Originally Posted by bocastephen
The look of the woman in the article is priceless
However, this is unacceptable:
According to Naccara, the SPOT program has resulted in the arrest of more than 50 people for having fake IDs, entering the country illegally or drug possession.
None of the above have anything to do with aviation safety or security.
Some sheeple will go along with this, but I am going to suspect about 10-15% of people, already fed up with the TSA, will return very hostile answers to these questions. Whereas I am not going to be rude to a screener who asks me questions, I am not going to answer - my answers will be fairly standard: "sorry, but that is not your concern and I am not going to answer your questions"
If I am sent to a LEO for interrogation for refusing to answer, I will be contacting the ACLU and I expect them to persue this...if they don't step up to the plate this time, they have become a useless organization and we need new people on the scene who are willing to stand up for privacy and liberty.
A big
to this...we need to clean this "SPOT" up.
Yes you are right the look is priceless.
As for catching the fake ID's, drug runners, they actually have something to do with security, but absolutelynothing to do with aviation security. Catching these folks belongs to the province of law enforcment.
As for the questions, when are they actually going to do the questioning. Is this when I step up to the WTMD. Hmmm. maybe I will play mute, or claim laringitus. Of course I just could claim my 5th Amendment, that should be fun. Or maybe a lawyer or two could set up shop at the airport, and for everyone who is pulled aside asks for a lawyer, they have to stop the questioning until he/she gets there.
This may be part of what the rumor I have heard about the possible end of the SSSS program. Resulting in complete randomness at the checkpoint with the watchlist acting as a buffer to catch the "bad people" at checkin.
Of course what I would like to do with this is to take Spot and leave a spot on their SPOT.