There are far more effective methods the TSA can employ in "preventing explosives on airlines".
But the PC elites won't stand for that. Everyone needs to be considered a terrorist, since it could
be offensive to actually focus attention on those far more likely to be a terrorist, or helping one
So just leave a HUGE gaping hole in security?
Again...do you not realize we are at war with very, very ruthless people.
So we don't screen kids, nuns, old grandma's.
How long will it be until they dress up an IslamoNazi like a Nun and blow our families into what looks like a bowl of grits?
Then we'll hear "well golly gee didn't Obama realize they'd dress somebody up in a Nun's outfit & blow up this 767 with hundreds of people on it"?
So
SIRS all your better solutions are specifically what?
Please dont use the "cop out" answer "be like Israel".
You seem sooooo concerned about a citizens Constitutional Rights.
Well do you not support the Constitutional Rights of US Citizens if we were to switch to an Israeli "profiling method"?
What about my friend that is an Arab American?
Are you willing to wave his "Constitutional Rights"?
According to you my Arab American friend is "innocent until proven guilty".
So would we be able to keep him off a plane if he refuses to answer personal questions, refuses pat downs, refuses full scanning?
The Israelis would not allow him on a plane unless he submits, are you saying we should deny this American Citizen like the Israelis?
Where does your constitutional outrage start and stop for Arab Americans
SIRS?
BTW Israel has full-body scanners on order.
The US has 30,000-40,000 flights a day, Israel has no where near that number.
The US has dozens of very large international airports, Israel does not.
At any given moment, roughly 5,000 planes are in the skies above the United States dwarfing Israel.
In one year, controllers handle an average of 64 million takeoffs and landings in the US.
It's not all quick and easy in Isreal either:
Passengers waiting at Ben Gurion International Airport, September 13, 2010