U.S. Drops Plan on Screening of Statue Visitors

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Source: NYT

In the staredown at New York City Hall over the Statue of Liberty, the National Park Service blinked.

The Park Service had planned to have visitors screened on Ellis Island, rather than in Manhattan, when the statue reopens on July 4. But Raymond W. Kelly, the police commissioner, has been objecting to that move for more than two years.

Mr. Kelly wanted the security operation to remain on the promenade in Battery Park, where it had been since the statue and Ellis Island reopened to visitors after the Sept. 11 attacks. The New York Police Department was uncomfortable with allowing tourists to board ferries to the statue without first being checked for weapons and explosives.

On Monday, Sally Jewell, the secretary of the interior, notified Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of the decision. She said the Park Service would erect a temporary screening center containing X-ray machines and magnetometers in Battery Park, but might have to leave it there for several years before a permanent solution could be devised.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/nyregion/statue-of-liberty-visitors-will-still-be-screened-in-manhattan.html

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1. The terrorists won. With our help.

I'm glad that I was born early enough to have traveled without xray machines, and been up the statue of liberty without a screening.

What the fuck?

[VWolf]

2. Security screening at the Statue of "Liberty"

Ironic, much?

Went there a couple years ago - never again.
What's worth waiting 2 hours in a security screening line?

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3. By this time next year, they will be complaining about tourism dropping off.

Meanwhile, all the "screenings" from all around the country zoom into the HUGE data banks that have been created.