The scanners only detect what is next to the skin; they cannot
detect items inside a body cavity.  But that fact only serves
to further illustrate the futility of these machines.  If a
terrorist is committed enough to his cause that he is willing
to strap explosives to his body, does anyone seriously think
that same terrorist would hesitate for even a second about
placing the same explosives in his rectum?  After all, it
doesn't take a large amount of C4 to cause an explosion large
enough to bring down a plane. And terrorist, as we know,
generally do their homework.  Whatever procedure, technology
or policy we put into place, a determined terrorist will find
a way around it.  So we are accomplishing absolutely nothing
by way of making anyone any safer.

BIGGER AND

BIGGER AND

BIGGER AND

BIGGER AND....

I am a lifetime American Airlines Platinum card holder, which
means I have flown over 2,000,000 on American.  I have told my
wife and my employer that I will no longer fly anywhere.  I
will drive, take a train, or simply not go.  I will not put up
with the stupidity that passes for airport security.  The
x-rays, the pat-downs, the getting half-undressed, etc. does
NOT make us safer, it is all for show to make us think that we
are safer.  And I have decided that I will not put up with it
any more.  This nonsense will not stop until the airlines make
it stop, and the only they will be motivated to make it stop
is if we, the passengers force them.  The way to do that is
the same way you force any other corporation to change - by
hitting them in the pocketbook.  When the nice lady from AA
called me to find out why I wasn't flying with them any more I
politely told her why and informed her that so long as I was
subjected to what I considered to be an unreasonable search I
wouldn't be spending my money or my employer's money on the
airline industry.