Feds green light naked scanners

Quote: Originally Posted by JLM

"We have to be reactive in this matter, we can’t be proactive. We can only respond to threats as they arise. "- It's exactly like any other situation in life. Like locking your doors at night, having a functioning smoke alarm, tying up your shoe laces before you go anywhere- there's things you can do to minimize the risk, but having done all these things, there's still nothing to prevent a Sputnik from falling out of the sky and landing on your head.

Quote: Originally Posted by bobnoorduyn

Except being somewhere else .

Quote: Originally Posted by JLM

You "slay" me Bob.....................

Quote: Originally Posted by barney

Never realized the two had to be mutually exclusive...... etc.

Quote: Originally Posted by bobnoorduyn

The Israelis lost political correctness when their airplanes were the primary targets in the '70's and 80's, they armed their pilots and put armed personnel in the cabin, to deal with any whack job who made it past their highly trained scrutineers. You want to fly safe, fly El Al, they've got a pretty good record considering the threat level they're under.

Quote: Originally Posted by ironsides

Now when El Al is mentioned you do fly secure. In addition to doing as you said, a passenger must be ready for a full body search including body cavities. They also use full body scanners, have been for years. They do and use what ever it takes.

Quote: Originally Posted by AnnaG

Apparently, you misunderstood what I said and didn't read the bit about avoiding the bear. IOW, in avoiding the bear, you just stay away from the area where the bear is in order to be secure. That doesn't mean you lose your liberty to wander about in ALL areas.

Quote: Originally Posted by bobnoorduyn

I feel very insecure in national parks where you cannot wander through bear country armed, so I avoid parks. I never go camping without a shootin' iron or three.

Quote: Originally Posted by petros

Somebody ought to book that John Baird guy as a circus sideshow act.

He can see into the future by at least two months.

Quote: Originally Posted by bobnoorduyn

I could be wrong, but last I heard, they don't use the scanners the US is demanding we use. In any case, they are more discriminatory rather than being random. Randomness has the appearance of being fair in our PC world, it may act as a bit of a deterance, but not very effective for detection.

Quote: Originally Posted by ironsides

I wish they would get over this trying to be fair all the time, I see nothing wrong with a little racial profiling. These terrorists are not 6 foot+ blond Nordic people,