[Regulator]

Perhaps if a robot did the checking in a closed booth without a human directly looking at the physical aspect of the human, but only a monotor seeing possible contraband, it would make things more "proper", less a hassle

Ah yes, mechanizing the police state.

So much more palatable.

So when the robot malfunctions and crushes some woman's breast, a scene that could be an outtake from Robocop, will everyone just shrug and say, "that's the way it is?"

Americans live in a police state now because the entire planet uses us for a goddamn doormat. Restrict mass movement into this country - especially from third world, terror supporting countries - and this crap will end.

You're probably too young to remember, but there actually was a time in this country when you could get on an airplane without first showing your ID to an Ethiopian, then being searched by legal aliens (allegedly) from the Phillipines (a true story, which happened to me the other day at Dulles).

You couldn't have gotten anyone to believe it would come to this in 1965. It would have sounded like bad science fiction.

[spiffy]

So when the robot malfunctions and crushes some woman's breast, a scene that could be an outtake from Robocop, will everyone just shrug and say, "that's the way it is?"

I believe they would say, "It's only a glitch!"