From NBC News:
Only 19 U.S. airports have received sophisticated imaging machines that can detect explosives hidden in clothing.
Security experts say the scanners may be the best defense in stopping attacks such as an attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound aircraft Christmas Day.
The Transportation Security Administration wants to install more of the devices, known as whole-body imaging scanners, but the agency has met resistance from civil liberties groups, passengers and some members of Congress.
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, the nation's third busiest, has just two of the machines.
We go through this every time something happens with an airplane. When the shoe bomber tried to blow up his shoe, we all had to start taking our shoes off at the screening points, and now this terrorist had expolisives in his underwear...so does that mean I have to start stripping down to my boxers? Or will they just install that device that will see right through your clothes and invade all of your privacy?
These incidents of terror have been very isolated over the past 9 years, but every time one happens we get the great promise by our government that they will step up security in order to protect us.
It is a game they play with us in order to have more control over our privacy and the way we live our lives. The American people fall for it every single time it happens and when we go to the airport we bitch the whole time because it is a nuisance.
Stand up for your God given liberty and freedoms because every day we live we lose them one by one.
As Benjamin Franklin once said "The person that sacrifices liberty for security deserves neither."

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