USA Today on Elite Security Lines
Aug 29, 2006 | 9:15 pm
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I don't understand why the papers get upset by these elite lines. If anything, it's very American to differentiate among people based on what they pay! I guess we just have to get use to reading these articles, again and again and again! 
Aug 29, 2006 | 9:23 pm
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Originally Posted by ContinentalFan
I don't understand why the papers get upset by these elite lines. If anything, it's very American to differentiate among people based on what they pay! I guess we just have to get use to reading these articles, again and again and again!
Egalitarian society - ha!
Aug 29, 2006 | 9:44 pm
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Originally Posted by bnarayan1511
The sad part is, I will bet you any money that this exact segment will 100% favor extra screening for middle-eastern/Arab males.
Egalitarian society - ha!
Egalitarian society - ha!
Although perhaps a reasonably safe bet:
http://tinyurl.com/pt4nq
http://tinyurl.com/ozcd8
Aug 29, 2006 | 10:01 pm
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Originally Posted by Fredd
You're not stereotyping, are you?
Although perhaps a reasonably safe bet:
http://tinyurl.com/pt4nq
http://tinyurl.com/ozcd8
Although perhaps a reasonably safe bet:
http://tinyurl.com/pt4nq
http://tinyurl.com/ozcd8
Aug 29, 2006 | 11:20 pm
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Originally Posted by SNA_Flyer
The Registered Traveller Program is nothing but a big scam. So I give up a bunch of personal info, pay $100, and get to stand in a shorter line, but still have to take my shoes off, etc? What a crock.
I can stand in a shorter line as an elite at most of the airports I travel through. I don't need registered traveller.
I can stand in a shorter line as an elite at most of the airports I travel through. I don't need registered traveller.
Aug 31, 2006 | 7:31 am
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Originally Posted by ContinentalFan
If anything, it's very American to differentiate among people based on what they pay!
Aug 31, 2006 | 7:43 am
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Well, certainly if they sorted the passengers according to their frequency of flight you'd get people who know how to take their laptops out, their coats/shoes off, and the freaking keys ouf of their pockets.
Also, if you put all non-citizens in a special line (like customs, natch) you could probably get 80% of the value of profiling without having a three finger exam from the reality deniers at CAIR/ACLU/etc.
Also, if you put all non-citizens in a special line (like customs, natch) you could probably get 80% of the value of profiling without having a three finger exam from the reality deniers at CAIR/ACLU/etc.
Aug 31, 2006 | 8:37 am
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Egads! Good thing I kept a copy of the nastygram I sent the Washington Post after their buffoonish complaint about 'elite security' at airports a few weeks back.
Does anyone know how to contact the reporter for this article (and their editor) so I can send my letter and get in some 'fair and balanced' (sorry) commentary?
Does anyone know how to contact the reporter for this article (and their editor) so I can send my letter and get in some 'fair and balanced' (sorry) commentary?
Aug 31, 2006 | 9:50 am
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Originally Posted by last_minute
...but we all pay the same security fee, and the screeners work for the feds. Elite lines seem fishy to me.
Case closed.
Aug 31, 2006 | 9:53 am
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Originally Posted by TierFlyer
Also, if you put all non-citizens in a special line (like customs, natch) you could probably get 80% of the value of profiling without having a three finger exam from the reality deniers at CAIR/ACLU/etc.
That is a great suggestion!
Sep 1, 2006 | 4:35 am
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Originally Posted by bocastephen
Egads! Good thing I kept a copy of the nastygram I sent the Washington Post after their buffoonish complaint about 'elite security' at airports a few weeks back.
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Does anyone know how to contact the reporter for this article (and their editor) so I can send my letter and get in some 'fair and balanced' (sorry) commentary?
OMNI: Interesting, here's his bio from March 2003.
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