Air travelers strongly approve of the government's use of body scanners at the nation's airports even if the machines compromise privacy, a USA TODAY/Gallup poll finds.More at the link. Also, at Gallup, "In U.S., Air Travelers Take Body Scans in Stride." (Via Memeorandum.)
Poll respondents appeared to endorse a Transportation Security Administration plan to install 300 scanners at the nation's largest airports this year to replace metal detectors. The machines, used in 19 airports, create vivid images of travelers under their clothes to reveal plastics and powders to screeners observing monitors in a closed room.
"It would seem much more thorough than the process that we're doing now," poll respondent Joel Skousen, 38, of Willcox, Ariz., said. "It would put me more at ease getting on a plane."
In the poll, 78% of respondents said they approved of using the scanners, and 67% said they are comfortable being examined by one. Eighty-four percent said the machines would help stop terrorists from carrying explosives onto airplanes. The survey was taken Jan. 5-6 of 542 adults who have flown at least twice in the past year.
I suppose folks like Paul Campos and Glenn Greenwald will now call the great majority of Americans "hysterical wingnut fearmongers"!!
Either that, or they'll saw we should be like Germany! See, "From Granny to Nearly Nude Germans, Everyone's Raising Cane at the Airport."
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I consider the fact that they will have to look at MY body enough revenge....
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indect......too apropo
I think the American public has lost its mind. This device is a source of radiation. Any readiation is bad. As a physician, we try to avoid it as much as possible. As to security, that is a joke just as all of the efforts of the TSA. With this device in place, even if they went to body cavity searches, I can think of any number of ways to get a lethal device on a plane. So there is no such thing as airport security.
In our world wars we did not impose on the liberities of our citizens. Instead we imposed on the liberities of those that identified themselves with our enemies. Our enemy is Islam. We need to take the inconvience to the Muslims.
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