Wimpie

An open letter to ExpressJet Airlines CEO ^

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gi...8&id=611130401

tom911

I don't have a Facebook account. Can you highlight some of what is posted on the link you provided?

Combat Medic

And I'm saying that you should have to prove what you say it is. Where's the problem?

star_world

Prove that I don't think it's a naked body. Care to elaborate on how one might do such a thing?

Combat Medic

Provide full resolution images exactly as a TSO sees them.

star_world

How would I have such images? I don't work in the industry or have any association with the TSA. I'm telling you what I've seen - my personal experience. That isn't saved on my computer as a jpeg image.

At the end of the day I'm telling you, having looked at plenty of these images, that I don't believe that they are "nude" images or "pornography" or whatever hyperbolic nonsense they're being called today on this board. You can either agree or disagree with that opinion, but telling me that it is factually wrong is just not possible.

Travelsonic

How do you know you're getting the real deal - especially enough to matter-of-factually dismiss the claims made in opposition to the idea that we are getting the real deal?

PTravel

Apparently, the UK government disagreed with your opinion:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz0bl6GB9Ts

flyingron

Rosa was already in the back (colored) section of the bus. What she was told to do by the driver was to give up her seat to the white passenger. This was even contrary to the existing (racist) laws of the time. The law said that blacks only had to move back if there was a seat to move back to. Still Parks was arrested when she refused to stand and charged with this statute:

, and it shall be unlawful for any passenger to refuse or fail to take a seat among those assigned to the race to which he belongs, at the request of any such employee in charge, if there is such a seat vacant

While I don't equate racial discrimination with the injustice of the loss of civil liberties in the security theater, the analogy is somehow appropriate.

As for your assertion that Parks was a habitual violator of the race segregation, it would appear that NOT to be the case. The only noted incident prior was one where while doing the required "pay your fare up front and then go out and reboard through the rear doors" she sat briefly to retrieve her dropped purse which enraged the same driver who she would face on the subsequent incident (though neither apparently recognized each other from the earlier incident).
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FliesWay2Much

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8830/4.5.0.138 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105)

I'm in Germany this week wondering why we can't strike like the French. Imagine if all the airline pilots rose at once to support him? Our country used to be like that....

Combat Medic

OK....so, you don't work in the industry or have any association with the TSA.
Then, how can you tell me with the certainty needed to say:
"I'm not debating what the TSO can actually see. I'm debating what it is."
If you have never seen the image that a TSO can see? Just because you got to see the same general technology a few years ago in another country?

tom911

Did the TSA give you a tour while someone was going through the new equipment? How would I get to see the same monitor view that you've seen?

halls120

Unlike some others who post on this board, I've seen WBI's in actual use screening people at an airport. The screen shots I saw were much more detailed than the foggy images TSA would like us to believe they are looking at.

Carnage

How odd, because all the ones I've seen in the UK look pretty much like the ones issued for publicity.

FriendlySkies

+1

Remember the CBS News report on TSA? Kippie took the CBS reporter into the "imaging" room, and they showed the pics from the monitor. Obviously, the buttons to invert and zoom were not used during the interview..