Post by bounce on May 18, 2006 10:03:13 GMT -8
The TSA cannot see what's right in front of their face. This is just more evidence of the White Guilt Steele was talking about.
We can't "racially profile" the REAL THREAT (Arab men between the age of 18 and 40). No, now all they have to do is behave themselves until they get airborne!
This is just as mindless as the way it was before!
They are REALLY STRAINING to avoid seeing what's right before their eyes!
Jesus Man! WTF??? Why do we have such a hard time with race??? Shelby Steele nailed it.
www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1195330,00.html
A New Tack for Airport Screening: Behave Yourself
Exclusive: Airport screeners plan to shift tactics, focusing less on scissors and more on passenger behavior
In the four years since it was created, the Transportation Security Administration has been trying — and often failing — to find dangerous things that passengers might bring onto an aircraft. Now the TSA is aiming to become less obsessed with scissors and cigarette lighters and focusing more on passenger behavior. Government sources tell TIME that the agency will announce in the next few weeks that it will introduce a race-neutral profiling program at the country's busiest airports, among them New York's John F. Kennedy, Los Angeles International and Chicago's O'Hare. The program has an awkward title, Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques, but a clever acronym, SPOT. It has been tested over the last three years at several airports in the northeast, including Boston's Logan Airport, where two of the 9/11 hijacking teams launched their operations.
We can't "racially profile" the REAL THREAT (Arab men between the age of 18 and 40). No, now all they have to do is behave themselves until they get airborne!
This is just as mindless as the way it was before!
They are REALLY STRAINING to avoid seeing what's right before their eyes!
Jesus Man! WTF??? Why do we have such a hard time with race??? Shelby Steele nailed it.
www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1195330,00.html
A New Tack for Airport Screening: Behave Yourself
Exclusive: Airport screeners plan to shift tactics, focusing less on scissors and more on passenger behavior
In the four years since it was created, the Transportation Security Administration has been trying — and often failing — to find dangerous things that passengers might bring onto an aircraft. Now the TSA is aiming to become less obsessed with scissors and cigarette lighters and focusing more on passenger behavior. Government sources tell TIME that the agency will announce in the next few weeks that it will introduce a race-neutral profiling program at the country's busiest airports, among them New York's John F. Kennedy, Los Angeles International and Chicago's O'Hare. The program has an awkward title, Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques, but a clever acronym, SPOT. It has been tested over the last three years at several airports in the northeast, including Boston's Logan Airport, where two of the 9/11 hijacking teams launched their operations.
