Officials consider adjustments to airport security after passengers and pilots complain about

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rigorous checkpoints even after background checks

By Jeremy Pelofsky, Reuters / November 16, 2010
ARLINGTON, Virginia

With the busy holiday travel season about to begin, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano made it clear that new full-body scan checks would become the routine as hundreds of the machines are installed at U.S. airports and that the alternative would be physical patdowns.

"If there are adjustments we need to make to these procedures as we move forward, we have an open ear; we will listen," she told reporters during a news conference at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ...

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2010/1116/Officials-consider-adjustments-to-airport-security-after-passengers-and-pilots-complain-about-rigorous-checkpoints-even-after-background-checks

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Ok let me translate the bureocratese

we are shocked at the backlash and we may (will) have to change our procedures or face the Airlines...

This is a little different from... everybody needs to lear their place crap that she was taking about yesterday.

Yes, learning to understand bureocratese is a well honed art, and necessary. Keep the pressure.

[RandomThoughts]

2. LOL, restriction of ability to travel for anyone that believes in civil rights.

A common use of a tyrannical state. Travel restrictions have always been a main part of oppression.

So if you do not submit to humiliation, that makes the government look like crap, while making people in America look like spineless cowards, then you can't take a plane ride.


LOL.


Maybe that is a win for b room flight :D


Guess the cowards should have had some spine and stopped them when they started the no fly lists, if you let tyranny have power, they will keep making it worse.