equipment like that must and should be screened. Where did i suggest otherwise?

The no-fly list is compiled by the FBI, not the TSA. The TSA just enforces it.

Yes, perhaps the baby was carrying an explosive diaper.

Henry Kissinger praises airport security agents for their ‘courtesy’ during his NY patdown

When former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger flies, he gets patted down by security agents just about every time.

The 88-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner was stopped again a few days ago as he passed security at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on his way to Toronto.


But the elder statesman released a statement Tuesday, saying it’s “not unusual” for him to be patted down during airport security screening. He says he wears a brace on his foot and can’t remove his shoes.

Flew out of Phoenix today. No body scanner machines were anywhere in sight...not turned off, they simply didn't have any. I went through a standard metal detector, no pat down necessary. In fact, nobody got a pat down for the 20 minutes I sat there with my Starbucks watching it all play out. It's amazing that anyone boarded their plane after such lackluster security measures. How can Phoenix keep anybody safe without body scanners and invasive pat downs?

Flew out of Phoenix today. No body scanner machines were anywhere in sight...not turned off, they simply didn't have any. I went through a standard metal detector, no pat down necessary. In fact, nobody got a pat down for the 20 minutes I sat there with my Starbucks watching it all play out. It's amazing that anyone boarded their plane after such lackluster security measures. How can Phoenix keep anybody safe without body scanners and invasive pat downs?

How many minorities did you see flying out of Phoenix, Arizona?

Phoenix has backscatter scanners in use at terminal 4.

That said, once again you tucked your tail between your legs and went through the oppressive TSA screening because you lack the integrity to stand by your convictions and refuse to submit. And, yet again, you found that all your whining was about a tiny fraction of a percent of the people inspected and that you had no problem.

I too flew again last week. I took the shuttle to NYC and back for business and didn't even get mildly groped.

i know its a bit off topic but speaking of the TSA... there is a gaming app on ios called airport scanner its hilarious.. you have to be the TSA agent and have to scan people's luggage looking for illegal stuff. sound effects are hilarious