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Lisbon, Portugal (CNN) -- President Barack Obama stood by new controversial screening measures Saturday, calling methods such as pat-downs and body scans necessary to assure airline safety.
Speaking at a NATO press conference in Lisbon, Portugal, the president called the balance between protecting travelers' rights and their security a "tough situation."
Per the new rules, travelers may be subject to full-body scans at 400 such machines in 69 airports nationwide. Those who voluntarily opt out -- as well as those who set off a scanning machine or a metal detector -- are subject to a pat-down. Some travelers have likened the pat-downs to groping.
The president said such methods are needed after what happened December 25, 2009, when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab of Nigeria allegedly boarded a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit with a bomb hidden in his underwear. Abdulmutallab reportedly failed to set off the bomb, which metal detectors didn't detect, though his attempt led to airport screening procedures that have caused a holiday travel uproar.
"At this point, the Transportation Security Administration, in consultation with our counterterrorism experts, have indicated to me that the procedures that they've been putting in place are the only ones right now that they consider to be effective against the kind of threat that we saw in the Christmas Day bombing," said Obama.
The safety and well-being of America cannot be assured until the powerful Hand of the Government rests firmly upon the genitals of the entirety of it's people.
The president said such methods are needed after what happened December 25, 2009, when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab of Nigeria allegedly boarded a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit with a bomb hidden in his underwear. Abdulmutallab reportedly failed to set off the bomb, which metal detectors didn't detect, though his attempt led to airport screening procedures that have caused a holiday travel uproar.
If it's not written on the teleprompter Obama can't respond.
Israel has a system that works but because we have allowed the Liberals and their political correct BS to take over we have to put up with Janet Napolitano's please touch me in places non Homosexuals would never touch me in policies.
•Swabs are taken of carry-on luggage and examined using hi-tech bomb sniffers
•Hi-tech liquid explosive detecting devices on passengers’ personal belongings both check in and carry-on
•Checked luggage is stored in a secure room that's constantly guarded by El Al personnel
•All baggage and cargo also go through a decompression chamber on the ground (simulates pressure in the cargo compartment during flight to test for bombs set to go off at high altitudes)
To play devil's advocate, if the TSA were to end the pat-downs tomorrow what would stand in the way of a repeat of the Christmas Bomber?
if he put an end to the screenings, and someone got through and blew up a plane, then he would hear how he didnt do enough to prevent it...a lose lose situationOk Obama. You lost me here. You're actually suggesting that I'm gonna be safer travelling as long as some security dude can touch my balls.
**** that.
You're telling me that there's not one TSA agent that's gonna get a ****ing stiffy from feeling up me, or my mom or anybody else for that matter, it's ****ing rediculous and indefensible.
Since when did it become Ok to say
"you've bought a plane ticket, now bend over, and we're gonna get to do with you what we want".
No son of a bitch is touching my junk.
All your howling during the campaign about how bad it was under Bush in terms of personal privacy and you're defending this rubbish.
To play devil's advocate, if the TSA were to end the pat-downs tomorrow what would stand in the way of a repeat of the Christmas Bomber?
To play devil's advocate, if the TSA were to end the pat-downs tomorrow what would stand in the way of a repeat of the Christmas Bomber?
Remember how I'd always say "I voted for change and I got Bush III?"
This is what I'm talking about. For 9 years now we've been slowly forced to accept more and more harassment and intrusion from the agencies who are supposedly there to protect us. And we keep accepting it. I've talked to co-workers whose response is "well, it keeps us safe."
What? That's it? No questions? Jesus, people. The TSA has virtually no oversight. Congress gives them everything they want because to do otherwise is to give your opponent the "OPENED THE DOORS TO TERRORISTSSSSS" attack ad. And we've gone along with it. People who vote against the TSA get voted out of office. The sole senator to vote against the PATRIOT act got voted out of office.
The really sad part? The terrorists who hate us probably don't even care about airplanes anymore. They've done the damage there, they're switching to other tactics. Mailing bombs via UPS costs them almost nothing, but we're going to end up with massive mail screening procedures I bet. Then what? They blow up one bus, and suddenly the TSA is at every intercity bus hub.
My future travel predictions:
Naked, handcuffed, and sedated. Don't think it wont ****in happen.
You voted for an ultra-Liberal president and that's exactly what you got.
Profiling is illegal and that's the way you want it. It's profling to target an African Muslim, whose name is on the no-fly list and paid for a one-way ticket, with cash and didn't have any luggage. That wasn't enough evidence for them to decided that he didn't need to board an aircraft. Instead, they insist that if they had played with his sack for a few minutes, they would have caught him red-handed.
To play devil's advocate, if the TSA were to end the pat-downs tomorrow what would stand in the way of a repeat of the Christmas Bomber?
How do you knew Deuce voted for Obama?
Gimme' a break! Ok?
You voted for an ultra-Liberal president and that's exactly what you got.
Profiling is illegal and that's the way you want it. It's profling to target an African Muslim, whose name is on the no-fly list and paid for a one-way ticket, with cash and didn't have any luggage. That wasn't enough evidence for them to decided that he didn't need to board an aircraft. Instead, they insist that if they had played with his sack for a few minutes, they would have caught him red-handed.
No, it's racial profiling to target someone for having brown skin.
I don't think I've ever heard a liberal speak out against psychological profiling or behavioral profiling.
Obama isn't ultra-liberal. You, and many conservatives these days, are just incapable of telling the difference between "I think we should keep the feds involved in education" and "COMMUNISM FOR ALL! MUAHAHAH!"
Was SNL ever on the TSA's side!?
Was SNL ever on the TSA's side!?
if he put an end to the screenings, and someone got through and blew up a plane, then he would hear how he didnt do enough to prevent it.
There is a difference between opposing, and wanting to end, particular types of screening and ending ALL screening - the FORMER being what the opposition of these pat downs and body scanners are, and the latter being a convinient straw man that started out as a simple misunderstanding but seem to be increasingly used by Pistole and their ilk to slander those opposed to the patdowns and body scanners.
WE. DON'T. OPPOSE. HAVING. SCREENING. IN. GENERAL.
We just oppose the un-necessarily intrusive and un-effective.
[And last I checked, one could oppose particular methods of screening and still support having some form of screening in place]
Geraldo interviewed the former head of El Al security. He said the scanners is all bull**** and a waste of money. He said trained security and profiling is the answer. That means concentrating on those individuals that come from countries that hate America.
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