On AlterNet: airports

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

The 6 Stages of Backlash Against the TSA's Ridiculous Security Theater

Lauren Kelley, AlterNet. November 29, 2010.

Conservatives exploited the TSA backlash to promote right-wing ideas. While it's important to highlight their role in the debate, we must keep fighting intrusive security measures.

Separate from Those Scanners, Intrusive Airport Pat-Downs Are Par for the Course for Many Thousands of Travelers

Don Hazen, AlterNet. November 25, 2010.

Thousands of travelers each day, who have any medical metal in their bodies, are being semi-mauled for no logical reason.

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

Jay Stanley, Blog of Rights. 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 wingâ€™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. 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.