| greenmedic88 said:
If anything happens due to security measures being "too lax" or just plain non-existent, you can bet everyone who felt violated, inconvenienced or even just plain annoyed at having to take off their shoes while waiting at a security checkpoint, will immediately look for a place to point the finger at for failing to do enough. At any rate, the scanners are supposed to make security checks more effective as well as more expedient (read: convenient). Hardly anything worse than being required to go through a metal detector or having a security guard sweep you with the wand. |
Metal detectors and sweeping me with a wand does not expose my junk. Nor does it involve someone touching it. I will have nothing to do with either. They are offering no viable alternative to people who are either private, or scarred by past experiences. I know more than a few people who simply cannot fly now for fear of being put through one of the enhanced pat downs. Flash backs to prior sexual assault is remarkably easy to trigger. I do not have such a great reason, but it is still plenty valid.
