TSA defends pat-down of 4-year-old at Kan. airport (terror, bomb, graph)
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You're reverse profiling. Oh this small child and grandma look friendly they couldn't do anything. NY/Canada border patrol found cocaine shoved in the legs of an old womans walker.
Looks can be very deceiving.
We are talking about the threat of a person smuggling a bomb onto a plane, not drugs which would not put anyone on the plane in danger.
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Profiling is awful. While we all do it to a degree subconsciously, it's not good.
When you profile, you only target people who look/act/whatever a certain way.
Like all terrorist are muslim turban wearing people who don't wear normal clothes, well right there that's all you look for is "terrorist", when ANYONE could be a threat.
While I agree it sucks, if everyone is checked before flight, then I do feel slightly safer.
The poster who you are responding to was talking about how the Israeli's profile in order to combat air terror which has proven more effective then the TSA.
The fact that you "feel slightly safer" does not mean that you are any safer.
Don't they send these people through training on how to deal with small children?
Seriously, they way they are made out to be talking is as if they were talking to/about an adult.
WTH
What would you have done?
The Arabs will stop at nothing to blow up a plane. They have proven time and time again that they will blow themselves up, plant bombs on kids, their mothers or even an infant to blow things up. Since they will go to any length to blow things up, the TSA should go to any length to stop them. And the people complaining about the TSA doing what we pay them to do need to find another mode of transportation. Greyhound is ready when you are.
Just as an aside, the hijackers from 9/11 may not have had weapons at all...we really don't know. If they did, it may have been nothing more than a box cutter. They used the planes themselves as weapons. So there's no guarantee or even great likelihood that the TSA would have made a difference. Since 9/11 passengers have successfully carried box cutters onto planes.
Yes they may but would they would not be able to use them again. That is because the TSA, AGAINST the airlines wishes and the pilot union wishes, forced the airlines to install security doors to the cockpit and to keep them closed and locked while the plane is flying. The TSA is doing its job.
Don't they send these people through training on how to deal with small children?
Seriously, they way they are made out to be talking is as if they were talking to/about an adult.
WTH
What would you have done?
How far should the TSA go? About ten years into the past should be about right.
“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” Benjamin Franklin
Ben Franklin never was on an airplane. Some freedoms have to be given up so that a society can be government. People consent to be governed as a price for civil society. Part of that is, that if you wish to board an aircraft, you must be inspected. Sometimes it is not pleasent but it is necessary. If people do not want to be inspected, there are other modes of travel such as Greyhound, Magabus, Amtrac and the good old family car. But yes, I will give up a little freedom so that some religious fanatic doesn't blow me 30,000 feet out of the sky.
Does she look like a terrorist? No. Does she look like somebody a terrorist might plant a bomb on? Yes
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