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Sounds like Clear did what they said they would. Get you to the front.
Maybe you misunderstood what service they were providing...

https://www.clearme.com/
WHAT IS CLEAR?
CLEAR is the fastest and most predictable way to get through airport security. Being a CLEAR member means you can breeze right past the long lines and go straight to screening.

I was going through STL airport security this past Monday. They freak out when the metal detectors go off on me. I have lots of metal implants below my waist.

Well thank God and let's all just be thankful, that some Dark skinned middle Easterner wasn't a victim of Racial profiling. You and Elena did humanity a great service you should be proud. You were part of the great American bureaucratic Dog and Pony show, the worlds most expensive effort to seem like the Government is doing Dickall, as good decent folk your selves are sodomized by the screening process.

"No Radical Islam extremists were harmed in making this Video"

I want a CLEAR card made of C4 with a remote fuse.

ohomen171 says

go through the dreaded x-ray body search with its radiation. We both were mad as hell. We were sure that some large error had happened.

Likewise when we were getting ready to board the plane to return from New Orleans, Elena was subject to the same indignity.

So you are complaining that you can't by privilege? The very idea of CLEAR, which we all knew was the plan from the start of 9/12/2001, is Unconstitutional.

The average person has to endure sexual assault and humiliation, but the rich and connected can buy their way out of this. This is the very definition of inequality under law and privilege classes of citizens.

You should be complaining that anyone has to endure rape-scanners, not that you couldn't buy your way into a privilege class.

Airport security is theater. It does NOTHING to make us safer. Any terrorist could easily kill multitudes of people while standing in the crowded lines for security. How do you solve that problem? Have pre-security security lines? Then how do you protect the people in those lines?

I make it a point to never fly unless I absolutely have to. It's despicable that we even let our government commit these human rights violations. It's also despicable that the privilege few get any protection from so-called essential security measures while the rest of us are treated like meat and sex toys.

ohomen171 says

I think that the CLEAR card started with the noble intention of speeding very trust-worthy travelers through the security process.

No. It started because the dehumanization done by the TSA is supposed to only be inflicted upon the poor and the middle class, not the political elite or the rich. Most rich bypass commercial air travel all together since they can afford private air travel. But some of the lesser rich, who can afford to buy politicians, still have to fly commercial sometimes. CLEAR was intended for them, politicians, and their families, not "trustworthy" middle class people.

Dan8267 says

ohomen171 says

I think that the CLEAR card started with the noble intention of speeding very trust-worthy travelers through the security process.

No. It started because the dehumanization done by the TSA is supposed to only be inflicted upon the poor and the middle class, not the political elite or the rich. Most rich bypass commercial air travel all together since they can afford private air travel. But some of the lesser rich, who can afford to buy politicians, still have to fly commercial sometimes. CLEAR was intended for them, politicians, and their families, not "trustworthy" middle class people.

If there was one plane with no security, and another plane with ultra tight security, and I had to pick which plane my children were gonna board, do you think I would choose the first plane?
Sorry Dan, your constitutional rights are not important enough for me to sacrifice the safety of my family. In other words......kiss my ass. :) :)

Strategist says

Sorry Dan, your constitutional rights are not important enough for me to sacrifice the safety of my family. In other words......kiss my ass. :) :)

Violations of Constitutional, civil, and human rights do not make your family safer. In fact, them make them less safe.

It would be trivial for terrorists to blow up a plane today. Because of corporate greed, commercial flights don't just carry passengers, they carry air mail. That's why the airlines want you carry as little luggage as possible. It leaves more cargo space for air mail and more profit.

Air mail is not scrutinized like the genitalia of your children when you go through TSA checkpoints. A terrorist could place a bomb in an air package, and rig the detonator to a smartphone. When the GPS on the smartphone reads an altitude passed some threashold, an app on the smartphone sends a signal (can be wired like USB instead of wireless) to the detonator and boom. Your family is dead.

Similarly, port cargo is not checked. The Republicans blocked all measures to require securing America's seaports because it would decrease corporate profits. I guess if Mexicans crossed on cargo ships, conservatives would demand such checks, but since it's only the threat of loose nukes in shipping containers, well that's not worth it.

One loose nuke on a cargo ship and an entire American city can be taken out. Yet, there is no real security in our sea ports today.

Violating human rights does not make your family safer. You want safety, then violate corporate profit margins. That actually would make your family safer.

As for you specific example, a terrorist just can easily blow up your family while they are standing in that security line. It would send a chilling message to America that it is impossible for their government to protect them no matter much the government abuses our rights and human dignity.

So, you see, it will be impossible for me to kiss your ass as I won't be able to find a piece larger than a pebble after an ISIS terrorist blows your family to bits because you were foolish enough to stand in a crowded line that was a perfect target for a terrorist attack.

Oh, and one more thing. A member of your family is far more likely to die from an overzealous security officer than from a terrorist. People have died from security theater. They have also been literally raped. And shit like that happened before 9/11 as well.