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At the risk of further reinforcing some prejudices, the security personal working for CATSA (the Canadian version) aren't government employees. They come from private security companies that are contracted by CATSA. CATSA itself isn't even a government agency, it's a Crown corporation (which is Canadianese for a privately owned company wholly owned by the government).
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She basically told Kiran to "profile me", in as far as airport security goes, because since all terrorists are muslim, then all muslims are terrorists, and its the only way to prove to the American Establishment that they aren't?
At least that was the gist of it.
The goose was muslim, I'm not sure of her nationality (she looked a bit persian and a bit arab).
Kiran was not having it.
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Because it is excessively racist, and not only that, it is systematized racism.
And please cite evidence to me how profiling has been proven to work over not profiling.
Profiling in it's pure form may not be bad.
Racial profiling is, because we've had a shitload of problems with it. Besides being an open door for a racist in the system to make people he dislikes miserable with a badge, it also means that "random white dude" will never be outraged about the procedures because they never see them.
Now, profiling based on behavior in the airport? Okay! That guy walking around looking nervous may need a trained officer to go ask if he needs help with something, so he can both help out and gauge the response. Much better than "strip search every fifth person, that's effective!"
edit: it's worth noting that the police had to institute a system of logging EVERY contact they make with civilians, to make sure subtle racial biases were not impacting their choice of who looked suspicious. The TSA needs to do this as well.
Because racial profiling lets the TSA mall cops implement non-discriminatory policies in a discriminatory way? There's no reason for an agent to pull me out of line when I'm standing there, minding my own business, solely because I'm brown. Racial profiling lets racist TSA agents exercise their prejudices against people whose skin color they don't like.
Behavior profiling is a-okay, though.
Another reason against racial profiling is that there are quite a few "white" arabs, meaning, white enough to seem just like another American. A well groomed Levantine can pass as just a normal white guy. Suddenly racial profiling doesn't work.
Example: 9/11 terrorists did not have beards.
Which is really interesting when you consider the number of domestic terrorist attacks that were carried out by... wait for it... white people.
"practicing homosexual"
This is probably true, one way or another. Either it will get all get blown away by some sort of reform, or (more likely) the public outcry will just disappear in the face of the next horrible thing. I mean, remember that whole oil in the gulf thing? Yeah, neither does the media. I hope it's gone by June, for selfish personal reasons.
There was at least one article whose author mentioned that as a police officer she has to write down everything that happens everywhere, and noticed that no one at the security checkpoint was writing anything at all.
I'd honestly say that I'd prefer a random number generator with no human discretion, though. I feel like allowing the TSA to look for suspicious people negatively impacts overall security. It takes the attention away from thorough search and security of every person selected for screening and puts it on playing a guessing game. It also allows you to go through security more easily if you're certain to not display any outward flags. I cut my hair short and I get no security, I wear it long and I get a "random search". It's too easy to bypass.
There's also the fact that allowing them to choose who to search doesn't necessarily mean they'll search suspicious people, it likely means they'll search easy targets and people who make things look more random.
Not that, I suppose, the computer telling you to search XYZ makes you care that much. But it's better than "oh oh, I'll search that kindly looking grandma because well she won't complain and she's totally not a terrorist."
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just to be safe, mandate that women only be searched by male agents.
That'll show those practicing homosexuals.
Yeah!...wait
What the dick? Better make it two, just so the other one doesn't do anything sneaky while the one is watching.
:? @ the fact that it took them that long to realize it. Seems to me a better solution would be to fire three people and hire one person at the salary of those 3 people that has a brain and isn't on a power trip to observe passengers going through the checkpoint.
Without such training, "suspicious" is going to end up being people who aren't sufficiently light- or dark-skinned and hot chicks whose rack you want to grope.
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Already happened.
Everything else aside my experiences with TSA have actually been very positive. The only assholes I've ever dealt with were the TSA people at Logan International. Since the 9/11 flights flew out of Logan I could see why they were harsher on people than my own local airport. Plus its Boston so people are just allowed to be jerks.
Flying in from Japan to O'Hare in Chicago was surprising. A bomb dog took a lot of notice in my backpack (I was terrified because I had a hash pipe in said backpack) but the TSA lady was super nice and just kept going. Then going through the x-ray bit the lady looking at my bag hit the big red button and shouted, "BAGGAGE CHECK" and once again my asshole puckered. The man going through my bag was extremely courteous. I informed him that I had a tea set from the ming dynasty that I brought back from China as a gift. I've never seen anyone be so careful and respectful especially in an airport. He opened it and poked around and said, "this is probably what set her off on a baggage check." He let me put everything back in my bag and I got through. Never found the hash pipe to my relief.
And of Muslim terrorists who aren't brown.
My assumption was that a dog in an airport is trained to find anything. It was a beagle and had a jacket/vest on it. I forget what was written on the vest but I'm pretty sure it had something to do with bombs. We were waiting to pick up luggage and the lady with the dog circled around the place three times. The third time the dog got wrapped up in my mate's legs between he and the backpack. She gently pulled the dog away, apologized to us, and went on. The entire time I was shitting myself. Regardless she was very nice and courteous.
Private planes don't get searched.
And that's not even a joke, private planes aren't under the TSA's jurisdiction so no one on those gets searched the same way they do on commercial flights.
Profiling on skin color is incredibly stupid.
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It was really dumb but I didn't do it on purpose. I had two of them and I thought when I tossed one the other was with it. It was not. I got through security in Hong Kong and Japan and they never found it. I discovered it in a small side pocket on the plane to Chicago. I was too afraid to leave it on the plane so I thought as soon as we get off the plane I'll find a bathroom and just trash it. Except there are no bathrooms until you get through security. I couldn't believe how it turned out especially since the pipe was loaded.
The worst part is when I got home I almost immediately dropped the damn thing and broke it.
That article is ridiculous. The woman "Claims" that TSA dudes pulled her for secondary screening because she was hawt and they were totes staring at her bewbs, but conveniently leaves out the fact that dudes don't even do the secondary screenings on women and vice versa.
Terrible journalism, I tell ya.
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To go on a private plane?
You go up to the plane and get on the plane. You don't even go in the same terminal. The airport baggage handlers never touch your luggage. I'm not sure if it has changed since, but as late as 2009, the DHS in the US wasn't screening people on private planes against the terror watch list. The last time I was on one (though to add a caveat, this is in Canada), we were driven up next to the plane and got on to the plane with our bags. The only security measure is that, if the plane I was on had been going to the US, we would have gone through customs.
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The dudes watched the screening. There is a better version of that article out there. I originally read that 2 days ago on google news from another source. I wouldn't trust the Daily Mail.
Sounds like there will be a higher demand in the Scoundrel Charter Transport Pilot market soon.
This neo-feudalism would be more tolerable if our betters had fancy titles.
sounds like they got him
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