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Fiiiiaasco is an understatement!! I, too, am sorry...

This thing is making me crazy my kids all live far—closest one is a 7.5 hour drive away. She will not be flying thru a scanner airport at Thanksgiving, but will with team travel after Christmas, and as I said, I am frustrated beyond words....she has to go as part of her team, but her schedule will not allow her to drive back and arrive in time for first week of classes. Even if her schedcule allowed, that would be a 2000 mile drive back to college, much of it thru the snowbelt. :(

Everyone is outraged...my neighbors called today—just a friendly call and were asking me about kids coming back for the holidays, and we got on the subject of nude scans versus the groping option of TSA.

Everyone in “fly-over” country is in an uproar over this....

The elites in Washington whose lives are likely minimally inconvenienced (if at all) by these new “enhanced” screening procedures are CLUELESS. I am going to call my Rep, a fairly conservative GOP and recommend defunding...this was all funded by executive fiat, and as the old adage goes:

FOLLOW THE MONEY. According to Washington Examiner, these scanners are built by an ally of dear leader...

Washttp://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2010/11/nudie-scan-ceo-obama-ally

Everyone in “fly-over” country is in an uproar over this....

I pray that you are right, but there was so little uproar over the PATRIOT Act, there was so little uproar over subsequent legislation and executive orders, there was so little uproar when a few years ago under Bush, the government decided it had the right to search our laptops when we travel, including looking through our email, photos, and personal documents.

I was under a different handle on freep back then, but when PATRIOT Act was pushed through by Bush and his buddies in Congress, I remember a lot of people ridiculing us for daring to question Bush and his cronies as well as questioning why Bush wasn't working to secure our borders.

Bush had 6-7 years to secure the borders, and Obama has had a few years, and nothing has really been done. God only knows what has been smuggled across the border while law abiding Americans are being searched in a vicious manner.

Don't think this will stop with laptop searches and little boys being assaulted in our airports by the TSA. If you think this will be the end of it, you will be sadly mistaken. Our grandchildren and their grandchildren will curse our names for letting Bush and then Obama do this to us. When Bush and Congress created the Department of Homeland Security, Conservatives should have been 100% against it, because deep down we all knew this was coming.

At some point, the government will probably reserve the right to start stopping cars traveling between states and searching them. All it takes is one terrorist to drive around and the government will tell us that they have to start assuming all drivers on our interstates are potential terrorists.