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Security: We're not made safer by the TSA's authorized groping of Americans, full-frontal nudity scans of passengers or 3-year-olds pulled aside for holding on to their teddy bears. One young American has had enough. It wasn't exactly "Don't Tread on Me" or "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death." But when John Tyner, a 31-year-old software programmer from Oceanside, Calif., refused a TSA "groin check," he uttered words soon to adorn boxers and briefs of freedom lovers everywhere: "You touch my junk, and I'm going to have you arrested." Tyner refused what he considered "a huge invasion of privacy" while...

Who do you let see you naked? Seriously. Of all the people on earth, which ones do you feel comfortable taking your clothes off in front of? Odds are, the list is pretty short. Odds are, it's about to get a whole lot longer. Your spouse, your doctor, and now Homeland Security. In the name of keeping you safe, Uncle Sam needs to see your nasty bits. That's the bottom line on a new airport security plan that is going to be hard on both budgets and the Fourth Amendment. Here's the background. The government has developed a scanning device...