TSA clueless
Let me see if I have this right: A guy who has a terrorist warning issued about him by his family walks into the Amsterdam airport wearing a weapon sewn in Jockey shorts, pays cash for a one- way transatlantic flight, apparently doesn't flash a visa, boards a U.S.-based airliner, attempts to blow it up as it nears Detroit, is stopped by a Dutch citizen who was a few rows behind him, and our so- called head of Homeland Security says her system worked like clockwork.
Then, to add insult to near injury, the TSA decides to clamp down on us, people who aren't about to do anything like that.
So after inspecting millions of laptop computers, probably billions of shoes and one-quart Ziploc baggies with 3-ounce shampoo bottles in them and finding no threat to an airplane, they're still going to ignore those pesky post-adolescent Muslim Omega Watch Replica males who are trying their best to kill you and me because it's politically incorrect to profile them.
Then they continue to subject honest, innocent American citizens to undue and unnecessary scrutiny. We need an honest-to-goodness cop running that department, not a clueless Obama sycophant who got the job as a political payoff.
Dave Newbry
Martinez
Body scans OK
As someone who had a hip replacement and now lives with a metal post in my leg, I am impatient with those who object to full-body scans as an invasion of privacy.
Every time I go through airport security, alarms go off and I am patted down, even though I have a card from my orthopedist explaining the source of the metal.
The one time I was not subjected to this indignity and invasion of privacy was when I went through a full-body scan.
Our primary goal should be safety of passengers, and that's why I don't object to the indignity of the pat down, but I'd much prefer a full-body scan which is faster and provides a higher level of privacy. In addition, scans are neither saved nor stored, and they are viewed by someone in a remote location so that it's possible to achieve Replica TAG Heuer greater security while simultaneously providing more privacy.
Diane C. Mader
Walnut Creek
Dehumanizing
I'm never going to fly again. I'm not afraid of the terrorists. I'm afraid of the security officers.
How many rules and regulations must I follow? There has never been an old woman terrorist. Why do they search me? Why do they make me remove my shoes? I can't bend over.
The body scanner will see a naked 78-year-old black woman. Wow! I hope it gives them a thrill.
There is no way to stop terrorists 100 percent of the time. If a human is willing to kill himself to commit terror we can't stop him.
It would be easy for a terrorist to bomb our supermarkets, our churches or Walmart with no security, but I don't see problems there.
Why do they dehumanize us at the airports? Airport security is a big government dehumanizing bureaucracy.
We don't need them.
Ella Jensen
El Cerrito
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