Feeling up women's private parts to fight terrorism

[MrFun]

It is stupid to equate the practice of circumcision with ignorance.

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Dissident
as usual no one listens to me.

I already told you that there is technology that can see underneath clothing and identify suspicious bulges such as weapons and bombs.

The problem is people don't like the fact that an outline of their private parts can be seen.

But surely this is better than being groped.

And they can screen everyone, not just a random sampling.

Diss, how bout you admit that you're obsessed with the idea of seeing underneath peoples' clothing?

[Asher]

Originally posted by MrFun
It is stupid to equate the practice of circumcision with ignorance.

This is true, because the latter is the chief cause for the former...so it is wrong to equate the two.

[MrFun]

[Imran Siddiqui]

Getting back to... whatever. I have no problem with profiling based on behavioral characteristics (like one way tickets, paid in cash, etc). However, when people talk about profiling they are almost always talking about lets get the Arab or lets get the black guy. It's declaring an ethnicity or race guilty before innocent.

And, I'd argue it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. Race and ethnicities are protected classes and just because terrorists may be Arab Muslim males, doesn't mean that every Arab Muslim male is a terrorist, or should be treated as such.

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Getting back to... whatever. I have no problem with profiling based on behavioral characteristics (like one way tickets, paid in cash, etc). However, when people talk about profiling they are almost always talking about lets get the Arab or lets get the black guy.

Well, really, it's just "Let's get the Arab".

[Winston]

You continue along a tangent that, while of great interest to you personally, has little to do with the thread subject at hand, which deals with people not liking the way body searches are performed.

I have to state again that people should be advised that they have a choice if they don't want to undergo a body screening. Nobody is forcing them on the damned flight.

[Imran Siddiqui]

has little to do with the thread subject at hand, which deals with people not liking the way body searches are performed.

You've been long enough to know the term 'threadjack'.

I have to state again that people should be advised that they have a choice if they don't want to undergo a body screening. Nobody is forcing them on the damned flight.

And I have to state again that people shouldn't have to be subject to molestation to get onto a flight.

What if the government said we may have to cut off one of your fingers before you get on the plane. They have a choice if they don't want the finger cut off. No one is forcing them on the plane!

[Winston]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
What if the government said we may have to cut off one of your fingers before you get on the plane. They have a choice if they don't want the finger cut off. No one is forcing them on the plane!

And how do you propose this practice would be instituted as a means to help prevent the loss if lives to terrorist acts? Because that is what this is all about, you realise that don't you?

[Winston]

And that really is one Hell of an annoying avatar you're sporting, not least considering the subject you're posting on here.

[Imran Siddiqui]

And how do you propose this practice would be instituted as a means to help prevent the loss if lives to terrorist acts? Because that is what this is all about, you realise that don't you?

There are far less humiliating ways to go about this. Like others have pointed out, the screeners seem to use it as a powertrip.

And that really is one Hell of an annoying avatar you're sporting, not least considering the subject you're posting on here.

Deal with it. IOW, I don't give a damn what you think about my avatar.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Winston
You continue along a tangent that, while of great interest to you personally, has little to do with the thread subject at hand, which deals with people not liking the way body searches are performed.

I have to state again that people should be advised that they have a choice if they don't want to undergo a body screening. Nobody is forcing them on the damned flight.

Did you know there are people who fly for business rather than leisure?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Shocking MrFun!!

And the airlines would rather this rule not exist, but the TSA is shoving it down their throats.

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Deal with it. IOW, I don't give a damn what you think about my avatar.

Nobody's forcing him to come to this site. By his logic, he has no right to complain.

[Winston]

Correct, Jaguar.

But then it falls on the poster who thought it was absolutely brilliant to pick such an image to represent himself, to deal with others possibly being turned off by his arguments on matters dealing with terrorism and how to prevent it.