You've heard about it and read about it.  Perhaps you've even experienced it.

But now it's time to do something about it.

It’s time for Americans to stand up and tell Big Brother that they have had enough of the insanity of violating our constitutional rights in order to travel.

It’s time to say NO to virtual strip searches by nude body scanners that produce images that could be stored or possibly found on the Internet.

It’s time to Say NO to “enhanced” body searches that would be considered sexual assault if done by anyone not working for the government.

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The fact is that our government does NOTHING to screen passengers based on terrorist profiles so as not to “offend” anyone.  Instead, they subject EVERYONE - from twelve year old boys to eighty year old grandmothers - to virtual strip searches and physical groping of privates.  read more »

It is in the strategic nature of the enhanced security protocol at the airports, and the argument made to passengers for their compliance that TSA utterly fails to make their case. They fail not just in the possession of full-body scanners or the implementation of enhanced pat-downs, TSA fails because blanket implementation of these protocols does not give airline passengers a degree of safety equal to or surpassing the violation of human dignity that they entail. Individuals seeking alternatives, such as Republican Representative John Mica of Florida, say the answer can be found in replacing TSA agents with private security guards. Mica’s reasoning for such changes is based on the idea that private industry through competition would increase quality and efficiency.

This is possible, but only if several fundamental strategies are put into place. More diligent inspection of passports and pre-travel documents along with observations of passenger activities and actions at the airport will go far toward true airline security. This goes hand in hand with observing sets of characteristics that identify what has been congruent with modern-day terrorists. At this point in time, this means placing higher scrutiny on Muslim males that are traveling from known terrorist locations over elderly American grandmothers in walkers flying to see their grandchildren for the holidays.

To call this racist is to be misguided. To deplete critical security resources to invasively search people who do not fit any criteria of a terrorist simply to be politically correct is more than wasteful, it is reckless. It is reckless because it places all passengers at higher risk as security personnel decrease their attentiveness while searching individuals who are obvious non-threats.

Those that would place all airline travelers in front of the full-body scanners and rubber gloves of TSA personnel cite the case that if the current profile of the modern terrorist is actually observed instead of denied through blanket security procedures that those that wish to do Americans harm will simply use different actors to conduct terrorist activities.  The current evidence does not support this line of thinking for terroristic airline incidents.  read more »