Earlier this week, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) enacted new practices at airports that incorporate even more rigorous searching of passengers to board US flights. There are two new practices that passengers will have to endure to get to their destination. One is a more invasive pat-down, which includes an “inner thigh inspection, better known as “2nd Base”. The only thing that isn’t checked in this new pat-down is a rectal exam…which is probably how the next terrorist will attempt blow up a plane, causing good Americans to choose between driving to their destination, or facing a prison-like level of bodily intrusion. 
The other is an extra high resolution scanner, capable of seeing the most detailed parts of the human anatomy. The TSA claims that we have no need to worry because all the photos will be deleted once they have been analyzed. No problem right?! The photo to the right is a leaked image from one of the new high power scanners. It’s that of a Texas congressman Billy Long.
Also, in Orlando Florida, two U.S. Marshalls were charges brought against them for saving 35,000 x-ray images of passengers. Still trust the TSA with your naked body?
Technology like this will always be exploited, and terrorists will always try find some other way around any attempt to stop them, they always do. So we need to ask ourselves, how many liberties are we willing to compromise for the sake of "security"?
I like this! If terrorists are always going to find a way around technology, why is the federal government so quick to give up it's citizens liberties?
ReplyDeletelet them blow some of us up. the line at Starbucks is too long.
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