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Old Jan 7, 2010 | 9:02 am
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LostSoul
 
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I just sent Mayor Newsom the following message through his website and would encourage anyone else who opposes these scanners to contact him as well:
According to KCBS you support the installation for full body scanners at SFO in part because "not a single complaint has been received." If that is still the case please consider this your first complaint on the issue. As an individual who flies through SFO on a fairly regularly basis I strongly oppose this initiative. Full body scanners are intrusive, expensive and, most importantly, ineffective. It has been repeatably shown that full body scanners almost certainly would not have detected the bomb carried by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and it is common knowledge that al Qaeda is already practicing defeating these devices. What we need is better intelligence gathering and cooperation, not more intrusive and pointless security theater. Short of subjecting all travelers to a body cavity search it is impossible to ensure that no one can ever get a bomb on a plane so, in my view, by the time a terrorist reaches the airport checkpoint the system has already failed.
At least, if he continues to claim not to have received a single complaint we will know he is lying.
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