Stripper Scanners at Airports.

I recently flew from Denver to Lynchburg and was chosen by TSA to experience the naked person scanner. Out of curiosity I went ahead and went into the machine. They had me take everything out of my pockets and hold it in my hands over my head. Then they yelled at me because my feet weren't in the little feet pictures on the floor.. The machine swirled around me and they told me to step out and stand on some more stupid looking feet things on the floor. They then stared out into space, not a word to me about what was going on, and then asked if I had something in my pocket. I checked and did not. He said there was a piece of paper in there...why would a piece of paper be a concern anyway...I thought they were looking for guns and explosives! So then he felt me up in my groin and on my leg. After he was satisfied there was nothing in my pocket, duh, he let me go. What a waste of the taxpayers money.

I heard that the guy who sells this salted gold mine of a security device used to run some government agency and has friends in high places. Good work if you can get it, i.e. selling unnecessary and nonworking very expensive machines that annoy the flying public!

My wife doesn't want to fly anywhere that uses the machine so we will definitely be reducing our flying by at least 1/2. I'm not sure I want to go through that again myself.

Everyone should write their congressperson and senators to get rid of this crap!

Comments

Butt headed people who make everything political!

Both sides do it. Conservatives and liberals like to jump to conclusions that they think makes some stupid point of their political agenda. Today lots of crass liberals are basically saying that Sarah Palin killed the congresswoman in Arizona because there's a web site with the congresswoman's head in gun sites. These are the same liberals who laughed at this: Or this: These are ok but Palin's cause deaths! Somehow they missed the report that the shooter's my space page states that he was a big fan of the communist manifesto which would align him more with Obama than Palin.

What happened to "serve and protect?"

I remember when I was a child Andy of Mayberry didn't even carry a gun. He would talk to his neighbor who was shooting at him and get him to surrender his weapon. Of course, that was TV. In the 60's and 70's police officers were trained to only fire on suspects when they were fired upon first. I guess a knife attack or someone running at them with a baseball bat were also permissible reasons to fire on the citizenry. Since 911, and perhaps before, there has been a movement in this country to place public servants above the general population. For an example other than the police, one only needs to drive by any federal building...even the Department of Agriculture. Those building are surrounded by barbed wire, cameras, large cement barricades and other defenses. Next door is an old folks home with no protection. If the Dept. of Ag. is such grave danger, shouldn't we be concerned about the old folks? I was watching the Gun channel the other day (the name of the actual ch...

Signs that say that you can't use your cellphone.

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