Supreme Court Skips Out: TSA Body Scanners Are A-OK
Discretion is the better part of valor. The Supremes have decided that TSA body scanners are not a constitutionally relevant issue.
We can always take the train.
The Invasion of the Body Scanners will not be reversed from the nation’s last protection against invasions of privacy.
We can always drive.
The new technology was installed in October 2010. It is clearly an invasion of privacy. Well, it is at least blurred invasion of privacy. Americans don’t seem to care.
They can always take the bus.
Whatever the TSA implements is accepted. It is a kind of laboratory of privacy invasion. The government ramps up the invasive technology to see when the public resists. It never resists.
This is like one of those experiments in which the psychologist gives the lab rat a shock. Sometimes the victim is human. When will they resist? So far, the experiment has not detected any limit.
We can always hitchhike.
You can opt out of the scanning. You may choose groping. But if you do, this displays a bad attitude. The TSA does not like this.
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Published on October 2, 2012. The original is here.