Former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff promoted the scanners as a solution all the while profiting from them. According to the Washington Post:
Chertoff’s advocacy for the technology dates back to his time in the Bush administration. In 2005, Homeland Security ordered the government’s first batch of the scanners—five from California-based Rapiscan Systems. Today, 40 body scanners are in use at 19 U.S. airports. The number is expected to skyrocket at least in part because of the Christmas Day incident. The Transportation Security Administration this week said it will order 300 more machines. In the summer, TSA purchased 150 machines from Rapiscan with $25 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds.
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I’d like to see him in prison!
This is proof that the terrorist have won. Destroying our freedom has always been the goal. For years piece by piece the Constitution has been under assault by the Left. First it was the Second Amendment. Now it has been reduced to the worth of a piece of used toilet paper. I really like the comment by one of the TSA goons “You gave up certain rights when you bought a ticket”! What? I would be willing to bet that the Founding Fathers would beg to differ on that one. I have yet to see anywhere in the Constitution that the Government gives the people rights. These idiots need to read it. The people are to give the Government limited rights to govern. The rights of the people usurp the rights of the government. That key fact is what has always separated the USA from the rest of the world. Sadly that is no longer true. This bunch of “Blue Shirts” are becoming the “Brown Shirts” of a generation past.