TSA authorities can fine you $10,000 for leaving the airport

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Fuck who? TSA won't care.

Actually, I said that kinda wrong. Ima try that again:

I have previously made the personal decision that I have taken my last airplane flight already, so, fuck 'em.

I know they still won't care, but, fuck 'em anyway.




Heheh, I said 'butfuck'.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

So the American public is going to buy into these scanners, eventually at court houses and government buildings, and sporting events and schools ?

The scanner at the courthouse is a different critter than the airport scanner, with much lower resolution. It doesn't show the naughty bits like it's big brethren.

[Lamplighter]

Not yet, but coming to a neighborhood near you

[classicman]

Like this one?



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[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Personally I think the "bad guys" are being short-sighted. You could do just as much damage by blowing yourself up at a major sporting event or at the mall on a crowded weekend, and that sort of thing would have a much greater impact on our collective mental state, since it would convince us that it could happen to anyone anywhere, not just in heavily-controlled air travel. I'm honestly stunned that it hasn't happened yet.

Shhhhhhh! They ightmay be isteninglay

[classicman]

WARNING: Next post may be NSFW

[classicman]

Ok so there's this image making its rounds across the internet that has been presented as an actual scan from one of the airport body scanners now cropping up all over the globe in light of the recent staged terrorist incident. People in the truth and patriot communities have been using it as evidence that the scanners are more revealing than the mainstream media is telling us. While I have no doubt that the scanners are indeed more revealing than what the media is telling us, I've just learned this image is disinformation.
From Here:

[classicman]

Love the pose!

[glatt]

You can tape a ceramic/plastic knife to the soles of your feet and get through this machine undetected.

[Undertoad]

You can keister as much plastic explosive as the underwear bomber and get through this machine undetected.

You can also take off from any international airport, as both the shoe bomber and the underwear bomber did.

[xoxoxoBruce]

And so it goes...

The degradations of passing through full-body scanners that provide naked pictures of you to Transportation Security Administration agents may not mean that the terrorists have won -- but they do mark victories for a few politically connected high-tech companies and their revolving-door lobbyists.

Many experts and critics suspect that the full-body "naked scanners" recently deployed at U.S. airports do little to make us more secure, and a lot to make us angry, embarrassed and late. For instance, the scanners can't see through skin, and so weapons or explosives can be hidden safely in body cavities.

But this is government we're talking about. A program or product doesn't need to be effective, it only needs to have a good lobby. And the naked-scanner lobby is small but well-connected.

link

[classicman]

...and the other shoe falls ... AGAIN.
Ya think we'd get tired of this shit and do something about it.

[Sundae]

If it's ineffective it will be dropped.
I'm not really fussed if someone gets to check my naked body. They'll see so many a day it'll be as exciting to them as it is to a doctor. Skin is skin - I wouldn't walk naked down the High Stree - and no-one would want me to - but I wouldn't feel violated by this any more than an X-Ray (suggested as two polar opposites).

I think it's sad that in the UK and the US (and probably eslewhere, I just don't know enough to comment) short-term knee-jerk reactions are all. Spend millions on detection, cut spending on prevention. But of course in both countries there's teh cry of, "Why should we help him? I didn't get that!"
Whichever progressive programme it refers to. People with a little bit more always resent those with less who get help. The response is always, "If I didn't work/ was a Muslim/ was black/ was an immigranthad too many kids/ didn't get married/ didn't have a car/ wasn't an addict [etc etc] I'd be much better off."

Put the money into proper schemes to integrate.
They might not work completely, but they are less invasive. And after all, this alienates far more people.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The terrorists that want to blow up planes, are a tiny minority of extremists. "Cut spending on prevention"? Not hardly, we're spending a fortune on prevention in Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

[Sheldonrs]

I'm flying to NJ next Tuesday. I'm hoping for a pat down and I plan on asking for a happy ending.