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Re:Former TSA screener says the job does little to keep flie... by gambiting on Sunday March 10, 2013 @01:46PM (#5352703)
Really good post - just a note from myself - I've had to remove my shoes for screening many times while flying out from my native country(Poland) and that wasn't even to the US,but to other EU countries. So this is not something that only TSA does.
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Re:Former TSA screener says the job does little to keep flie... by goodcanadian on Sunday March 10, 2013 @08:13PM (#5354208)
And, I have never had to remove my shoes at airports outside of the U.S., including on flights bound for the U.S..
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Re:Former TSA screener says the job does little to keep flie... by ptaipale on Monday March 11, 2013 @03:56AM (#5355422)
I have, including on flights inside EU. What shoes do you have?

(Really, this has an impact - many shoes contain some metal reinforcements that beep at the detector.)

(I've also been asked to take off the shoes for screening, inside EU, without any detector issues - I suppose the security people have to take in a quota of white middle-aged and old men and women, in order to avoid accusations of racial, age and gender profiling.)

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Re:Former TSA screener says the job does little to keep flie... by Samuel_Michon on Sunday March 10, 2013 @04:17PM (#5353281)
As do many other airports in European countries, but it all started after 2001. The same is true for the new EU passports with biometric data.
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Re:Former TSA screener says the job does little to keep flie... by taligent on Sunday March 10, 2013 @06:10PM (#5353722)
I've flown to over 50 countries and the rules are the same everywhere.

The whole TSA uproar is actually more of a reflection of the anti-government, libertarian, personal rights above community rights attitude that uniquely exists within many Americans.

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Re:Former TSA screener says the job does little to keep flie... by newman314 on Monday March 11, 2013 @05:49AM (#5355735)
No, they are not. Plenty of airports in Asia do not require the removal of shoes.

Source: me. I fly a lot too.

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Re:Former TSA screener says the job does little to keep flie... by Evbn on Sunday March 10, 2013 @10:37PM (#5354586)
Really? The whole world drastically changed its security policy in the same way after one event in the US?
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