US steps up air travel security measures

[Puffin13]

US steps up air travel security measures
2 April 2010

The United States has unveiled new security plans to subject all US-bound plane passengers to screening methods that use real-time intelligence to target potential threats.

Under the new set-up, passenger data will be checked against data provided by intelligence services, including an existing list of 6000 potential terrorists. Passengers will be screened for nationality, age and recently visited countries.

US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the measures have been introduced in the wake of the botched Christmas Day plane bombing, blamed on a young Nigerian en route from Amsterdam to Detroit. It later emerged that existing data could have helped prevent the failed attempt.

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[Pauli Wallnuts]

why not just ban air travel alltogether how long till they claim that we have to be handcuffed to the seats for our own protection?

[Uncle Ron]

These so called "new" measures were recommended before 9/11 but never implemented because they were/are considered profiling. In the US, profiling is considered racist, very non-PC. I always believed in the adage that if it looks, smells, and sounds like a pig, it's a pig. My growing concern is that the pig is adapting and finding other ways to disguise himself.
Peace.

[hardboiled]

the pig always has adapted, and the pig always will adapt.

Freedom never disappears all at once. It is a slow lockdown that starts with the money, and works backwards to control.

[cantona7]

i think only israel has tighter security than us. i'm not comfortable with it but at the same time not overly bothered as i don't have anything to hide.

[USbongLord]

fuck em....now im def tellin my ride to be an hour late...must buy underwear