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Texas Government, Threatened by TSA, Backs Down
...House members quickly informed the shouting group that it was the Senate that had failed to take action late Tuesday on House Bill 1937, which would have made it a crime for security checkpoint screeners to handle the private parts of anyone they screened... (www.statesman.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Thank you, Mark. C-4 can be molded into any shape or size. Pretty scary. It can look like play-doh or stick deodorant. Terrorists are very creative. And profiling is considered discriminatory, but there are cameras every where, and there are Behavior Detection Officers in plain clothes and also uniformed that are expert in observing behavior patterns of criminals. TSA is alot smarter than people think, but it's an expensive process and is always under some kind of scrutiny. I am supportive of DHS because I know the safety that they ultimately and truly provide. Glad you flight was safe.
c4 is c4 no matter what i would rather go thru the pat down then to get on the plane and blow it up in mid air. my wife uses a walker and she opted for the patdown and nothing was done wrong as the tsa people were curtious and she was able to make it thru before the rest of us
... which will likely not improve the odds of finding sharpened credit cards at all. But I don't want to make this about sharpened credit cards. The point is, the terrorists seem to use places and methods that are not affected by extant screening. Every time screening techniques are changed, it is in reaction to the terrorists. Screening for things doesn't help. They should be profiling people.
You have to empty all of your pockets before a pat down.
Pat downs will not find sharpened credit cards.
You are right. There are silicone and titanium knives that pass through the metal detector without alarming. Hence, the pat downs or full body imaging to find these potential threats, and they do.
Luckily the military has covered for the TSA and ensured the saftey of the American public. Obama is expected to announce the gradual dissovlement of the TSA over the next six months.