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Old Nov 28, 2004 | 5:34 pm
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GradGirl
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally Posted by jimstl
Lots of complaints, what about ideas... What are we willing to put up with to be safe?
I'm willing to go back to pre-9/11 searches. The new ones make us a whole lot less safe. I'm willing to let my bag be searched but they should have to have an LEO present to touch my body.

I am willing to put up with a lot IF they do it to everyone. It's blatantly counterproductive to harass some people more than others: the bad guys can game that system to guarantee themselves the minimal search possible (MIT carnival booth paper). Ergo, only innocent travelers will ever be subjected to super-screening. If TSA were grabbing the breasts of every female traveller through the checkpoint, then (A) the screaming would already have reached a pitch loud enough to make things change, and (B) they'd have to ask Congress for more money and more people to do it. Therefore, I assume that TSA would have to scale back to something reasonable if they were required to apply the same search methods to everyone.
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