Alaska Bill Would Criminalize Invasive TSA Pat Downs

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Kasz216 said:

You know, i never really had that big of an issue with the TSA pat-downs.

Now the various people they have to administer it to due to "perceived fairness" that's another issue.

When you have to pat down a 4 year old or a 97 year old woman that's never left the country, you've kinda forgotten that there is a big difference between "Racial Profiling" and "Profiling" which does sometimes include race, sex and gender... because some crimes are VERY disproportionately committed by certain races, sexes and genders... and ages for that matter. (And yes, I do mean to have sexes and genders separate... there is a difference.)

Actually as I recall, there is a law banning transgender people from flying that just passed in Canada.  Which doesn't make any kind of sense really.

On the topic of the TSA ...

I (personally) believe that the pat-downs and body scanners are mostly just a big show. I suspect the real security uses profiling to determine likely terrorists long before they get anywhere near an airport; but highly effective invisible security doesn't make people believe that you're keeping them safe.

 

On the transgendered flying ...

I don't really believe the intention was to prevent transgendered people from flying, and the real intent was ensuring that people's identification matched who they were presenting themselves as. I suspect this is really a reaction to how Islamic terrorists have been known to wear burkas to hide in plain sight.