Dan A. Goldstein Posted: Sunday, January 10, 2010 4:00 pm No Comments Posted
Your editorial "Bring on the body scans" reminded me of several recent callers to an Air America program. They nearly tripped over themselves in their zeal to submit to any sort of indignity at the airport checkpoints.
I know that nearly everyone who flies has been scared purple since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But aren't full-body scans about the same as being X-rayed every time one boards a plane?
Do you really trust every TSA employee to act in good faith so that the resulting images aren't traded around the locker room after the shift ends or even sold to the highest bidder?
You needed to give the ramifications of body scanning more consideration before embracing this technology so enthusiastically.
For that matter, do we really want TSA personnel peeking over the bathroom stalls while we're inside? Sure seems like a major infringement of our Fourth Amendment rights, already so eroded by the war on drugs, the war on crime and the war on terrorism.
Benjamin Franklin said "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
We should take his words to heart.
— Dan A. Goldstein, Madison
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