tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post1595357020099150931..comments2024-02-14T11:00:03.180-05:00Comments on Tom McLaughlin: TSA, Students, and the Fourth AmendmentTom McLaughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07691546351143209227noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-4493954517417019312014-10-13T10:32:26.898-04:002014-10-13T10:32:26.898-04:00All US passenger plane should fly with a potbelly ...All US passenger plane should fly with a potbelly pig on board. And all US forces around the world should dip their bullets in pig fat. So if you crash our plane or oppose our forces we will send you to hell.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05145941093414073290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-63254202078286317332010-11-30T12:25:03.732-05:002010-11-30T12:25:03.732-05:00Ben Gurion airport already has plans to install fu...Ben Gurion airport already has plans to install full body scanners next year. They already pull random people aside for closer searches. Their security is allowed to strip search you if they want to. Their security is well trained to look for suspicious behavior in passengers, which is a very good thing, and seems to be the only advantage their system has to ours. We definitly should train our securty in this manner.Chucknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-81737565862105204002010-11-29T21:18:40.930-05:002010-11-29T21:18:40.930-05:00Educator McLaughlin is doing a fine job of prepari...Educator McLaughlin is doing a fine job of preparing the local youth to submit to authority without question. <br /><br />McLaughlin didn't point out to these impressionable young folks that these scanners are being sold by Michael Chertoff, who was the head of the Dept. of Fatherland Security under GW Bush. <br /><br />He also didn't point out that it was bombs on a CARGO plane that caused the increase in security on PASSENGER planes. <br /><br />It's all because of the scary brown men, and certainly has NOTHING at all to do with the manipulation of fear on the part of wealthy, powerful white men! Bend over kids! It'll keep you safe!ayntrandynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-43004136434362263852010-11-29T19:31:44.939-05:002010-11-29T19:31:44.939-05:00I would adapt Israeli security methods to the larg...I would adapt Israeli security methods to the larger US situation. Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv is equivalent to an airport in a small city. Israel's 7 million people include 1 million Arab Muslims. They move quite freely through Ben Gurion. It's not their ethnicity. It's their background and where they've traveled, which shows on their passports. They're questioned closely by people trained to interrogate, and this would be the toughest to adapt to US needs given our size.<br /><br />TSA is federal boondogle aimed at preserving political correctness and expanding government payroll, government unions, government power, and just plain government. It would totally revamp it. I would acknowledge that Radical Islam is our biggest terrorist enemy and I would srutinize closely anyone associated with it, not ordinary Americans.Tom McLaughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691546351143209227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-58636377899523430672010-11-29T12:13:43.309-05:002010-11-29T12:13:43.309-05:00I have nothing against profiling and I have nothin...I have nothing against profiling and I have nothing against the Israel detonator. I also have no problem with getting scanned or frisked. <br /><br />I am still not clear on what Tom would do if in charge. Tom, can you answer this direcrt question:<br /><br />How would you handle security with non-muslim looking passengers?Chucknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-56577658712956036752010-11-29T08:42:08.645-05:002010-11-29T08:42:08.645-05:00If you don't think it is reasonable that you m...If you don't think it is reasonable that you might get patted down in an attempt to prevent planes from exploding than don't fly.<br /><br />This goofy media created story will die out WAY before 2012, and if it doesn't who cares? Let those 15% of people do what they want.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-80591666386263365152010-11-28T07:26:59.959-05:002010-11-28T07:26:59.959-05:00Thanks Rhonda. A good post.
The epitome of reason...Thanks Rhonda. A good post.<br /><br />The epitome of reasonable would be profiling terrorists. It's not likely though with an Obama Administration unwilling even to use the word Islam and terrorism in the same sentence. A government unwilling to identify our enemy is, however, willing to treat all its citizens as potential terrorists and that is beginning to grate Americans.<br /><br />This is an administration that consults CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) for recommendations when filling important anti-terrorist positions in its government. Yet CAIR is a proven supporter of HAMAS - a radical Arab/Muslim terrorist group, a proxy of Iran, and a recruiter of Palestinian suicide bombers!<br /><br />Be interesting to see how this grass-roots, TSA backlash plays out in the run-up to 2012.Tom McLaughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691546351143209227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-62363330474312611282010-11-27T21:47:21.034-05:002010-11-27T21:47:21.034-05:00Yes, I like that new Israeli system. The big deal ...Yes, I like that new Israeli system. The big deal is not about someone seeing a blurry naked image of your body, at least it was not to me. The big deal to me, was that AFTER that, I was told that she would have to do a patdown, and did I mind? Well, all kinds of thoughts went through my head at this point. What would they do if I said "Yes, I do mind"? I had a funeral to go to. So I stuttered a bit and said "No, I guess not". Then she began to rub her hands all over my tatas, every inch of them, right there outside of the scanner, with my hands up in the air, in full view of everyone. I think I went into shock, and didn't even think to ask "Why?", I just bowed my head in shame and walked away feeling totally violated. This happened the first week of September of 2010, before I knew that scanners had been put into place in our airport, so I had no emotional nor mental preparation for this as I might have today. <br /><br />So, what does the 4th amendment say? It says we should be secure against unreasonable searches. This was an unreasonable search. The only thing that I can think of as to why I received an enhanced patdown of only my tatas is the underwire. If that is the ONLY reason I went through that degradation and humiliation, then yes, it was completely unreasonable to me.Rhondanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-21197404186340240622010-11-26T13:06:18.069-05:002010-11-26T13:06:18.069-05:00What is the big deal about somebody seeing a blurr...What is the big deal about somebody seeing a blurry image of your bodies outline? I don't get it. Does somebody have insecurities about what might be seen?