Originally Posted by
BigBen1861
While it's arguable that this system is less personally invasive than a pat down, using this RANDOMLY is BS. We know that your 90 year old grandmother from Wichita isn't going to be carrying weapons under her clothes to attack anybody...so there's no reason for her to go through this machine "randomly". If she sets off the metal detector, then maybe that's another story.
As usual, they're looking for weapons instead of looking for terrorists. SNAFU
So what makes you think that US airports are a good place to look for terrorists? The TSA struggles enough to even find prohibited weapons and bombs and the TSA does only worse looking for terrorists. [The TSA has had a "big catch" mentality since day one.] Given we know how good a job the government has done with Osama bin Laden -- presuming that there are those in government still looking for that terrorist nearing 7 years after 9/11 -- it doesn't seem there is any reason to have confidence that the TSA is up to the task of effectively looking for terrorists at airports.
I don't agree with the use of these machines because there's a failure of full disclosure by the government, but the approach of looking for a needle in a haystack by creating haystacks in which to look isn't any better either -- it's an even worse idea to create more needles (than the government has already done and continues to do).