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Is that your retort?
Yes. That is correct.
Is that your retort?
Yes. As per procedure. As zyphillin said, it's OK to profile Arabs (which again wouldn't be a good way to secure an airport) but it's not OK to search white women and kids. Keep on truckin' GOP!
Call me a realist, but when women and kids start blowing themselves up as suicide bombers, I'll be first in line to make sure they're profiled too.
Call me a realist, but when women and kids start blowing themselves up as suicide bombers, I'll be first in line to make sure they're profiled too.
Going one further...when has that even HAPPENED on a flight originating in the US?
Im all for the XRay machines. they are pretty fast and Im anything but self conscious about what my sillouete is going to present on an XRay. Make sure the machines dont have hard drives (and it's proven that they do) and put the screener in a concealed location...and I cant see how anyone could even care.
They already are. People in this thread or the other TSA thread have linked to cases of 8 year old suicide bombers. If you start profiling one group, and ignoring the rest, terrorists will just use another group. It's not that hard. There are white radicalized Muslims as well mind you.
It has helped. You just don't know what they have found. TSA has commented numerous times on people asking what they have caught and they have not shared because it is infact a matter of national security and not something that can be shared. If they go out and start sharing what methods they have used to find certain devices/compounds/terror suspects, then that's not going to be quite productive, is it? TSA also stops people who are on the TSC's list all the time. The media calls it the "No fly list".