Obviously neither one of you has ever flown on El Al.
Superman's third-cousin twice removed on his father's side? Can't say I have.
Something you need to share with us, TT?
Then don't fly on a commercial airline and you won't be searched. By choosing to fly on a commercial airline, you are accepting the possibility that you will be searched. It's that simple. You are the one making the choice.
No. I have the right to move around the country, freely and without restriction. It's not up to the government to control how I can do that. And it's
certainly not the government's place to search me without a warrant or probable cause. Would you be opposed to TSA check points at every free-way onramp and toll booth?
These procedures should
not be tolerated. I may have no written "right to fly" but the government, more importantly, has no written right to restrict or analyze my travel behaviors without cause. It's also very important to point out nothing that is being done would've prevented 9/11 and that no one was "blown up" as a result of poor airport security. Poor communication and gumption in the intelligence community led to 9/11.
The current standards wouldn't have stopped anyone or anything from carrying out 9/11. They would've exploited the weaknesses and found a way.
And, I ask again, every minor incident that occurs now with airlines results in a pretty huge jump in security. Before it'd take a major incident to get a small change in airline security. Now in just nine years airline security has increased from metal-detectors and x-raying luggage while allowing travel items on the plane (shampoos, etc.) and even minor knives and zippos to now carry-on luggage being heavily restricted, liquids being heavily restricted, and now people either have the option of being irradiated or groped to get on a plane.
That's a heck of a change over the course of nine years over one, major, accomplishment on the part of terrorists in all of aviation history in America which is littered with fairly minor hijacking incidents. But one major thing happens, the terrorists get lucky in a string of failures along the route from rooting themselves in America up to 9/11 so we change things more in 9 years than we have in 40.
Bullshit.
Changes were needed, sure. But all the way up to what we're putting people through now? Too damn far and pretty much giving the terrorists what they want. They want us to be afraid and to willing give up our freedoms. Every person who goes through airline security without causing a ruckus is just making freedom that much more scarce. If people are so willing to be searched or irradiated in this manner what next step will the government try and take in the name of "safety."
And what
if terrorists try and to hijack/blow-up a plane using a device concealed in a body cavity? How willing are people going to be to either get a cavity search or a deeper radiation scan? If the way things have gone the last nine years holds true people will be
too willing.
I also argue these procedures are hurting the airline industry more than anything else. I'd love to take a trip somewhere, fly somewhere (as it's quicker and easier) and all of that but now I'm not so sure. Because I do not like these TSA rules. I think they're overkill, I think they're harmful to both my body, privacy and freedom and I don't think they're going to save anyone or anything.
Something like 2 million people traveled over this past weekend. All of them were either irradiated or felt-up. Nothing happened. I see that as some pretty solid numbers that all of this is pointless.
), I was wearing my winter coat for the return trip. By the time I got to the El Al desk, I was dripping with sweat from running between terminals while carrying my luggage - not only was it mild enough to be wearing shorts and a t-shirt, being surrounded by glass and concrete at LAX caused it to be quite warm.
Now *that* is hilarious!! You are being forced to buy a ticket?! Maybe at gunpoint or something? 
