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U.S. Airport Pat-Downs Are About to Get More Invasive


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2017 Mar 4, 7:50am   16,421 views  51 comments

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While few have noticed, U.S. airport security workers long had the option of using five different types of physical pat-downs at the screening line. Now those options have been eliminated and replaced with a single universal approach. This time, you will notice.

The new physical touching—for those selected to have a pat-down—will be be what the federal agency officially describes as a more “comprehensive” physical screening, according to a Transportation Security Administration spokesman.

Denver International Airport, for example, notified employees and flight crews on Thursday that the “more rigorous” searches “will be more thorough and may involve an officer making more intimate contact than before.”

“I would say people who in the past would have gotten a pat-down that wasn’t involved will notice that the [new] pat-down is more involved,” TSA spokesman Bruce Anderson said Friday. The shift from the previous, risk-based assessment on which pat-down procedure an officer should apply was phased in over the past two weeks after tests at smaller airports, he said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-03/u-s-airport-pat-downs-are-about-to-get-more-invasive

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1   Strategist   2017 Mar 4, 7:57am  

Blurtman says

U.S. Airport Pat-Downs Are About to Get More Invasive

Fucking Islam.

2   Shaman   2017 Mar 4, 7:58am  

Trump needs to abolish Islam and the TSA, in that order. Two terrorist organizations that need to go down.

3   Blurtman   2017 Mar 4, 9:26am  

Mr. Gere, are you going to make me search for the gerbil?

4   Ceffer   2017 Mar 4, 9:39am  

On the bright side, they have been diagnosing thousand of cases of prostate cancer and cervical anomalies for free. The TSA unions are now demanding Obamacare subsidies.

They also want hazard pay and disability for orgasm induced carpal tunnel syndrome.

They also want permission to bitch slap travelers who mime "You makee mee happy ending big time, or no tipee?"

5   Dan8267   2017 Mar 4, 9:44am  

All commercial air travel should immediately cease until the government can find a way to guarantee safety without committing sexual assault. I guarantee you that the "security experts" will find a non-invasive alternative within an hour rather than causing massive economic disruption. This is all security theater and does nothing to make you safer.

All the assholes bitching about transgenders using the wrong bathroom should be marching on Washington, D.C. with AK-47s protesting this and threatening violence if it does not immediately stop.

6   Y   2017 Mar 4, 9:47am  

If u don't like it take the train.
No law saying you have to fly

7   Strategist   2017 Mar 4, 10:01am  

Dan8267 says

All commercial air travel should immediately cease until the government can find a way to guarantee safety without committing sexual assault. I guarantee you that the "security experts" will find a non-invasive alternative within an hour rather than causing massive economic disruption. This is all security theater and does nothing to make you safer.

The Islamists have not stopped targeting us. We will not sacrifice our safety.

8   Dan8267   2017 Mar 4, 10:31am  

Strategist says

The Islamists have not stopped targeting us. We will not sacrifice our safety.

You've done exactly that. It's not the Islamists who are sexually assaulting your daughter. It's the TSA. You are not safe from the TSA. You have completely giving up your safety.

9   Dan8267   2017 Mar 4, 10:31am  

The smart jihadist would just get a job with the TSA and terrorize people with impunity.

10   Blurtman   2017 Mar 4, 10:38am  

Strategist says

The Islamists have not stopped targeting us. We will not sacrifice our safety.

Agree. Unfortunate.

11   Y   2017 Mar 4, 10:43am  

The difference being you will not die from a tsa patdown...
Dan8267 says

Strategist says

The Islamists have not stopped targeting us. We will not sacrifice our safety.

You've done exactly that.

12   Dan8267   2017 Mar 4, 10:51am  

Only fools believe that security theater will make them safer.

The TSA Isn’t Keeping Us Safe, Says Inspector General Report
The TSA has never kept you safe: here’s why
TSA rituals don't make us safer
11 Reasons the TSA is NOT Making Us Safer

I could go on and on. The fact is that the TSA misses 95% of mock concealed weapons in every test actually done. But I'm sure that $25k/yr horny guy whose last job was at McDonald's is going to make you so much safer by rubbing your daughter's pussy with his hand.

