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Who, as opposed to what, gets on the plane

The El Al security system is far less intrusive than the TSA one (there is no groin grope or X-Ray machine), and it works just fine.

Because, unlike the feds, El Al is not concerned with political correctness, only safety.

Michael Totten, who gets profiled every time he flies through Tel Aviv, explains how Israel does it:

By eschewing the “Security Theater” approach, which is to always fight the last “war,” i.e. remove your shoes, bring no shampoo, let them grope your underwear, etc.

Despite that Al Q never strikes the same way twice, the Feds always do.

(I’m hoping to experience the Israeli Way when I fly to Tel Aviv in the spring.)

Meanwhile, Thomas Sowell sees more of Obamalot’s disdain for America here:

“If anything good comes out of the airport ‘security’ outrages, it may be in opening the eyes of more people to the utter contempt that this administration has for the American people.”

Still more from Instapundit, who thinks the flying public’s anger over TSA’s groin grope is far from over.

Because, for one thing, Obamalot is considering exempting Muslim women.

UPDATE:  Meanwhile, the federal bigs are breezing right on through. No scan or grope for them. And no surprise, either.

Bush’s war?

Not hardly, according to 73 percent of respondents to a recent British poll in the UK published in the Guardian on Thursday. This is post-airplane plot discovered. Forty-four percent think this war will last more than 20 years. I’d say that’s optomistic. Fifty-five percent favor passenger profiling. Of course, law enforcement already is passenger profiling. They’re just not talking about it, in my view, and calling everybody else and his two-year-old out of the line to cover themselves.

Via Buzzmachine 

Then, just two days later, look what happens aboard a passenger jet returning Brits from holiday.

"British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny – refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed. The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic."

It gets damn claustrophobic in many passenger jets, people all crammed together like cattle. Curiosity, laughter, and surely fear can ripple down the seat files like an exotic bovine infection.