'Enhanced patdown' at airports questioned

[seabeyond]

The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is questioning the propriety of stepped-up security checkpoint procedures at airports in Boston and Las Vegas.

The Transportation Security Administration says screeners at Logan International Airport are testing what one official called an "enhanced patdown." It lets screeners use a palms-forward, slide-down search procedure on passengers' bodies.

It replaces the old back-of-the-hand patdown for passengers who don't want to go through full-body scanning machines, the Boston Herald reports.

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The group questions whether the new technique is effective enough to justify what it calls a "seemingly constant erosion of privacy."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38798074/ns/travel-news/


keeping us safe.

[undeterred]

1. So do the passengers get an extra carry-on

if they let themselves be felt up?

[seabeyond]

2. lol. cute. nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Hmmm, a human body toting weapons would be less likely to

float so I vote we do the Salem Mass thing, if they float send them through, if they don't well they probably didn't need to fly that badly after all.

[seabeyond]

4. hey. shhhhh. someone might hear ya and think it a grand idea

and implement

anything to keep us safe

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Yup, Rumsfeld might be able to reinvent himself... I'll shut up now. n/t

[HipChick]

6. I've had those, and every time I request a male TSA agent

they flatly deny my request...

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. so, the choice is to be felt up or to provide naked video for the voyeurs?

I am surprised the airlines have not complained about the passengers being scared away from flying.
I am NOT surprised that people still put up with the increasingly invasive rules, laws and
behaviors that are conditioning them so well.

We do indeed end with a whimper, not a bang.

[seabeyond]

10. We do indeed end with a whimper, not a bang.

i stopped flying. and it isnt out of fear. it is out of pissed. i refuse to knuckle down to loss of right for preceived feeling of safe, when factually we know it is bullshit.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Same here.

The day TSA went in, I stopped flying.
so did Mr. d.
who has since driven across the country 3 times to see his adult children.
he said Texas got bigger and bigger each time.

[seabeyond]

13. i had to have a couple run ins first. the purposeful intimidation didnt intimidate me

i have to think about being intimidated and it just didnt register. when i realized that was the intent, was like a duh... lol

this was just in the first year.

didnt even get to the point about stupid liquid bottles and no drinking water.

we too drive. i am so thrilled we decided this. gives hubby longer vacation. freedom. and we enjoy the family together so is fun. we see so much

we went from texas to cape cod. and then another vacation texas to SF

our next one will be up to oregon to canada, down to idaho, montana, dakota and down

we will have seen about all the u.s.

we love it

[Posteritatis]

8. Why don't we just sedate everyone and store them in the hold? (nt)

[seabeyond]

11. i say strip all down, a gloved hand up every crevice adn pick up clothes on other side

surely that would make all feel so much more safer

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. then charge the insurance companies for the "prevention physical"!!

[uppityperson]

9. If I fly through there I'll wear a loose dress and just whip it off for them

Wonder if I'd get into trouble or not. I really don't care if a bunch of people saw my aging body, would make a point though.

[WinkyDink]

14. And the plastique in the stowed luggage will still get through.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. The plastique is not the reason we are being searched and prodded.

Teaching the population to Fear and comply is.

[seabeyond]

17. Teaching the population to Fear and comply is

yup