<p>i love how people think a non-detailed, temporary image of them “naked” is worse than racial profiling</p>
<p>I do agree on the political correctness thing though. Especially with the Fort Hood jihadist. I remember back when some white police officer arrested a black Harvard professor and Obama called him racist… then this jihadist shoots his brothers and sisters in arms, and he says we “shouldn’t jump to conclusions” haha… please. To call the Fort Hood shooting anything less than treason is lunacy.</p>
<p>Even though it states that on the website, all the supervisors at every airport read the policy differently. Being a member on a frequent flier forum that has actual TSA officers answer questions regarding the policies, I’ve read multiple posts saying that it is not enforced in some airports. The directives have been “try to make the people put their shoes on the belt” not “make it mandatory”. At my nearby airport which is EWR, I’ve never had this problem before. The x-ray machines are known to basically “eat” your shoes and can damage it. It’s your choice if you want to have your shoes damaged and not get compensation back.</p>
<p>The FBI really dropped the ball on that one. DHS was all over tea party protestors while a guy who openly talked about extremist Islam, was considered by his contemporaries to be “the kind of guy you wouldn’t want in a foxhole with you”, and was even under FBI surveillance was given free reign to kill 13 soldiers and 1 unborn child. </p>
<p>That’s not so much racial profiling as extremist profiling. If a guy is talking about extremist Islam (or any religion, although frankly Islam has been the major extremely-interpreted religion this decade) and how he is a “muslim first, American second” and stuff like that… well he ought to be taken to a back room for some questioning, political correctness be damned.</p>
<p>I have a question - why on earth are we not allowed to move around for the last hour of flight? If all the Delta passengers had stayed in their seats as we all will now have to do, the plane would have blown up.</p>
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That can’t be right - Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport (where I believe he boarded his flight) has security at the gates. I’ve flown (multiple times) to Amsterdam from the US and caught a connecting flight on to another country and every time, I’ve had to go through security at the gate. If you enter Schiphol from the Netherlands, there is no security to get into the airport itself.</p>
<p>It sounds more like security theater to me. A terrorist will just blow the plane up two hours before landing.</p>
<p>What baffles me is that this guy was on one of the watchlists (the lowest tier, according to CNN… there are four tiers, with only one always resulting in additional screening and only one being the no-fly list) and yet they let him in without blinking an eye. Frankly I think if they’re on a watchlist they should be forced to undergo additional screening.</p>
<p>I fly all the time and this is why this is annoying… (I fly across the world 2 times a year and several domestic flights throughout the year) I carry around alot of stuff so when they got rid of free check in baggage, that was bad… and when they limit my carry on bag… urgh… I like to read on the plane but I guess I’ll just take a nap or something before landing. :/</p>
<p>So glad the terrorist attempt was stopped by some brave people on the flight though :)</p>
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THANK You. Doctors and some random people who works at the airport totally different for me (esp because the latter half tend to annoy me alot more) and I don’t like taking my clothes off for the doctor either (maybe some female doctors… urgh I’m a prude leave me alone.)</p>
<p>Also why are people talking about flying and having their personal carryons in march or whenever ago? This came into effect like this week so unless you flew this week… uhh. I flew several days before xmas and was allowed 2 carry ons but obvious that has changed.</p>
<p>I know. There needs to be some sort of notification system for the airlines. If they’re checking a person who’s name is on a watch list to a flight that ultimately leads to him being in the USA, they need to take appropriate measures.</p>
<p>Keasbey Nights, when you have your shoes on the conveyor belt and it is during the peak hours then your shoes have a very high chance of being damaged. If you travel more, you will notice that long lines for a x-ray machine create a very clumped up line of bins and other items as sneakers on the conveyor belt. When the people push the button for the belt to go back and forward and back and forward to reinspect a bin or whatever it causes the items to hit the other items next to it. On my recent trip to Indianapolis from Providence, I saw another passenger’s sneakers which came out upside down and didn’t come out the way it was put in since the inspector kept changing the direction the belt was going since there were suitcases in between his sneakers that were those of other passengers. You may not believe me, but go to an airport like Newark and Chicago O’Hare during peak hours.</p>
<p>wait wait wait so did we reach a conclusion on new flight rules barring “one personal item” in addition to a carry-on bag? i’m about to move across the country and the only things i’m bringing are what i can bring on the plane (including checked bags). the loss of that personal item is really gonna mess with me.</p>
<p>Jimgo - I’ve flown out of many major American airports, including JFK and Miami, and I’ve never seen that happen. Plus, I use a bin to store my shoes (along with whatever other items I need to put in). I’ve never been told not to do so before.</p>
<p>The OP just copy & pasted a bunch of rumors floating around the web and news media but none of them have been implemented by the FAA. I just got off a plane myself and there was nothing different about security proceedings or on-flight rules.</p>
<p>Tmac, if that was directed at me please feel free to elaborate. While I did simplify the situation, the fact of the matter is that despite knowing the same amount of information for both incidents, one was decried as “racist” while the other, well, we didn’t want to jump to conclusions :rolleyes:</p>