Standing Naked in the Gap | Print | E-mail
Written by Becky Akers
Thursday, 11 March 2010 10:25
If you’re wondering what’s wrong with the country, you have only to watch American Christians’ acquiescence as government’s agents strip passengers naked at airports.

The federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has lusted since 2002 to search passengers with the same technology prisons use: whole-body scanning peers through clothing to show exactly what its name implies. That outrage had passengers resisting each time the TSA tried to push them into these gizmos. Then Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab wore explosive underwear for his flight to Detroit — a stunt the TSA immediately exploited. Never mind that Abdulmutallab boarded his flight despite the agency’s iron-fisted control of American aviation, even when it originates overseas, nor that whole-body scanning would not have discerned the bomb in his boxers. The TSA failed to stop him, so now it gets to ogle passengers.

The TSA and its useful idiots in the media continue to insist that even as the agency strips us naked, it has “implemented strict measures to protect passenger privacy.â€