Fredd

Sympathies to your wife and you and best wishes for the future.

It's yet another example that subjecting yourself to the X-Ray scanner isn't a free ticket to avoid the invasive search.

We fly a lot and Mrs. Fredd in particular is finding the search more and more distasteful each time we undergo it.

Let me remind everybody that it isn't a "pat down," despite the TSA's appropriating that term. It's more of an invasive custodial-style search.

It's possible your wife could have dealt with the type of brief secondary pat-down wanding used in other countries.

I hope you can think of some positive way to address this, for example by writing your federal representatives, without experiencing any further sense of loss-of-privacy violations.