Dear Mr. President,

Re: the TSA and such, Reinventing the wheel is stupid but, that's just what we are doing. Let's do this instead:http://www.thestar.com/printarticle/744199

" Israelification - That is, how can we make our airports more like Israel's, which deal with far greater terror threat with far less inconvenience.

"It is mindboggling for us Israelis to look at what happens in North America, because we went through this 50 years ago," said Rafi Sela, the president of AR Challenges, a global transportation security consultancy. He's worked with the RCMP, the U.S. Navy Seals and airports around the world.

"Israelis, unlike Canadians and Americans, don't take s--- from anybody. When the security agency in Israel (the ISA) started to tighten security and we had to wait in line for — not for hours — but 30 or 40 minutes, all hell broke loose here. We said, 'We're not going to do this. You're going to find a way that will take care of security without touching the efficiency of the airport."

That, in a nutshell is "Israelification" - a system that protects life and limb without annoying you to death." ..............(see above link for the rest)

Please make sure everybody reads this vital article. I further urge you to try much harder to make the policies you campaigned on a reality. Yes, the country desperately needs to find its common ground but, trying to reason with those who have repudiated reason in favor of superstition, lies and avarice is tantamount to bringing a knife to a gunfight. The last two years looks like elegant Tango dancing, solo - sans partner. It looks weird and disconcerting. Just stomp out corruption wherever you see it and fire those who can't get with the program. the old adage applies: "Never wrestle with a pig because you'll just get muddy and only the pig enjoys it."

Achieving meaningful results, irrespective of what the bought and paid for corporate minions posing as legislators say about it, will widen the bonds of brotherhood and unity among ordinary people living and trying to find work outside the Beltway. Ignore the cacophonous chorus. Let them play with their own poop as is their wont and press on with the tasks you were elected to perform. Who in their right mind would want a second term anyway?

Yes YOU can! NIKE says: Just Do It!

Hopefully Yours,
Mike Morris

Abdulmutallab and Mohammed and Ahmed are higher security risks than Eugene's granny. We should allow low-risk passengers to get a background check and clearance in advance, and then those with a clearance should be able to go through metal detectors just like the old days.

We are under attack by Muslim Jihadists, not by Eugene's granny. Let's get real. People with no criminal history and no connection with Islam should not be treated as potential terrorists.

Here's an idea that's actually assured of working, unlike anything the idiots at the TSA could dream up.

STOP GIVING PEOPLE REASONS TO KILL US.

Stop treating foreign nationals like serfs in their own land, meddling in their governmental affairs just so US companies can appease stockholders and idiot american consumers who just want more more more.

Stop letting our multinationals conduct their business outside the US as if the globe is just a toilet for them to dump our waste in.

Stop viewing the resources of the world as ours for the taking, once those impish citizens of the host countries shut up and do what we want.

Stop supporting oppressive regimes in countries we "need" while starting wars in countries over "democracy" we clearly care nothing about.

The best way to stop someone from flying a plane into a building is to take away their reasons for doing it in the first place. But what fun is that when there's MONEY to be made, the true american value.

The author expresses a shallow and complacent point of view. From video and photographic evidence taken at US airports, what is happening is clearly wrong. That so many embedded within the federal government and corporate media, peddling doubletalk and bogus polls, are engaged in trying to convince regular citizens who are rightfully appalled,convince them that this is all normal and for their own good - well, this is truly the boiling frog analogy in disturbing real-life display. One can hope that the mendacity of all those promoting the new measures will serve to utterly discredit them, but they hold the upper hand for now.

I believe if these measures were introduced back in the summer, a groundswell of opposition would have found voice in the mid-terms, and that these measures were deliberately held back to remove any effective political opposition.

I think Lewis Black said it best; Americans are willing to bomb countries and kill countless civilians but we draw the draw the line at getting a pat down.

By most accounts, the underwear bomber was drugged out of his mind and put through Dutch security, despite their protests, by a well-dressed English-speaking man of South Asian appearance, who, interestingly, no one can seem to find. Another false-flag "terrorist" attack?

"We have not decided, and probably will not decide, to put this in the category of acceptable risks, along with plane crashes due to bad weather or flocks of geese. The economic and psychological damage from terrorist attacks is so great that we have resolved to prevent them. This is what we ask the TSA to do."

Who's "we"? To me and millions of other Americans, the infinitesimal chance of being involved in a terrorist incident isn't worth giving up my rights. Even a great possibility of dying in a terrorist attack isn't worth surrendering to.
Speak for yourself, Mr Robinson.

Truthout and the Matrix are one. Surprise, surprise.

Yes. Let's be patient with the TSA, with Obama, with the Banks and Wall Street. Let's be patient with General Petraeus and Afghanistan, with Climate Change and Congress. Let's be patient as we walk into the showers while awaiting a savior. Yes let's be patient as we are trained to live without a Bill of Rights, without the 4th Amendment, without the Writ of Habeas Corpus. Yes my fellow Truthout readers, Let's be patient while listening in on the following:

Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

Neo: What truth?

Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.

Morpheus: I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.

the author is a shill for corporate interests

The security theatre at american airports is completely unnecessary and over the top, it is an assault on innocent non-govt employee tax paying citizens.

The TSA procedures are invasive, ugly, repugnant, unnecessary, and an assault on the american air traveler.

You'd think all these people weren't paying customers if you didn't know otherwise, they are treated as if they are all criminals

and the searching of CHILDREN and disabled folks and folks with medical conditions is disgusting.

What a condescending, schmucky article. "Do you have any better ideas?" "Be patient with the TSA." "Have a good Thanksgiving." "

Sickening.

Agree with poster who says it's starting to sound like FOX around here.

Don't touch my junk. Is that, like, my breasts, my vagina, my penis, my testacles? Is that, like, my child's breasts, my child's vagina, my child's penis, my child's testacles? Or like, you are not allowed to see me naked just because I bought a plane ticket?

Robinson is seriously spaced out, if he thinks it is such a light matter for mass numbers of innocent people to be subjected to this behavior.

I think he should say these various words: Write the body parts, not "my junk."