Perversion and Body Scanners

What they are not telling the public is,the images in their thousands are being saved on hard disks

In Detroit, last Christmas, Detroit Metro Airport was filled with more than the holiday spirit. A terrorist trying to blow up a Delta flight was amongst the passengers arriving and he didn’t mind the fact that he would be killed as well as the many passengers aboard.

Known to us now as the underwear bomber, he tried imploding a bomb hidden his underwear. While this incident happened prior to the arrival of the body scanners, what sense of security do we now have?

In Denver earlier this year a body scan operator was caught masturbating while scanning the passengers. He was immediately arrested.

"What do you want to do, get blown up by a goddamn Arab at 30,000 feet or we get to see your private parts? It's up to you, the ball's in your park," head of the TSA's scanning department, Rodney Schroeder, told CNN.

TSA should offer men scanner operators for the men and women operator scanners for women. For a man to pat down a women and vice versa is bringing nothing but problems to an already difficult situation.

Its like someone asking a men or women to go into each others dressing rooms while the opposite sex is there. The controversial scanners display every minute detail of a person's body and have been called intrusive by privacy campaigners. Body scanners penetrate clothing to provide a highly detailed image so accurate that critics have likened it to a virtual porn shoot. Technologies vary, with millimeter wave systems capturing highly detailed pictures of genitals, and backscatter X-ray machines able to show precise anatomical detail. The U.S. government likes the idea because body scanners can detect concealed weapons better than traditional magnetometers.

If you could make suggestions for chance in scanner policies what would they be?