Major airports nix PETA ads making light of scans

Major airports in New York, North Carolina and Las Vegas are rejecting a proposed ad campaign from PETA that makes light of the new full-body scanners being used at airport security checkpoints.

New Scanner May Replace Metal Detectors

The federal government will begin testing a body-scanning machine that could eventually be used instead of the metal detectors passengers walk through at airports.

We've all been told that the whole body scanners are being implemented for our own good. We've been assured that our misapprehensions were unfounded.

A TSA agent is alleged to have frisked Ms Murley and 'pulled Plaintiff's blouse completely down, exposing Plaintiff's breasts to everyone in the area'. The TSA are accused to have 'joked and laughed about the incident for an extended period of time'.

Reduced to tears while going through screening, an elderly B.C. woman is demanding an apology from Calgary International Airport security officials.

These TSA policies force terrified parents to choose between salivating radical homosexual employees viewing pornographic images of their child or a full-on molestation. But that's not even the worst part of this radical agenda.

There have been high-profile acts of civil disobedience in response to the two controversial procedures recently deployed by the TSA for primary screening - the body-scanning machines and the intrusive full-body pat-downs - including software programmer John Tyner's unforgettable …

Only because they use the word "JUNK"

It's hard to love the Transportation Security Administration, especially now that airport personnel seem so intent on touching people's junk. But the TSA's job isn't to be adorable, it's to be infallible—and also, apparently, to suffer being unfairly maligned.

I don't even think it's residual. It's purposeful, the damage to the airline industry that this is causing. You watch what's gonna happen this week. The day before Thanksgiving, ostensibly the busiest travel day of the year, wait and see what happens here.

Body-scanner makers (Airport security) spent $4.3 million to influence Congress and federal agencies during the first nine months of this year, up from $2.1 million in 2005.

Poll: Should we end the invasive airport screenings?

A lot of people are not happy about the invasive screenings that are going on at our airports. Are we letting the terrorists take away our civil liberties?

Talk about the right hand not knowing what the left is doing—especially when the left is groping the nether regions of a "potential terrorist" who happens to be blond, blue-eyed, and age 3.

What's the Alternative to Intrusive TSA Security?

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is deploying more full body scanners at airports, and they've instituted new and aggressive pat-down procedures.

And on the heels of this story comes news of another passenger getting dramatically irate with security. Although this time it's a 3-year-old girl being searched.

Body scanners being used at prison.

A Room for Debate forum on Monday discussed ways to deal with terrorist attacks on commercial airplanes. A number of readers suggested that the United States adopt Israel's tough air safety system.

A test of an X-ray security scanner that can see through clothing, even taking clear pictures of the human body along with concealed weapons, has been delayed until early this coming year at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

Draconian surveillance, identification, behavior modification measures being implemented right outside your door.