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       Editor and prime reporter is Doug Terry, a veteran television and radio reporter in   Washington, DC, (details below)

ELECTRONIC STRIP SEARCHES ARE NO BETTER THAN PHYSICAL ONES

We can’t have our citizens being stripped electronically in order to board a plane. Period. If that is the price of flying, lets find another way to move around the country. Lets even consider changing our business, professional and family situations so that we don’t have to fly. We can’t strip searches, electronic or otherwise, in a free, open society where the individual is supposed to have inviolate rights.

If they create electronic strip searches at all airports, what’s next? The last eight years since 9-11, 2001 have shown all of us that there is no end to what the TSA and terrorism “experts” want to impose on citizens. There is no end.

Look, this is a serious subject, but it is easy to get silly with it right away, because strip searches are ridiculous. What if they start demanding that males shake their genitals to prove there are no explosives hidden? What if they next want you to remove your pants? What if they want women to remove their underwear? What are the dangers of cancer and other problems from being subjected to x-rays and microwave rays?

Many experiences and news reports show us, also, that whatever images are taken by

FINALLY! Someone is publishing actual pictures   from electronic searches, with the “big unit” showing, so that we can all see what we might be in for. Early news reports on CNN and ABC had the subject’s genitals covered.  The Washington Post broke  the barrier. http://tiny.cc/HmA1L The link is below.

the strip search machines will be abused. Movie stars going through strip searches at airports? Come on. They will either travel privately (the richer ones, that is) or they would have to have their own security to make sure the images were not somehow recorded and placed on the Internet. There is always a way found to abuse a system. Always.

As posted elsewhere on the TerryReport, there are many reasons to believe that the whole big show at the airports will never catch a terrorist anyway. Whatever is devised, the bombers will work to find a way around it. One apparent way would be to find a way to get a bomb inside the airport without passing through security. Are the airports and TSA paying enough attention on this subject?

The way to fight terrorism is to take actions, many varied and some of them of a conciliatory nature, far away from our shores. If we do everything possible, and do it well, reasonable protocols at the airport should be enough. Until we are taking all of the right steps overseas, going overboard here should be the last resort. We need to back down, slowdown and get a more reasonable, mature approach. We need to show a modicum of collective courage, too.

Doug Terry, 1.4.10

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