Which Terminators are we talking about here? The Ahnuld/Robert Patrick ones or the hot chick ones? Because I might be willing to pat them down, depending.

Oh, who am I kidding...I'll pat them down regardless.

I swear, no one reads my posts..

I just watched the whole video I love the ending

"You bring that case."

sweet. Like I said, money raised for this guy to either pay the fine or get a legal defense would happen so fast.

He said he's already had numerous lawyers/foundations offering to help, including the ACLU

I think he's actually more of an airport tough guy. Which is nice.

I did. I was just making fun of his tendency to belittle anything he doesn't like with the "hipster" label.

He is not a hipster he is a nerd. A nerd who was drawn in by the propaganda of groupthink site reddit.

A nerd? Are you 12?

Never said this guy was. It's Rosa Parks, who was doing it before it was popular. Does she meet your standards for a standing-up-for-civil-rights hipster?

lol at some fellow on the INTERNET calling someone who did something IN THE REAL WORLD an "internet tough guy", and then going on to say "he's just a neeeeerd!!!" on an INTERNET FORUM.

(self edited to avoid teh banhammorz)

It seems that there is a serious misunderstanding re what effective profiling actually entails. Effective profiling should vastly increase the chances of stopping any person that poses a threat, no matter their race, gender, age, etc... It is therefore obviously not simply a matter of spotting dark skinned arabic looking males in check in lines and searching them, etc...

To be effective, every single passenger is profiled by a number of different highly trained security staff at different stages of the process - usually nothing more than a few questions which takes no more time than the average check in and often much less (in Israel, every passenger is "profiled" at least 3 times before he even steps inside the airport building and for 95% of passengers, this takes no more than a minute or two). Obviously some passengers are singled out for further questions/checks.

It is the training of the staff and the infrastructure available to them that makes profiling effective. The classic example that is relevant to your point is that of the 32 year old Irish woman, six months pregnant, who had no idea she was carrying a bomb onto an El Al flight from London (planted by her Jordanian "boyfriend" and assisted by Syrian embassy staff).

The problem (excluding cultural and legal issues) is that US airports are on average about 8 times as big as Ben Gurion Airport in terms of numbers of passengers and the use of Israeli methods is simply impossible in practice due to the costs. This does not mean that the techniques are not effective however.

Rosa Parks was standing up to actual discrimination.

Anyone else find it interesting about our friend former senator D'amato's involvement with the body scanners?? Yah you know the same guy that is the chairman for the Poker Players Alliance:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/po...107548388.html


Seems like a lot of money is involved with having these scanners implemented everywhere. No wonder they are intimidating people by screaming "opt out" and then groping your genitals.

The saddest part of all of this is if this was ever to be voted on it would probably be upheld by a landslide.

You're right. Cupping everyone's junk isn't discrimination. However, it's still not right. Why shouldn't this guy fight....(cue Beasty Boys).....for his right..........for freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee junk.

Someone ITT posted an 80% approval rating.

The TSA says spread'em, man he says NO WAY!..
That hypocrite cups men's balls all day!..

A+

I sense an undercurrent of homophobia in this thread

...you are posting in it.

Nick, you just collected an "understands what racism is" endorsement. You now want to blow your shot at an "understanding what homophobia is" endorsement?

If your definition of homophobia is "not wanting to let strangers handle my genitals," then yes, I'm a homophobe.

I agree a lot with this guys comments from somewhere else:

Wook relax it was a joke

Nick gets handjobs from dudes all the time

Nick, no one ever knows when you're joking.