CrewPass Full Court Press! Let's get this done!

[densoo]

Generic Response but

that's a good thing. It means they're getting so many inquiries on this matter that they've got a canned response ready to go. They are hearing the rumble.

Thank you for sharing your views about the use of millimeter-wave scanners, also known as body image scanners, at airports nationwide.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is increasing the number of millimeter-wave scanners in airports around the country. This new technology is able to detect concealed plastic and ceramic weapons as well as explosives that evade traditional metal detectors.

However, passengers who feel uncomfortable being screened by the body image scanner may decline to go through and will be patted down by a TSA officer as an alternate security measure.


I support bolstering the safeguards in place to prevent terrorists from entering our country. However, it makes sense to explore whether there are strategies other than millimeter-wave scanners that could be employed to discover concealed explosives and other weapons that are not detectable by traditional methods. Should relevant legislation be considered by the Senate, I will keep your views in mind.

Thank you again for getting in touch with me.


Sincerely,

xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
United States Senator

 

[maru657]

Trash crew pass, Just allow crewmembers to pass security with a company issued ID.

 

[densoo]

Sully on Hardball followed by TSA Adminstrator

Here's the clip: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/#40242012
Just the first minute or two is the pilot part, the rest is the usual.

Sully talks about pilots not needing to go through, anchor misdirects his comments, applying it to the general public.

TSA Administrator follows and says, "I agree with many of things that Sully mentioned....I hope to have an announcement about a good way forward as it pertains to the pilots in the very near future."

"Very near future." It is near! No more xray, patdown, bag check, screening by Christmas, maybe even sooner!

Keep those emails going to your congressmen. This has got to be pushed all the way up the hill. We'll never have this chance again with public attention, congressional inquiry, and media focus. It's a fleeting thing. Next week they'll be on to the next crisis. Right now, they're on this one. Keep it going.

 

[Skybus]

Hmmmm isnt that what we used to do? Stopped once an employee brought a gun onboard and killed the crew. Fixed that didnt they. Same employee in LAX could still do exactly the same thing through the back door they ALL use. It is ONLY Crew that pass through security and are fondled. How about a little kiss with that?

Bus

Trash crew pass, Just allow crewmembers to pass security with a company issued ID.

 

[GuppyWN]

Done.

Gup

 

[densoo]

On "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, interview with the Former Security Director of El Al, Isaac Yeffet.

Great quote right at the beginning--

Olbermann: Are these things [AIT and patdown] useful?

Yeffet: No! Not at all. The opposite. If we spend hundreds of millions of dollars . . . and the body scanner is used for pilots flying thousands of passengers and they are the terrorists, or they are suspicious--then close the business.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#40244871

This is still on the media's news cycle. Keep the pressure up by writing your congressman here!

http://capwiz.com/capapilots/issues/alert/?alertid=19337501

 

[densoo]

Message to my congressman for Thursday, 17 Nov.

"As an airline pilot my first concern is the security and safety of my passengers. A primary foundation of both are keeping things orderly and focused. Unfortunately, the TSA checkpoints can be anything but orderly partly as a result of all crewmembers being required to go through the same security checkpoints as passengers. We must cut to the front of the line in order get the aircraft in a timely fashion, and I must opt out of the AIT machine due to health concerns.

Every time a pilot goes to the front of the line and then opts out of the AIT, it pulls a TSA agent away from the checkpoint area and slows the whole process down for everyone.

I urge you to ask the airlines and the airports, in coordination with the TSA, to begin utilizing the already approved alternate screening CrewPass procedure for pilots now, before the busy holiday season.

Thank you for your continuing efforts on our behalf."

http://capwiz.com/capapilots/issues/alert/?alertid=19337501

 

[densoo]

It's working!

The American Traveler Dignity Act
Ron Paul

My legislation is simple. It establishes that airport security screeners are not immune from any US law regarding physical contact with another person, making images of another person, or causing physical harm through the use of radiation-emitting machinery on another person. It means they are subject to the same laws as the rest of us.

Imagine if the political elites in our country were forced to endure the same conditions at the airport as business travelers, families, senior citizens, and the rest of us. Perhaps this problem could be quickly resolved if every cabinet secretary, every member of Congress, and every department head in the Obama administration were forced to submit to the same degrading screening process as the people who pay their salaries.

http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1796&Itemid=60

Write you congressman here:
http://capwiz.com/capapilots/issues/alert/?alertid=19337501

 

[Dornier 335]

Sent & done.

3 3 5

 

[Grandpa +65]

"next step is anal explosives. are you therefore willing to take an anal probe to fly?"