I guess conservatives don't mind strange men copping feels of their daughters, at least not until the TSA starts hiring transgenders. Oh, and that's coming. You can count on that.

13   Strategist   2017 Mar 4, 11:53am  

Dan8267 says

You have completely giving up your safety.

So now you are a security expert too.

You always were an expert on:
Crime
Safety
Economics
And now "Airline Safety"

14   Patrick   2017 Mar 4, 1:10pm  

Macropodia says

If u don't like it take the train.

No law saying you have to fly

If we had clean efficient high-speed rail service, I totally would. It's much better to leave and arrive from the center of town than from an airport.

15   Dan8267   2017 Mar 4, 2:06pm  

rando says

Macropodia says

If u don't like it take the train.


No law saying you have to fly

No law says you have to use currency either, but try not doing so.

Some things are practical necessities in modern life. The public has a right to demand that such necessities do not harm the public unnecessarily. So yes, grievances against practices by the government, monopolies, and oligopolies are valid.

Some monopolies are necessary. Even a large city can support one, maybe two airports, at most. So yes, the public should be able to impose political pressure on having that infrastructure run safely, efficiently, and without violating human rights, or creating an undue economic burden on the public or individuals.

16   Shaman   2017 Mar 4, 2:28pm  

Dan8267 says

The smart jihadist would just get a job with the TSA and terrorize people with impunity.

I understand the Orlando gay nightclub shooter had a job with a branch of Homeland Security. Talk about paying the fox to guard the chickens! Only in Obama's America...

17   Dan8267   2017 Mar 4, 2:56pm  

Also in Bush's and Trump's America.

18   joeyjojojunior   2017 Mar 4, 3:02pm  

Quigley says

I understand the Orlando gay nightclub shooter had a job with a branch of Homeland Security.

Actually that is not true. He worked for a security company that won some contracts from Dept of State and Dept of Homeland Security.

http://theweek.com/speedreads/629828/orlando-shooter-worked-major-homeland-security-contractor

19   zzyzzx   2017 Mar 4, 4:05pm  

Dan8267 says

I guarantee you that the "security experts" will find a non-invasive alternative within an hour rather than causing massive economic disruption.

20   zzyzzx   2017 Mar 4, 4:07pm  

rando says

It's much better to leave and arrive from the center of town than from an airport.

Really? Why? Generally speaking, parking is much better at the airport than the center of town.

21   Patrick   2017 Mar 4, 4:48pm  

The center of town is where things are going on, as a rule. Except for cities with too much "vibrant diversity" downtown.

Airports are in hideously ugly strip-mall land where no living pedestrians are anywhere to be seen. It's all sadness and slow death.

22   Tenpoundbass   2017 Mar 4, 7:50pm  

I like how the news expect the people that have never flown before to be outraged every time they report a Muslim that was inconvenienced by the Airport boarding protocol. Because Bush was such a globalist Shit suck, he didn't want to hurt the Muslims feelings, so he set up the TSA to pretty much pester and harass everyone.
You whining, pissing and moaning about your terrible treatment of the assholes at the airport screening process. Is music to my ears, how do think we feel?

23   Strategist   2017 Mar 4, 7:59pm  

zzyzzx says

How do i get on this flight? I don't care where it's going.

24   FNWGMOBDVZXDNW   2017 Mar 5, 4:44am  

Dan8267 says

All the assholes bitching about transgenders using the wrong bathroom

Those people want to be molested. They just don't want to admit it, so they make it a requirement 'for safety' .

25   Blurtman   2017 Mar 5, 6:14am  

rando says

The center of town is where things are going on

At airports you are penned in with people in transit. Flying out of Seattle, I am convinced people are flying high. On a recent flight, a tattooed row mate seemed to be on something, rocking his body, making repetitive motions with the tray, and repeating phrases to himself. He was very polite, was able to speak, and ordered a few bourbons, anxiously looking around for the attendant when he needed another. Maybe he had PTSD.

26   Dan8267   2017 Mar 5, 10:17am  

Strategist says

So now you are a security expert too.

