Originally Posted by
BubbaLoop
First, let me make it 100% clear that I do not support the use of SPO.
However, a question that arises to me is why, if you can have systems that do not generate nude images of people outside the checkpoint, the virtual strip-search MMW machines are being introduced within the checkpoint. Either the passive system is no good and does not detect what it should (and therefore should not be used) or it is good, and can be used without privacy concerns within the checkpoint.
Anyone have a valid explanation???
I've got one: Using an image of a passenger with a continuously variable threat-level-bargraph reading from 0 to 10 gives a near useless entree into whatever search they want to perform.
The SPO doesn't absolutely rule out anybody as a threat, so they have a mechanical device that can effectively serve as a drug-dog trained to alert on command. BDO+SPO gives TSA a wide-open dragnet in the pre-LEO pre-probable cause portion of the TSA rights-trampling process.