Homeland Security Wants More 'Naked Scanners'

Or, we could just take that literally one in a million chance and travel without scanning me. You know, the old fashioned way of flying. Pretty sure we went many years without this being a problem, and will continue to have many more without them.

I'd rather have liberty with less security than no liberty and a greater sense of security.

I'm not turned on the least bit by the pictures, but I would not always assume the same from random and perhaps very bored security officals.

This would not bother me and i am a fat guy so hey some times people just have to take naked scanner pictures of you. It happens.

I'm not partial to the idea, nor do I really think it will stop anything, but oh well if it makes some people feel safer than why not.

Now... that would be another reason to lose some fat...

So by that arguement you should allow me to place camera's in your home, cause then I could make sure you werent building a bomb in your bedroom. Or better yet the womens locker room at the local health club, because you know I think they are planning something fishy. Seems like they might be getting in shape to overthrow someone. Its people like you that are killing this country. Give me liberty or give me death.

Listen we can sit here and beat this guy down by listing a whole lot of extremes that are way different then what we are talking about or we could....oh that's what you were doing...nevermind

Ugh... wow this is just plain sad..... Shit load of pervs here, this is probably their best chance to seek out on their "pleasures"

This violates constitutional law of illegal searches without due cause and many others. First, let's be serious, this is for the paranoid rich. The gov't doesn't really care about the average person. Second, I'm tired of "Terrorists" winning by systematically removing our privacy. It's very simple, the people in this country, with actual minds, need to engage in judicial warfare against the US government if they try and institute this psychotic technology. Yes, we do not need neurotic/psychotic paranoids dictating policy in this country. They are crossing the line this time.

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what about radiation issues.....maby mobiles "can" cause some problems but this defenetely will...even the dentist leaves the room while taking x-rays...
Wiil americans be able to claim damages if they get cancer?????

Hope this does not get to europe

I was going to volunteer at first, but I've seen some of the people flying.........no thanks

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I'm going to laugh at this when I get a thumbs down but whatever. But that one in a million chance cost thousands of peoples lives on 9/11 and millions of affected lives around the world. If you cant take it seriously then just don't fly and take a train or a bus. This nation is really sad when we already have forgotten 9/11, the people that work around the clock to protect and serve, or the people that have given their lives to the cause. The world is evolving and its becoming more hostile we need to accept this fact and get over it. So what if the machine scans you nothing different than taking a shower at the gym... pulse if your not guilty what do you have to worry about...?

Siman: Unfortunately, you already got a thumbs down for that very realistic and insightful comment of yours. I agree 100% with you thinking; however, it's a shame that 90% of the posters in this article are left-wing liberals.

Siman: Unfortunately, you already got a thumbs down for that very realistic and insightful comment you posted. I agree 100% with your thinking; however, it's a shame that 90% of the posters in this article are left-wing liberals.

keep using Anti-Terrorist as an excuse to put more restrictions on us.

Might as well stop bothering people in the middle east. There you go.

Protect and serve what? Sure protect all the "OIL FIELDS" so they can "SERVE THE RICH."

World Police my ass. Yeah I dont see those faggots in the US do something about the Somalia pirates.

The TSA is wrong and if they hung these up in a preschool they should be arrested for it.
Not only are the scans revealing, but they are recorded for the "edification" of bored TSA personnel. The old question about who watches the watchers applies very well in this situation.
The other problem with these scanners and the back-scatter scanners is that there is evidence that they cause radiation damage to the cells of individuals exposed to the fields. TSA is completely ignoring this aspect of the problem.

NEGATIVE....flying on an airplane is a privilege NOT a right guaranteed under the constitution. If you don't want to be scanned then don't fly! I am so sick of these ACLU funboys. I would LOVE to see you go through Israeli airport security..lmao. They don't give a shit about your rights.

That's right. Isreal doesn't give a shit about anyone's rights. And they scream anti-semitism if it's pointed out to them. Pointing them out as an example of how airports should be run isn't very intelligent.

Wow! And was thinking to go with my uncle for a holiday! I think I'll just tell him NOT to go.

The end of Israel will be by their own hands.. They have only "angered" Allah.

The person that caused all of this fuss boarded a plane in Amsterdam... So is the US going to give every country that flies to the US one of these devices and insist that they use it? I think not. I fail to see how this 'solution' is really going to solve a 'problem', unless the 'problem' is tourists that will now not visit the US due to the ever more draconian requirements to get on a US bound flight, or the ever more draconian 'security procedures' involved in returning home. How many laptops do I have to have 'confiscated' by the TSA for 'checking'? (Never returned, btw...)

I used to enjoy holidaying in Hawaii, but no more. Next holiday will probably be to the south of France. Nicer people, better climate, and good wines.

The US can barricade itself behind walls, for all I care, and live out your wee paranoid fantasies. Don't forget to maintain your belief that 'the US is the best nation in the world' fantasy while you are at it.

They even say they had info on this nut case & still they DID NOT ACT!
The feds need to get up off their plush office chairs & do some real field work. Instead of taking the blame, Our freedom will be smashed into nothing ( just waiting for some new Bill to be signed into law) due to lazy police work. Better yet; why not just have everyone board the plane naked. That way they can't possibly miss any terrorists...

I remember seeing these a few months ago. I remember saying if a terrorist attacks again, these would come up as the 'new solution'. I do hate being right some times. I seriously hate these machines.

I have no objections to this level of intrusuion I mean really have you looked at those pictures?
On the other hand though the line has to be drawn somewhere unless we intend to eventually subject all passengers to an intimate body cavity search

I think that in this case the privacy concerns are much to do about nothing. Put the monitors in another room. If the security personal in that room cannot see the faces of the subjects, than there is nothing to be embarrassed of. If there is something to be concerned of the can alert the TSA personal at the scanner, first through a general body diagram marked with the points of interest and if necessary with the actual body scan image.

I will pretend to have a peacemaker. Also, buy lead boxers.

Seems strange to me, I am not American and so it hardly concerns me, but according to this report, they are using these in 19 airports in the USA, and only 6 of those are being used as initial screening devices, Do homeland security have fore knowledge on which airports a terrorist will use and the others are safe?

Your rights will be continually eroded, your basic freedoms which you take for granted will all be stripped away in the name of national security, they just continually build fear until you surrender every freedom you have and completely give all of your life to the state.

Answer this simple question, how many terrorists have been caught by these body scanners so far? The answer is a whopping great 0 guess you need them on every street corner soon then.

hey Kevin Parrish...you're pretty stupid huh!..pretending to be a terrorist?...how about a 747 rain your mom's body parts on someones lawn..then come back and talk 'pretend' again...you must be a liberal with no job and a closet full of handout governement cheese and your children being pimped for tax deductions.

One step at a time...

One day you wake up without any freedom at all in the name of justice - chained against a wall.. don't forget you could one day become a terrorist so the "threat" have to be eliminated before it even arises!