Well, if common sense and listening to the plethora of evidence done by experts makes one an expert, then yes. It's amazing how much knowledge one can gain by reading.

P.S. It's utter hypocrisy for someone advocating these policies with zero evidence to back up his claims to bitch and moan about the expertise of someone opposing those policies with actual evidence.

27   Dan8267   2017 Mar 5, 10:21am  

What you fantasize you'll be sitting next to.
zzyzzx says

Reality

Still want naked airline passengers?

28   NuttBoxer   2017 Mar 6, 11:04am  

Dan8267 says

All commercial air travel should immediately cease until the government can find a way to guarantee safety without committing sexual assault.

No one can guarantee safety, that's always a false promise used to get people to trade freedoms. And the track record for good safety ideas has already been cemented with the airlines themselves, and the passengers. Funny how the people most vested in taking a trip are also it's biggest security assets.

29   NuttBoxer   2017 Mar 6, 11:08am  

Just get your official government anti-rape papers to avoid all the ogling and fondling. With my Sentri card, and it's built in RFID, I can travel molestation free anywhere I want to go.

30   Dan8267   2017 Mar 7, 8:14am  

NuttBoxer says

Just get your official government anti-rape papers to avoid all the ogling and fondling. With my Sentri card, and it's built in RFID, I can travel molestation free anywhere I want to go.

The government should not be allowed to charge for not raping. All people should go through the same process regardless of how rich they are.

31   NuttBoxer   2017 Mar 7, 1:28pm  

Dan8267 says

The government should not be allowed to charge for not raping.

The charge is for 24/hr tracking. The not-raping is a fringe benefit.

32   Dan8267   2017 Mar 7, 1:31pm  

NuttBoxer says

The charge is for 24/hr tracking. The not-raping is a fringe benefit.

That's not a service the government is providing to the citizen, but rather a service the citizen is providing to the government. If anything, the citizen should be paid for everything he's giving to the government.

33   Y   2017 Mar 7, 1:56pm  

Without the government there are no citizens.
Dan8267 says

NuttBoxer says

The charge is for 24/hr tracking. The not-raping is a fringe benefit.

If anything, the citizen should be paid for everything he's giving to the government.

34   NuttBoxer   2017 Mar 8, 1:08pm  

Dan8267 says

That's not a service the government is providing to the citizen, but rather a service the citizen is providing to the government.

In other words, every government program in existence...

Dan8267 says

If anything, the citizen should be paid for everything he's giving to the government.

Yet who pays taxes?

35   Dan8267   2017 Mar 8, 2:02pm  

NuttBoxer says

Yet who pays taxes?

There's a big difference between social services and infrastructure being paid for by the public and the government favoring rich people with a different set of rules. You should not be allowed to buy government privileges.

36   Strategist   2017 Mar 8, 3:24pm  

Dan8267 says

If anything, the citizen should be paid for everything he's giving to the government.

Yup. Money grows on trees.

37   NuttBoxer   2017 Mar 9, 9:21am  

Dan8267 says

There's a big difference between social services and infrastructure being paid for by the public

How much of that budget actually goes toward the people who need it? I can tell you from experience(wife is a social worker), that contracts are met by pushing papers around, not by actually helping people. Ever heard the phrase "government boondoggle"?

Dan8267 says

You should not be allowed to buy government privileges.

Sentri passes are like $80 for five years, WTF are you talking about?

38   tn2   2017 Mar 10, 9:12pm  

If tyranny is so wonderful, why do people try to escape North Korea?

39   Strategist   2017 Mar 10, 9:27pm  

tn2 says

If tyranny is so wonderful, why do people try to escape North Korea?

That's where Dan and Jazz should go. They will feel quite at home there.

40   Dan8267   2017 Mar 10, 9:34pm  

Actually, the world Strategist wants is like North Korea, a place where authoritarianism is absolute. What I want for the United States is the exact opposite of what North Korea is. I want a nation where all persons are equal under law with the exact same rights and no privileges for anyone, a society where we all obey the exact same laws, no exceptions. Strategists wants a class society with different laws for different people. He wants America to be North Korea.

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