TSA's and their new 'scanners'.

http://johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/11/these-events-took-place-roughly-between.html

Mr. Tyner is brave guy. I applaud him for refusing to let the TSA search him or be subjected to Joe Lieberman’s scanners. I certainly won't let them use that technology or grope me or my family.

That means people like me and my family will avoid flying. I doubt I'm the only person who feels that way. I wonder if the travel industry is paying attention, just before the holiday season?

I wonder if there are any exemptions for government employees/officials, or people who enter the airport via the VIP entrance?

So why is the TSA pushing a technology on the public that would violate an individual's civil liberties, plus result in having their privacy violated, on a technology that doesn't work (or the simply be groped)?

Could it be that one of the people involved with the scanner company happens to be former Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff?

Seems to me the group benefiting from all this is the Rapiscan Systems with a guarantee of profits and future upgrades courtesy from the TSA.

(h/t here, and here)