On AlterNet: airports

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "airports"

Would Supporters of Full Body Scanners at Airports Also Favor Body Cavity Searches?

Jay Stanley, Blog of Rights AlterNet: PEEK. January 4, 2010.

The logic of those pushing for body scanners for all airline passengers leads to the inescapable conclusion that they would support such a policy.

Right-Wing 'Experts' Justify Profiling, Body Scanners with Familiar Paranoid Rhetoric

Gavin Dahl, Raw Story. January 4, 2010.

A retired general makes egregious claims that that "in the next 30-100 days," there is "very high probability a US airliner will come down."

What's Next: Muslim-Only Lines At Airports?

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. January 1, 2010.

The public whispers and the right wing’s open talk of Muslim-only airport lines are fueling even greater racial division, fear and hysteria.

Talking While Brown: A Look at Racism in U.S. Airports

dday, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. January 3, 2009.

No kind of profiling is more justifiable than any other. It's all part of a creeping assault on our collective civil liberties and it has to stop.

Growing Database of Tourist Fingerprints Raising Privacy Concerns

Alexandra Marks, Christian Science Monitor. March 27, 2008.

Four years ago, the U.S. began collecting digital fingerprints from non-citizens. Its database now contains 90 million fingerprints, and counting.