Pilot to TSA: 'No Groping Me and No Naked Photos'

Saw this morning the refusal of the machine now will get the a same sex pat down. No wand anymore.

Does anything think it's time for Max to get a TSA job?
 
BeRich said:
I agree. Most people don't care enough yet to do anything. The problem is, eventually, it will spill over into everyday life, and hopefully it won't be to late to do anything.
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It already is. Last week I was patted down to see a football game...since when did that start? Next it will be to get into shopping malls and supermarkets. But, at least we're safe! :sarcasm:
 
Bernoulli Fan said:
I'm not saying TSA screenings are the Holocaust or anything, but
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You, and all others, make a choice to pack yourself into a long skinny aluminum tube to be isolated and subjected to whatever may happen during the flight.

I avoid dark allies and sections of the city where robberies and street murders are happening. I would not get on an airplane if no level of security were not being taken. Maybe the current method of security isn't to your liking, and maybe it can be improved, but your comparison of a 'body frisking' to the Holocaust is, well, ...amusing, at best.

You, and most of the other commenter here consider that it is your 'right' to board a public conveyance where it is known that there are people who will try to smuggle dangerous objects, and yet you think it is your 'right' to privacy in this situation?

?

Hey, I don't have to go through the line every day, and be subjected to the hassle, and I think that is what is driving your frustration, ...but, I don't want anybody, pilots included, to get on that airplane without an extensive body search. It's not your right,...how do you get that idea?

Do you think that being a pilot makes you special?
 
nosehair said:
You, and all others, make a choice to pack yourself into a long skinny aluminum tube to be isolated and subjected to whatever may happen during the flight.

I avoid dark allies and sections of the city where robberies and street murders are happening. I would not get on an airplane if no level of security were not being taken. Maybe the current method of security isn't to your liking, and maybe it can be improved, but your comparison of a 'body frisking' to the Holocaust is, well, ...amusing, at best.

You, and most of the other commenter here consider that it is your 'right' to board a public conveyance where it is known that there are people who will try to smuggle dangerous objects, and yet you think it is your 'right' to privacy in this situation?

?

Hey, I don't have to go through the line every day, and be subjected to the hassle, and I think that is what is driving your frustration, ...but, I don't want anybody, pilots included, to get on that airplane without an extensive body search. It's not your right,...how do you get that idea?

Do you think that being a pilot makes you special?
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Yeah, and Aunt Bessie and Grandma are more than happy to go through "security" because they're safer when they fly. What a freakin' joke.

HAHA HAHA HAHA.....HA :rolleyes:
 
nosehair said:
Do you think that being a pilot makes you special?
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Umm...you do realize that, if they really wanted to, a pilot can kill everyone on board with nothing but their opposable thumbs, right? Unfortunately, the TSA doesn't have a procedure to prevent that.
 
nosehair said:
You, and all others, make a choice to pack yourself into a long skinny aluminum tube to be isolated and subjected to whatever may happen during the flight.

I avoid dark allies and sections of the city where robberies and street murders are happening. I would not get on an airplane if no level of security were not being taken. Maybe the current method of security isn't to your liking, and maybe it can be improved, but your comparison of a 'body frisking' to the Holocaust is, well, ...amusing, at best.

You, and most of the other commenter here consider that it is your 'right' to board a public conveyance where it is known that there are people who will try to smuggle dangerous objects, and yet you think it is your 'right' to privacy in this situation?

?

Hey, I don't have to go through the line every day, and be subjected to the hassle, and I think that is what is driving your frustration, ...but, I don't want anybody, pilots included, to get on that airplane without an extensive body search. It's not your right,...how do you get that idea?

Do you think that being a pilot makes you special?
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For serious? The 'security' measures are a joke, plain and simple. You really want pilots to go through an extensive body search? OK, you don't have any underwear bombs so obviously you don't want to blow up the plane, but you may be mentally unstable so here are the controls to said plane, lock the bullet proof door and have a nice day.

On second thought:

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nosehair said:
Hey, I don't have to go through the line every day, and be subjected to the hassle, and I think that is what is driving your frustration, ...but, I don't want anybody, pilots included, to get on that airplane without an extensive body search. It's not your right,...how do you get that idea?

Do you think that being a pilot makes you special?
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I could just nose the airplane over and kill you so I don't need a gun, bomb, or other device. Also I have my very own axe to scalp you with, if I decide not to crash the plane. Also if I was to be an FFDO I would have my gun and no security check to start.

Doesn't make me special, but you are at the airport to work. The pilots are the ones that need protecting from general public not the other way around. Last time I checked the pilots getting murdered was the reason sept 11th happened not the other way around.

There is definitely not enough conclusive evidence to convince me that going through the back scatter detector every day is safe in the long term.

Ignorance is bliss my friend.
 
So, what is the answer? "Trust you?"

I'm glad I'm not in Russia, the West Bank, or many African countries trying to fly on commericial airlines.

If you don't like the method, suggest a better mousetrap?
 
nosehair said:
...but, I don't want anybody, pilots included, to get on that airplane without an extensive body search. It's not your right,...how do you get that idea?

Do you think that being a pilot makes you special?
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well, actually yes. I have been through several FBI background checks that qualify me to get access to, not only MY flight deck but those of others (with the appropriate paperwork and CASS check). Additionally, the purpose of the TSA is to keep UNAUTHORIZED persons from gaining access to the control of an airliner. You see, as a captain I already had control of the airliner. If i needed a weapon, I could just grab the crash axe behind the FO's seat.

So in a word yes my flight crew and I are in fact special and should not have to go through security.
 
-To nosehair= I think what he was describing is the fact that the ract that the police are seemingly outnumbering the threat. In this particular circumstance the people the police are meant to protect become the threat and the new enemy. Last time I checked the TSA's purpose is to "enhance aviation security in all modes of transportaion" -where is the part about keeping pilots from reporting to work?:dunno:
 
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