<br /><br />"The exploder" system sounds great to me as well. People get frisked and searched going to sporting events, concerts, etc, and now people are trying to make a big deal about airports? Get over it. I saw a poll that said 15% of people have concerns about this topic. This is really such a non-issue that the right wing media is force feeding us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-47521516991909015642010-11-24T10:12:47.060-05:002010-11-24T10:12:47.060-05:00Gotta love the new Israeli system.Gotta love the new Israeli system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-86117575558891312722010-11-23T20:00:34.443-05:002010-11-23T20:00:34.443-05:00From this point on, Tom, I'm making your blog ...From this point on, Tom, I'm making your blog required reading for my students!<br />Sheila (Florida)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07878835448196370357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-80379144174994602062010-11-23T16:15:25.363-05:002010-11-23T16:15:25.363-05:00Given that our TSA security procedures have caught...Given that our TSA security procedures have caught zero terrorists in nine years, all they've done is choreographed a multi-billion-dollar exercise in political correctness. They're even thinking of exempting Muslim women in burkas from screening.<br /><br />It's absurd not to give extra scrutiny to passengers from Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Nigeria, Sudan, etc.<br /><br />Israelis profile using several criteria including a passenger's travel history and country of origin. Mostly, they have highly-trained interviewers ask questions and watch for body language or nervousness in responses. Only those showing either are searched. I wasn't when I passed through there. Evidently, it works well.<br /><br />Plus, I got an email earlier today with this news:<br /><br />"The Israelis are developing an airport security device that eliminates the<br />privacy concerns that come with full-body scanners at the airports.<br /><br />It's a booth you can step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate<br />any explosive device you may have on you. They see this as a win-win for<br />everyone, with none of the whining about racial profiling. It also would<br />eliminate the costs of long and expensive trials. Justice would be swift.<br />Case closed!<br /><br />You're in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion. Shortly<br />thereafter an announcement comes over the PA system: "Attention standby<br />passengers — we now have a seat available on flight number ____. Shalom."Tom McLaughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691546351143209227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-32464514610172242202010-11-23T14:39:42.342-05:002010-11-23T14:39:42.342-05:00Is Tom suggesting that ONLY muslims are targeted a...Is Tom suggesting that ONLY muslims are targeted and nobody else? How quick do you think that muslims will find white accomplices to carry bombs thru security for them? (Not to mention the possibility that a white person decides to do it on their own). If it is not only muslims targeted than we are back to square one - how do we decide who else to screen? <br /><br />Any answerw, Tom?Chucknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-36675877819468023532010-11-23T13:24:41.094-05:002010-11-23T13:24:41.094-05:00Hey Melvin, Tom has his faults as we all do, and I...Hey Melvin, Tom has his faults as we all do, and I don't always agree with him, but please show me anything he has written in the past few years that demonstrates this so called hatred. I have always found him fairly even handed about that. He is just telling the truth. Its not a coincidence that most of the bombers and suspected bombers are dark skinned people. That seems to be the norm for those who come from the part of the world that wants the USA gone.<br /> Find another axe to grind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-91540040862935378032010-11-23T10:52:39.359-05:002010-11-23T10:52:39.359-05:00@Melvin Udall:
Could you please point out in the ...@Melvin Udall:<br /><br />Could you please point out in the article where Tom "demonstrated [his] hatred for all dark skinned people."Jimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-28767200444373371532010-11-23T07:32:37.604-05:002010-11-23T07:32:37.604-05:00You didn't "weave in contemporary issues ...You didn't "weave in contemporary issues to exemplify concepts I’m responsible to teach in my 20th century US History course". You demonstrated your fear and hatred for all dark skinned people. Great restraint, though, in showing a woman's scanned image. I'm sure you really wanted to show a naked man's backside.Melvin Udallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-46392714821348979342010-11-22T23:26:46.358-05:002010-11-22T23:26:46.358-05:00heathWhat is wrong with profiling? Nothing. If som...heathWhat is wrong with profiling? Nothing. If someone is profiled, and passes normal security requirements, then an apology should be offered. Why do we make it so complicated? Adopt El Al's screening.<br /><br />I have my own personal solution. Don't fly unless absolutely necessary.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-70524944243712690572010-11-22T22:52:32.675-05:002010-11-22T22:52:32.675-05:00Yes, El Al is the most secure, safest airline in t...Yes, El Al is the most secure, safest airline in the world. They have to be. And yet they do not use scanners, enhanced pat downs, nor do their passengers have to take off their shoes. Their security agents engage each passenger in a conversation, and they have been highly trained to "read" their reactions. If the agent sees any signs of fear, or nervousness, then they have to be searched. Why can't we use these techniques in the U. S.? One reason is because all of Israel's security agents are highly trained, highly educated, and multilingual.Rhondanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-51319419651771033652010-11-22T19:36:15.555-05:002010-11-22T19:36:15.555-05:00You should see the movie "Please Remove Your ...You should see the movie "Please Remove Your Shoes" (pleaseremoveyourshoesmovie.com)ellen pensohttp://epenso@massmed.orgnoreply@blogger.com