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**Gasfghj** · 02-03-2007, 07:34 PM

BackstreetGirl
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. Well, if Gore and all of his entourage were pre-screened (something liberals opposed by the way because it makes life easier when some poor people are ill-equiped to afford such treatment) then I will take back what I have said vis-a-vis his special treatment.

BackstreetGirl
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. No, but I was making the point that those who treat PROFILING as something inherently wrong are engaged in it themselves when they question (as samantha did) the utility of searching people like Gore (where as those of us who openly support profiling make the same point about a 80 year old native-born grandmother of 5 being as likely to be patted down by security as a muslim national of Syria are somehow racist or discriminatory).

BackstreetGirl
Do you know the types of security clearances he had to go through when he was VEEP? Come on. None. Security clearance requirements are statutorally created. As a Constitutional Officer, neither the President or Vice-President (nor any member of Congress for that matter) need to get security clearances for their jobs. In fact, it was pointed out when Clinton was elected and sworn in the irony of someone with his background being President when it was an open question whether he would have gotten the required security clearances for many of those in the Executive Branch he was the head of.

BackstreetGirl
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. I would agree if and ONLY if Al Gore was completely unaware that he was receiveing special treatment. Something that I would find highly unlikely given the media coverage of what people have to go through these days unless he is utterly and completely out of touch.

02-03-2007, 07:34 PM	#34
Gasfghj Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 491 Senior Member	BackstreetGirl 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. Well, if Gore and all of his entourage were pre-screened (something liberals opposed by the way because it makes life easier when some poor people are ill-equiped to afford such treatment) then I will take back what I have said vis-a-vis his special treatment. BackstreetGirl 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. No, but I was making the point that those who treat PROFILING as something inherently wrong are engaged in it themselves when they question (as samantha did) the utility of searching people like Gore (where as those of us who openly support profiling make the same point about a 80 year old native-born grandmother of 5 being as likely to be patted down by security as a muslim national of Syria are somehow racist or discriminatory). BackstreetGirl Do you know the types of security clearances he had to go through when he was VEEP? Come on. None. Security clearance requirements are statutorally created. As a Constitutional Officer, neither the President or Vice-President (nor any member of Congress for that matter) need to get security clearances for their jobs. In fact, it was pointed out when Clinton was elected and sworn in the irony of someone with his background being President when it was an open question whether he would have gotten the required security clearances for many of those in the Executive Branch he was the head of. BackstreetGirl 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. I would agree if and ONLY if Al Gore was completely unaware that he was receiveing special treatment. Something that I would find highly unlikely given the media coverage of what people have to go through these days unless he is utterly and completely out of touch.
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