The incompetence and hatred that this administration and his appointees have shown toward this country have no rival in the history of the country.

The TSA and their INCOMPETANO leadership could not be worse.

Chaulk this up to yet another poor (but planned) leadership and management selection by Obama.

Other than possibly the WH Easter Egg hunt, is there any selection for leadership or management of mission that Obama has done anything other than cause a dissaster with and drive the country into a DITCH (D for DEM)??

Great job Obama/Incompetano/Holder, you currently have your wish. American women, children, and Catholic Nuns are being fondled and groped by your TSA while Islamists walk right through check points and Border Agents are being prosecuted by the DOJ for upholding Federal Law.

Obama is not allowing anyone to identify the real problem – Islamic Extremism. For Obama, the only problem to the world is the United States.

To quote Rush, “Obama is the Grafitti of this chapter in American history.” I agree.

Janet Napolitano’s attitude is completely unacceptable and she should be summarily fired. *If* procedures like this are to be done, they must be undertaken with the utmost care and sensitivity. TSA’s regime-like, in-your-face response to legitimate concerns and fears confirms to me that if anyone should be in charge of enhanced airline security, its not Janet Napolitano or TSA.

“For the TSA to say that we need not fly if we don’t want to undergo personal humiliation …”
That kind of says it all doesn’t it? When the airlines begin to fail due to lack of customers then Obama can bail/buy them out and gain control of another segment of the economy.

I keep wondering why no one has the guts to just come out and admit that profiling like the Brits, Israel and I’m sure others do.

Last time I flew out of the UK a very nice young lady in a Police uniform interviewed me before even approaching the counter for ticketing. Simple questions, not very invasive but I’m sure that if I had met some profile, I’d be in the back room for a bit more of check. I’m not sure why TSA and Obama administration is so very afraid of the profiling, but it works much better than taking off my shoes, my belt, going thorough the microwave and all the rest of the Kabuki dance that TSA is selling now.

Profiling is not a dirty word.

It’s just about the only part of this she got right. I’d still like to hear her answer, though.

After that, I have a follow-up question for her as she’s weighed-in on openly-serving gays in the military.

http:/www.theday.com/article/20101021/NWS09/310219380

How about we don’t board Muslims from Yemen flying on a one way ticket . . . a guy whose father tried to warn us.

I swear if I didn’t know better these extreme measures are punishment to Americans who openly have little respect for Big Sis and just voted her pals out of office. OK, I’m kidding . . . mostly.

Profile the likely and keep your hands off my wife, daughters and grand kids.

If the problem is letting people travel in their own clothes, with their own stuff on their persons, why not just take this to the logical extreme?

You get to the airport, you drop trou – and everything else – and fly wearing airline-provided new-in-wrapper pair of tidy whities or grandma panties, and a terrycloth jumpsuit, and nothing else. At all. You specify a size, you get changed, you’re done. Airlines can sell advertising space on togs, as long as customers have an option to choose a different advertiser.

Exemptions for the incontinent, they can put on a fresh .. diaper.

When we the passengers go through airport security, we go into changing rooms, put our street clothes in numbered bags and then get into our airline-issue travel togs. Our numbered bags get checked at the gate.

Someone from TSA might be watching, but they also might not. No less invasive than the mirrors in some stores at the local shopping mall. One key here – nothing ties the changing room number to the passenger, so there’s no good way to voyeur in on “stars”…

Oh, and the TSA drones who are watching the monitors? They’re also wearing travel outfits – and they do get watched when they change – no cell phones, no cameras, no USB thumb drives.

This would eliminate radiation, full-body pat-downs, gropes, harassment, and would better prevent “crotch bombs”.

So, of course, Napolitano won’t do it.

Mew

You are just like your namesake. I’d like to [copy] [paste] your brain into my head.

Very good diary.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

The Airport Solution

Here’s a solution to all the controversy over full-body scanners at the airports.

Have a booth that you can step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have on you.

It would be a win-win for everyone, and there would be none of this crap about racial profiling and this method would eliminate a long and expensive trial. Justice would be quick and swift. Case closed!

This is so simple that it’s brilliant. I can see it now: you’re in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion.

Shortly thereafter an announcement comes over the PA system, “Attention standby passengers we now have a seat available on flight number…”

Works for me!

A win-win. The terrorist gets what he wants – to blow himself up. We get what we want – no one else gets hurt.

Security is evereyones concern. I go armed every day, everywhere I can for my personal protection and security. As an American citizen, I have that right. The idiotic Transportation Secretary, Moneta, (a Clinton Administration holdover) ordered us all disarmed on airline flights. I say trust American citizens to handle the threats they can and let the security forces (not soon to be unioniozed TSA perverts) handle the more serious threats. Allow all citizens to travel armed. If you have seen too many bad airplane movies and worry about gunshots depressurizing the cabin, at least remove the restrictions on carrying knives. Better yet, require all adult U.S. citizens to carry a knoife with a blade at least 4 inches long and require its display at boarding. It would probably disuade would-be hijackers more than making people take off their shoes.

Common sense, criminal profiling, and arming the pilots would be a heck of a lot better than what we’ve got going on. From groping to those porno-lover’s-dream-of-scanner, no area will remain private to law abiding citizens.

So many excellent points in this post. TSA’s budget needs to be on the chopping block come January.

Suppose we got rid of the entire federal apparatus that theoretically insures the safety of our “transportation”, and then set the airlines free to provide this for themselves and their passengers. What would happen? Suppose we simply charged the airlines with the responsibility of providing the utmost security they could provide– And that further, we would dispense with all regulatory and bureaucratic roadblocks to make this happen. What would the airlines do? How would they respond?

Well, I wager they wouldn’t start patting down elderly nuns, three year old children, and investing trillions in counterterrorism devices. Their margins would disallow such foolishness. The first thing I would do, if I were a CEO of one of the airlines in this scenario would be to give extreme scrutiny to any young foreign nationals who bear “Mohammad” as a given, middle or surname. I would also be extremely circumspect to my existing customer base, and let them come on my airplanes unfettered.

I also suspect that the first airline to ban travel by foreign young men of middle-eastern or Arab nationality would have stampedes to the front of their ticket counters. People would feel safer at such air-flight providers– common sense is just this simple.

The private sector, if it were charged with the responsibilities of the TSA, would accomplish the goal in an eighth the time, at a thousandth of the budget, and use common sense to arrive at the solutions. And the flying public would respond to the efforts by choosing which airlines to fly, based on the success of these efforts. By surrendering these functions to the government, we have guaranteed that another, very deadly attack will occur.–And we will have spent trillions guaranteeing it.