Pilots and passengers rail at new airport patdowns

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AA55S20101111

Ask yourself why this child was required to undergo EXTRA screening.
How long will it be before a parent snaps over this?
I would, and I have no problem admitting it.
How does a parent cope with being forced, to have their child submitted to it?
It's a disgusting violation, and it's nothing more than, legal sexual terrorism.
My 13 year old is stacked, I can imagine some bastard at the airport feeling her up because the under-wire in her bra rang a bell.
What is the point of teaching her self respect when it can be stripped from her at will, by some dick from the TSA who decides he wants to feel her up because he likes what he sees and wants to cop a feel?
It AIN"T happening Kids,
Screw flying, my family will NEVER do it again.
Big Brother can go fuck himself, BECAUSE AT THIS POINT, they are now, THE TERRORISTS!


Stepped-up security screening at airports in the wake of foiled terrorism plots has provoked an outcry from airline pilots and travelers, including parents of children who say they are too intrusive


Some travelers are also livid about how children are being screened. During a trip last Sunday by a father and son through Orlando airport in Florida, the 8-year-old boy was selected for extra screening by TSA after going through the metal detector.

The father said the officer described the procedure before conducting it. Then he patted down the boy in the open security area, using the backside of his hands to check his genital area, he said.

"I didn't think it was going to be as horrible as he was describing," said the boy's father, Bill, who works as a lobbyist in Washington and did not want his full name used.

"We spend my child's whole life telling him that only mom, dad and a doctor can touch you in your private area, and now we have to add TSA agent and that's just wrong," he told Reuters. "At some point the terrorists have won."

TSA defends the body scanners

Body scanners can store, send images, group says

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/01/11/body.scanners/index.html

Caught in another bold faced lie......again


-- A privacy group says the Transportation Security Administration is misleading the public with claims that full-body scanners at airports cannot store or send their graphic images.

The TSA specified in 2008 documents that the machines must have image storage and sending abilities, the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said.

In the documents, obtained by the privacy group and provided to CNN, the TSA specifies that the body scanners it purchases must have the ability to store and send images when in "test mode."

That requirement leaves open the possibility the machines -- which can see beneath people's clothing -- can be abused by TSA insiders and hacked by outsiders, said EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg.

EPIC, a public-interest group focused on privacy and civil rights, obtained the technical specifications and vendor contracts through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

The written requirements also appear to contradict numerous assurances the TSA has given the public about the machines' privacy protections.

Stimulus to bring body scanners to airports

http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/05/technology/full_body_scanner/

Oh look job creation. The question is how much is Chertoff(the ex head of Homeland security) making off of this contract?
Don't you just find it amazing how much personal supplemental income our government officials are reaping off of these contracts all in order to keep you safe from the "terrorists"

The U.S. government is using $25 million in stimulus money to buy and install full body scanners in airports this year, in an effort to ramp up security and create jobs.

The Transportation Security Administration is using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to purchase 150 of the full body scanners, according to TSA spokeswoman Sarah Horowitz

The contract has helped create 25 jobs, mostly manufacturing positions in the company's Ocean Springs, Miss. facility, as well as some engineering jobs, he said.

Kant said the U.S. government has given the TSA the green light to spend $173 million on scanners, which includes the initial $25 million contract.

"Should we get additional orders, we will have to hire additional manufacturing positions," he said in an e-mail to CNNMoney.com.