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Refuses pat down after setting off alarm at airport. Why?

It's true! Cue follow-up headline, "Eugene Delqaudio Gay Sex Scandal", in 3-2-....

I'm thinking some manner of gigantic penile prosthesis that will show up on their scanners and force them to pat it down? I mean, this new policy is an absolute disgrace and, until smacked down by the courts, deserves the full force of mockery and social rejection that the public can foist upon it.

So, I am seeing a lot of protests and complaints about the new TSA procedures. I really want to enter the debate, but I need to back up and get some basic things explained to me? Why do people feel this is wrong? I simply have no empathy for the people complaining. Not by choice. I just have...

YEAH LETS FIGHT AL QAEDA THIS IS HOW WE DO IT!!! skkCpnCm7iM

Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, the former governor of Minnesota and host of the popular TruTV show, Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, announced he will no longer use commercial airlines due to the egregious abuses of the TSA and the government. Ventura said he made the decision to...

Interesting article from a Canadian site, on how Israel handles airport security with multiple layers: stopping people before they even get to the airport, behavioural profiling, in short looking for the terrorists not the guns. The comments section highlight potential cons as well: the...

http://johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/11/these-events-took-place-roughly-between.html "He said that once I start the screening in the secure area, I could not leave until it was completed. Having left the area, he stated, I would be subject to a civil suit and a $10,000 fine. I asked him if he...

Security theater once again gone too far: http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1289237893803.shtm

The new TSA scanners are able to effectively photograph people naked. Our friends in UK were so offended by the proposition of photographing their children naked that they forced legislation making anyone under the age of 18 exempt from these new "nude scanners". In the USA, those who opt-out...

Every time I see the TSA in the news, they are implementing some offensive new security measure and angrying up my blood. So, in the interest of balancing out my own anti-TSA bias, can anyone share any stories wherein the TSA has saved the day? Has the TSA ever caught a mad bomber red-handed...

I got to go through their newfangled million dollar body scanner thingy, and yet they did not notice the water bottle in my back-pack. waz up wit dat???? :confused:

According to this story the US Air Marshal program costs over US$800m per years and makes, on average, slightly over four arrests per year. http://duncan.house.gov/2009/06/22062009.shtml I think the fact that more Marshals get arrested than make arrests is not in itself significant, except to...

TSA unveils new security procedures I tend to support this move. New in-flight security procedures and a change in attitude among passengers probably merits shifting focus from small (but potentially dangerous) items to the larger threats. The largest 9-11 family advocacy group opposes this...

The complaints I hear, not only from Mr. Randi but many others, on the subject of airport security, baffle me. Mr. Randi says he was told his batteries were" "Not allowed," he told me. I asked why. "It's on the list," he shrugged. " What exactly do people expect from security personal? They...

Headline on the BBC today: Airport probe after terror arrest My favourite quote is: Yet at Christmas time "Christmas Crackers" were considered a risk! So bullets don't pose a risk to an aircraft but Christmas crackers do - yep that makes sense to me. Once again it just goes to show that...

Do you want people to be able to see this when you go through the airport. I note they chose a women. BPesta, Shemp and Me could be pretty embarrassed when we go through the machine. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/06/26/seethru.security.ap/index.html