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Airport Security - Too much?

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OMG. Janine, you would be the person who could immediately post a pic that ruins my entire metaphor.
 
I just read an interesting, short, article...

in one of the travel newsletters I get online. They interviewed several people with some expertise in security or law about what the TSA is doing now, and what they think it SHOULD do.

They mostly seemed to agree that the security teams are trying to screen for what has ALREADY happened, and not what is likely to happen next.

See what you think of their suggestions:

http://www.smartertravel.com/blogs/...lalert&value=2010-11-25+00:00:00&u=SL1BFBBCB4
 
Also slightly off=topic, but I do know of at least 3 cases of nurses and nursing students positively indicated by drug sniffer dogs because of handling controlled drugs at work! Slightly worrying for me because I handle them every shift, if I'm not actually administering them we still have to count them every shift. As in morphine, pethedine, oxycodon, buprenorphine etc. I make sure I have my RCN card in my purse when I go to London because passive indicator dogs are used at our big train stations. If you tested my hair and uniform you'd probably get positives as if I was a major drug dealer!
 
Good suggestions in that one, but I'm still rather surprised that no one has mentioned dogs. o_O Or did my eyes gloss over that?

*edit* Yes, that would be a concern with the canines, hunh. My RVT license, at least, states that I am to carry it with me at all times (maybe they mean at work, but I take it a bit more broadly) so I'd have that as an 'excuse'. Maybe a database of licensed medical personnel to go along with the sniffers? Would suck to be an unlicensed tech, though.
 
I'm not looking forward to being groped, but I also am not a fan of getting blown to pieces in the sky. I know all airports don't have the scanner you can go through and a pat down is sometimes the only option which for some people will be a travel deterrent. I see this new policy as both a violation of our right's and a safeguard in the sky so for now I'll submit to a feel up if it makes our government think their keeping us safer and allow my children to be checked as well. My son might clock them, but hey Florida is waaaaay too nice in the summer to miss out on:)
 
I have personally set off those bomb sniffer machines. It was on my way back from Afghanistan, and I was wearing some clothes and boots that the C-4 and other explosives I worked with hadn't quite washed completely out of.

I know quite a few people that have set off the machines also, and they were coming home from stateside bases where they had done some demolition.

Oh, and when those dogs get tired, they start sitting on everything from mouthwash to nail polish. That's why at the bases when they bring out the working dogs, they only work them for a couple hours at a time, tops.
 
We were once delayed at an airport because...

apparently, Bill's camera case must have been sitting on a freshly fertilized lawn at the show we went to, where he took vendors' animals outside to photograph. They kept checking it over and over again with a swab type of thing to check for chemicals. Although it was a bit of a pain, I had no problem with it because they had a REASON to be suspicious - I guess.

So if a bomb sniffing dog singled me out because I had contact with some sort of suspicious chemicals, I would also have no problem with being more thoroughly searched. It is the invasive searches for no reason that I have a problem with. If I truly thought they kept us safe, I would go along with it. But I agree with those in the article I linked to - how will pat downs keep us safe from body cavity bombs or cargo explosives?

Terrorists may be crazy, but I doubt that all of them are stupid. They will just start using whatever tactics go around the pat downs.
 
I read that article, and pretty much agree with everything said. I think the part about the TSA being against a prefered flier card that is given after a background check really shows what they're all about. If it's good enough for employees to access restricted areas and even planes on the tarmac, then it's good enough for passengers.
Just another bloated federal organization sucking up taxpayer dollars and not really doing anything.
 
I'm wondering how many classes I'd have to take, or what certification would be involved, for me to do a little 'volunteer' work for my local Airport Security. ;)
 
LOL, Well, being EOD for 4 years and 2 months, I learned some very creepy things. And, almost none of that has to do with my knowledge of certain things that go BOOM, LOL.
 
So now I have to make sure I schedule any air travel for when I am not menstruating?! This is insane. Time to write to my Congresscritters & Senatocritters!
 
Why wait? I could care less if they see my tampon on those scanners it'll just take a few women to flat out whip it out before they realize it is not a bomb,lol
 
danielle said:
Why wait? I could care less if they see my tampon on those scanners it'll just take a few women to flat out whip it out before they realize it is not a bomb,lol
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Well,....."...they look kind of like sticks of dynamite..."...it says in the article.
 
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I'm not sure I even want to look at any of those links! Going to fly out to see a lot of our family at the end of Dec. and it's already set up and paid for. Guess we'll have to see how bad it is.
 
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