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**Jerwittdergut** · 02-03-2007, 07:02 PM

Are you suggesting that airport screenings should be something other than completely random or mandatory? What makes Al Gore less of a risk than you or me? ANY answer to that question would involve the dreaded PROFILING!!!! Which we are supposed to believe is just plain wrong!

Actually, there are already airlines giving people special passes to avoid security. All they have to do is pay $100 a year and go through the same security clearance procedures paperwork-wise as a TSA employee and they by-pass the megs, the x-ray machines... all of it. It's called pre-screening.

That said, I truly hope you're not serious about whether or not Al Gore is an equal security risk as someone off the street, walking into an airport. Do you know the types of security clearances he had to go through when he was VEEP? Come on.

That said, it doesn't appear that anyone in Gore's camp made a request to go around security. Seems it was just some well-meaning airport employee who will now most probably lose his job.

I'm with Birdzeye on this... it's a non-sequitur.

02-03-2007, 07:02 PM	#26
Jerwittdergut Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 436 Senior Member	Are you suggesting that airport screenings should be something other than completely random or mandatory? What makes Al Gore less of a risk than you or me? ANY answer to that question would involve the dreaded PROFILING!!!! Which we are supposed to believe is just plain wrong! Actually, there are already airlines giving people special passes to avoid security. All they have to do is pay $100 a year and go through the same security clearance procedures paperwork-wise as a TSA employee and they by-pass the megs, the x-ray machines... all of it. It's called pre-screening. That said, I truly hope you're not serious about whether or not Al Gore is an equal security risk as someone off the street, walking into an airport. Do you know the types of security clearances he had to go through when he was VEEP? Come on. That said, it doesn't appear that anyone in Gore's camp made a request to go around security. Seems it was just some well-meaning airport employee who will now most probably lose his job. I'm with Birdzeye on this... it's a non-sequitur.
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