Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
I understand your point but I don't think a frisk should be conducted unless probable cause is demonstrated. Not having ID is no reason for frisking. Being disabled is no reason for a frisking. Having had a medical procedure is no reason for a frisking.
However alarming an ETD would in my opinion give cause for more in depth screening. Why is it so hard for TSA to knock off the BS and used devices that detect WEI?
Round file the WBI and deploy devices that detect chemicals of concern, or don't they really work?
Test for WEI and as you suggest document why any kind of frisk is ordered. That would at least hold TSA workers accountable for their actions.
Based on reports from off shore WBI machines have false positives of upwards of 75%. That is a story that TSA is working very hard to hide. No pat down should ever be conducted based solely on WBI screening.
Current ETD technology renders even more false positives than the WBI. The rate of false positives from both technologies is insanely high.
These technologies are so inaccurate that a "positive" from either doesn't rise to the level of "probable cause".
When the whole scope n' grope nonsense started, I was pretty open minded about the TSA's presence in the airports. That's changed. The more I analyze the way the TSA spends money, hires people and sets policy, the more certain I am that they must turn transportation security back over to the airlines and the airports.
The free market will quickly determine which technologies are worth spending money on, and which are boondoggles. The courts will quickly sort out what screening tactics are acceptable.
The TSA is a failed experiment, and it's high time we pulled the plug. More time and money invested in the TSA will only highlight the federal government's incompetence and moral turpitude. The TSA has gotten steadily worse since its inception, in spite of a ballooning budget and several changes in leadership.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
Enough already!
PS: It's ironic that I, a middle-aged, died-in-the-wool social and political conservative came to the same conclusion as "The Moral Liberal".
http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/...-air-security/