How can Privacy vs Security be resolved with the TSA? (the "don't touch my junk" issue)?

Question

The "don't touch my junk" story just adds more fuel to an already very controversial issue-- privacy vs security in a post 9-11 world. I think the full body scans & intrusive pat-downs are extreme and invade privacy and rights + radiation concerns + the gov't shouldn't be able to break the law under the name of security. At the same time, I don't want to be negligent of another terrorist attack.

Any ideas on how this can be resolved in a way which would leave both parties satisfied?

Answer 1

The pat-downs and scanners do not work, it has been proven. They only provide a false sense of security. If I were shove a bomb up my rectum, do you think TSA would find it with their current security? If TSA would simply adopt the methods that do work, there would be no issue. Having people answer quick question before someone trained to detect lies or suspicion actions, hiring trained people to be on the look out for suspicious activity as well as going undercover, using bomb sniffing dogs and computers, and profiling. Even though people complain about the profiling as well, it needs to be done, but even if you were to do without the profiling, every other method I just listed is already way more effective than what the TSA is currently doing.

Answer 2

TSA is nothing more than security theater. They accomplish nothing. If a terrorist wants to take down an airplane, it can do it in 10,000 different ways, none of which are being screened for. It is time to take a stand.

Answer 3

It CANNOT be resolved in a way which would leave both parties satisfied.

100% of Democrats demand time and manpower be used to harass NON-threats INSTEAD of addressing security.

Answer 4

We pay for our freedoms, always have and always will (sometimes in human costs). How many people die in car wrecks every year for our right to drive cars? How many people die by gun accidents for our right to own guns?



Yet somehow people are willing to give-up our rights not to be unlawfully searched and to have our children molested because of "terrorism"? Please...I'd rather accept the possiblity that our freedoms could have consequences than to erase those freedoms.

Answer 5

As long as they don't touch my Cocoa Puffs I don't care what they touch