[ It is a sign of submission for a dog to roll over and expose its genitals to the dominant dog... The police state and the pretext for terror has made the US public into Pavlovian exhibitionists. The "TSA" and other so-called security agencies are actually part of the operant conditioning process itself. Time to re-watch the Matrix, people... ]
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How far will you go for the war on terror? Will you cheerfully pay higher taxes? Wait interminably at airports? What about letting the feds see you naked?
The Transportation Security Administration has long demanded the first two – now it adds the third. Its employees at security checkpoints in Tulsa International became Peeping Toms last week when the agency added millimeter-wave machines to metal detectors as a “primary screening technology.”
Millimeter waves penetrate clothing to show what’s beneath: passengers appear naked on the machine’s monitor. The Electronic Privacy Information Center describes millimeter-wave scanning as “equivalent to a ‘virtual strip search.’ … The level of detail uncovered [is] akin to a disrobing in public: the images seen by the screeners reveal the outlines of nipples and genitalia.” Supposedly, this will allow screeners to catch the weapons so many of us tape to our torsos.
The TSA’s tried to foist this indecency on us since its birth in 2002. That’s when it introduced a similar technology, backscatter X-ray, at Orlando International. But even in those months so soon after 9/11, passengers balked at exposing themselves just to defeat terrorists.
Since then, the TSA’s tried to soften the shock that agents of the federal government will ogle us.