Knives and razorblades may soon be allowed back on planes

[CatholicEdHead]

This is according to the new TSA rules that are being proposed. This seems like leaving the backdoor open on purpose for something to happen.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/5558849.html

"WASHINGTON -- The federal agency in charge of aviation security is considering major changes in how it screens airline passengers, including proposals that an official said would lift the ban on carrying razorblades and small knives as well as limit patdown searches.

An initial set of staff recommendations drafted Aug. 5 also proposes that passengers no longer have to routinely remove their shoes during security checks. Instead, only passengers who set off metal detectors, are flagged by a computer screening system or look "reasonably suspicious'' would be asked to do so, a TSA official said Saturday.

Any of the changes proposed by the staff, which also would allow scissors, ice picks and bows and arrows on flights, would require Hawley's approval, this official said, requesting anonymity because there has been no final decision.

The Aug. 5 memo recommends reducing patdowns by giving screeners the discretion not to search those wearing tight-fitting clothes. It also suggests exempting several categories of passengers from screening, including federal judges, members of Congress, Cabinet members, state governors, high-ranking military officers and those with high-level security clearances."

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I love me a nice toenail clipper with built in knife blade, myself

[DistressedAmerican]

2. Alright I Fly In Tight Fitting Clothes From Here On Out!

No more pat downs for me! Spandex Suit perhaps?

[Alcibiades]

3. ice picks?

Ice picks? Are they nuts? Letting ice picks on the planes is way worse than letting "small knives" on.

Betcha that's what they'll swap out the box cutters for.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Ice picks but no lighters

makes perfect sense, doesn't it? :sarcasm:

[DistressedAmerican]

5. For the Drinks SILLY! Ice From That Big Block They Keep On The Plane!

I think they must keep it up in first class. I have never seen it but, I usually fly coach!

Otherwise you've got warm beverages!:evilgrin:

[ClintonTyree]

6. Do you mean the big, blue block of ice........

that sometimes falls from the sky? I thought they kept that one in the rest rooms.

[DistressedAmerican]

8. LOL! Can't Imagine That Would Improve the Taste Of The Drinks!

:puke: :rofl:

[Rich Hunt]

7. do they have amnesia? n/t