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Daily Grope-Up: The Groping Will Continue Until You Drive Edition

  • ‘Naked’ scanners at U.S. airports may be dangerous: scientists” (National Post) The head of the X-ray lab at Johns Hopkins says “statistically, someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays.”
  • DHS chief tells pilot, tourism reps scans and patdowns will continue ” [link to http://www.infowars.com/dhs-chief-to-pilot-tourism-reps-%E2%80%98scans-and-patdowns-will-continue%E2%80%99/ no longer works] (Infowars.com) includes link to a CNN story “Growing backlash against TSA body scanners, pat-downs” which contains an estimated loss of 9.6 billion dollars in business because of the previous measures being too annoying.
  • Enough people are delivering resistance that TSA is threatening them with civil fines.
  • Meanwhile, a three year old girl sobs “Stop touching me!” [Update: Brad points out that this is from January 2009. Good catch, but I can’t see TSA regulations that demand child pornography or sexual assault reducing such incidents.] [link to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TCHSGvNwRY no longer works]
  • @snrk says “That it’s taken the TSA touching your junk to wake you up betrays a lack of foresight for where this was inevitably going to go, America.”
  • Airport Security is Killing Us!” (IndustryWeek) [link to http://forums.industryweek.com/showthread.php?s=7d0ced097af26bd73dc40d1308f39ff2&p=51891#post51891 no longer works] Literally. It’s killing us through cancer, it’s killing us through road deaths. We need a comprehensive policy that’s in line with dignity & the Constitution.

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