Originally Posted by
RichardKenner
On the other hand, it's also clearly not possible for security reasons for TSA choose the extent of screening based on a passenger's stated abilities exactly because of the above. So the passenger's statement of disabilities affects only the mechanism of screening. I think we all agree that this is the way the system is supposed to work and that it's proper.
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Why would we be agreed on this? Clearly, if you have a 85-year old barely moving in a walker, or an emaciated man in a wheelchair, those are things that can be easily verified apart from the pax's statement. People like this represent much less of a risk and the protocols for them should reflect this.
It's also clear that the system does work as designed in the vast majority of the cases.
numbers please? also, isn't the design precisely is what is being disputed? That you are so concerned about theoretical possibilities that you subject 90 year olds in wheelchairs to rigorous and invasive screening despite the very low likelihood of them being a threat.
NOBODY should have their private parts touched absent probable cause, much less a demographic that is leaps and bounds the least likely to be a problem.