Fear can make us do strange things and put up with even more stranger things. I have several blogs on airport security- but this is the only one by Ken Davis I think. Mike Huckabee shared the following news story on his show today- You can only file this under humor- except I have a special label just for Ken Davis and Mark Lowry. I think there are several airport security blogs filed under humor.
Aug 14 2012- TSA Fail- Mike Huckabee
Here’s a story to think about the next time the TSA is groping your body and confiscating your shampoo. The New York Post reports that the city spent $100 million on a state-of-the-art security system for JFK Airport called the Perimeter Intrusion Detection System, or PIDS. But all its cameras and motion sensors were too piddling to catch Daniel Casillo. He was jet-skiing in Jamaica Bay around dusk when his ride sank. He started swimming for the only lights he could see. They were from JFK’s Runway 4. He made it to land, climbed the security fence, walked across two runways in a bright yellow life jacket, right through the PIDS system, and into Terminal 3. He was walking up to the Delta counter for help when security finally grabbed him. He’s charged with criminal trespass. Authorities may say he has a lot of questions to answer…but I’d say, so do they.
TSA quietly removing some full body scanners
CHICAGO The federal government is quietly removing full-body X-ray scanners from seven major airports and replacing them with a different type of machine that produces a cartoon-like outline instead of the naked images that have been compared to a virtual strip search.
The Transportation Security Administration says it is making the switch in technology to speed up lines at crowded airports, not to ease passenger privacy concerns. But civil liberties groups hope the change signals that the equipment will eventually go to the scrap heap.
"Hopefully this represents the beginning of a phase-out of the X-ray-type scanners, which are more privacy intrusive and continue to be surrounded by health questions," said Jay Stanley, a privacy expert at the American Civil Liberties Union.
TSA removing x-ray machines from airports.The machines will not be retired. They are being moved to smaller airports while Congress presses the TSA to adopt stronger privacy safeguards on all of its imaging equipment.
In the two years since they first appeared at the nation's busiest airports, the "backscatter" model of scanner has been the focus of protests and lawsuits because it uses X-rays to peer beneath travelers' clothing.
The machines are being pulled out of New York's LaGuardia and Kennedy airports, Chicago's O'Hare, Los Angeles International and Boston Logan, as well as airports in Charlotte, N.C., and Orlando, Fla.
The TSA would not comment on whether it planned to remove machines from any other locations
Yet more potential evidence that the 2012 presidential campaign is already upon us.
Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and Fox News personality, has dared President Obama to motorcade to Washington Reagan National Airport with the First Family and have the Obamas submit to one of those very controversial airport pat-down inspection.
Huckabee made his interesting suggestion on Fox and Friends. Huckabee apparently believes that profiling would be a better way to go.
National Journal reports:
"If he thinks this is an appropriate way for us to deal with security as he has defended, then I've said, 'OK, Mr. Obama, take your wife, your two daughters and your mother-in-law to Washington Reagan National Airport and have them publicly go through both the body scanner and the full enhanced pat-down in front of others,'" Huckabee said in an interview on Fox and Friends. "'If it's OK for your wife, your daughters, and your mother-in-law, then maybe the rest of us won't feel so bad when our wives, our daughters and our mothers are being put through this humiliating and degrading, totally unconstitutional, intrusion of their privacy.'"
Huckabee's dare to the president is certainly dramatic though it's unlikely to happen
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