If you know perfectly well that every airport would rather turn the scanners off (don’t think the airport managers and airline agents are getting an earful?) and that the only reason the scanners are still on is nobody can buck the TSA (and .. the only option the airports have is to hire Wackenhut or equivalent to do .. what the TSA says to do…) then yes, a memo saying “turn ‘em off if you want” is coordination.

Mew

We do not have the technology to scan for dangerous devices.

We have the technology to scan for metals. We can use dogs or less accurate sniffers to scan for certain chemicals. None of this scans for “dangerous devices”, merely for metals and certain chemicals.

Further, a little data mining (knowing who is flying) and observing their behaviour while they wait in line (nervous? twitchy?) would yield a much higher success rate – but also carries some privacy invasion and will likely result in lawsuits claiming discrimination. (CAIR are big believers in lawfare, eh?)

Fortunately, none of the above matters because the current TSA security is hardly good security – if ramp workers aren’t checked before they board airplanes with their toolboxes or cleaning supplies or whatever else they’re carrying on their persons, then what good is checking any passenger?

Mew

Trying to do scanning, or pat downs on one of the busiest travel holidays of the year would be very time consuming, if they had to put every flier through one or the other, but I understand there are only the randoms chosen, plus whoever sounded the alarm on the metal detectors. I don’t know how they go about choosing the randoms, but, the fact remains that some very sophisticated terrorists could get through, and on the plane, and do exactly what the TSA is saying they are trying to prevent.

From what I’ve read, the scanners cannot detect powders, liquids, thin plastic or anything buried within body cavities. As they’ve said, the shoe bomber made us take off our shoes, the fruit of the boom bomber caused crotch groping. God save us if someone succeeds in blowing something up that was hidden in a body cavity.

The whole thing is a bogus crisis manufactured by our Communist Regime in Washington. Each of the threats so far have been with flights that originated in other countries that have lax to little airport security. There are countries that hate the US, and, airport security wouldn’t even be a factor in those countries.

You are correct, production means volume, and we have some that are lining up to get on the line to government slavery, knowingly or not.

Truer words were never spoken.

What makes them think this won’t spread to “pat downs” at every state line? Then they will say – At least I can still walk…..

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/11/pdf/executive_orders.pdf

The Power of the President
Recommendations to Advance Progressive Change

The U.S. Constitution and the laws of our nation grant the president significant authority to make and implement policy. These authorities can be used to ensure positive progress on many of the key issues facing the country through:

• Executive orders
• Rulemaking
• Agency management
• Convening and creating public-private partnerships
• Commanding the armed forces
• Diplomacy

Here is a list of a few things that caught my eye:

• Conserve federal lands for future generations.
• Partner with the private sector in health care payment reform.
• Focus on health care prevention in implementing the Affordable Care Act.
• Streamline and simplify access to federal antipoverty programs.
• Replace costly, inhumane immigration detention policies with equally effective measures.
• Collect data on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans in federal data surveys.
• Use executive branch authority to mitigate the impact of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy if Congress does not repeal it.
• Redouble support for Palestinian state- and institution-building efforts.
• Reinvigorate the U.S.-Turkey strategic alliance.
• The Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service now has a freeze on financing new coal-fired power plants, a policy that should be extended to include no longer agreeing to debt restructurings that allow for the construction of new coal-fired generation—even if that generation will be paid for with non-
RUS financing.

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Read this document – this is Obama’s roadmap for his 2012 election effort.

That the government shut down some websites that supposedly were selling faux designer purses, and were providing music downloads. You’re correct, I thought this wasn’t a done deal yet with the FCC.

The radio talk host brought up the fact that there are websites that are recruiting terrorists, but, the government won’t touch them because they have free speech rights. It may be that the sting operation in Portland OR, that took place yesterday, with a Somali trying to blow the town square up on Thanksgiving, may have been by intercepting him through a faux terrorist website, but I’m sure there are others that are for real.

As to the TSA, I’ve wondered also if this wasn’t a “test” to see how many sheep would submit themselves to government slavery. It almost seems like a no win situation. If people refuse to fly, then the airlines go broke, and the government takes them and the airports over. If people can’t get on a plane without being scanned or probed, they can’t fly, and, if they refuse, they can’t even opt out at that point without fines and civil penalties.

N/T

Implement a National Security “WarZone” in & around all airports whereby all Constitutional Rights are Waived allowing for random, specific, and selective searches to take place without any legal consequences or repercussions.. If a person looks suspicious, you pull them out of the Line for a Full search, with no such charge of profiling being levied.. This is War policy in a War Zone.. This NSWZ should be implemented around and on any Public transport medium that handles or carries more than, say 10 people…

Profiling is a common-sense step used by law enforcemnt agencies every day to limit their pool of suspects, so that limited resources can be concentrated where they’ll do the most good. But liberals have succeeded in demonizing common sense, so that now “profiling” is equivalent to “racism” to many Americans.

Promote the use of the alternate term “risk assessment.” It’s more to the point, and harder to argue against.