Thursday, March 18, 2010

Hundreds of Americans file complaints over naked body scanners...

Despite establishment media spin that naked body scanners are being meekly accepted by a compliant public, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that there have been more than 600 formal complaints about the devices in the last year.

Furthermore, the documents reveal anger at TSA officials for refusing to offer passengers a pat-down alternative, as well as forcing children to go through machines which provide crisp images of genitalia, a particularly outrageous scenario in light of last week's story concerning a TSA worker who was charged with multiple child sex crimes having raped an underage girl.

"Hundreds of U.S. air travelers have lodged complaints over use of full-body security scanners in the past year, charging they violate personal privacy and may be harmful to their health, documents released on Tuesday showed," reports Reuters. More...

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  3. German "fleshmob" takes off clothes to protest scanners...
  4. "Naked"airport scanner may be guilty of indecency...
  5. Ron Paul on Yemen, airport security and the State...
  6. Checking travellers at airports: security or humiliation?

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