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ORIGINAL: kittinSol
Such a wonderful opportunity to let perverts find fulfillment in their line of work, isn't it ?

It's too late for me, they should have told me sooner, I've now branched off into another line of work altogether.

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ORIGINAL: CalifChick

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop
I thought they'd already done this at Tampa

There were trials of the equipment conducted at a small number of airports using one or two screening stations at each airport.

I think they need some corrections to their story.  They said:  An experimental program that begins today at Tulsa International Airport will test whether the $170,000 body scanners could replace $10,000 metal detectors that have screened airline passengers since 1973. Airports in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami, Albuquerque and Salt Lake City will join the test in the next two months, TSA spokesman Christopher White said.
 
As GT said, this is not new.  And Las Vegas has had the scanners for some time now; I saw them in use last July when I flew thru there.  There were other airports with them as well.

What makes this "experimental program that begins today" any different than the experimental program already in place at some airports??


Cali

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

It's just another "feel good" measure. 

Passengers are subjected to intrusive searches to provide the illusion of safety.

Yet, while all passengers airlines carry cargo, cargo exclusive of passenger baggage, none of that cargo has been subject to screening until recently.

Which begs the question, If you want to blow up an airplane would you be trying to smuggle explosives on board or would you just put them in a box and ship them as freight on that airplane?

Even now, the new rules only allow for screening of 50% of cargo with 100 % scheduled for August 2010.  Nine years after 9/11.

The reason?  The bottom line of profit, as always.  Business groups have lobbied long and hard against these new rules.

And even now businesses are bemoaning the impending regulations:



New air cargo screening rules looming, shippers brace for impactAug 28, 2008 ... Passenger airlines fear the impact new regulations for screening cargo will have on their bottom lines. Transporting cargo accounts for ...
news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=98411 - 26k


The plan, which is expected to cost the cargo industry between $3 billion and $4 billion over the next 10 years, essentially leaves shippers such as Flynn with two options: purchase costly screening equipment, or hope for the best.

“It’s absolutely tragic,” Flynn said. “It will destroy the industry and put thousands of people out of work.”

The new guidelines, which were signed into law last August following the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, will require the screening of 50 percent of all cargo transported on passenger aircraft by February 2009. By August of 2010, 100 percent of the 6 billion pounds worth of cargo transported on passenger planes will have to be screened.

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

And going on eight years after 9/11 that Mexican border is still wide open.