They do violate the “ALARA” principle – “As Low As Reasonably Achievable,” which is a guideline in medicine for ultrasound, x-rays, radiation cancer therapy, etc. Even if there are no studies showing problems, you don’t want energy going into your body from EM or sonic radiation for no good reason (and I think the TSA scanners are “for no good reason” given their high false positive and negative rates). There have been too many cases where radiation was erroneously thought to be innocuous. Marie Curie, to give an extreme example (in amounts and understandable ignorance at the time).
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Having just seen Papasan’s image directly above your post, I actually (really) read “randomizer” as “sodomizer.”
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I thought that was SOP. I’m never sent through the scanner if I’m with my kids. Once I took to long, and they and my wife got a few feet ahead of me. My wife was waved through the Magnaframe(?) with the kids while I had to assume the position.
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What about one of them horse collars? I bet they bought a horse collar.
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you showed them… really, it’s like you did nothing at all.
Enjoy your slight revolution and radiation. I say this out of anger for the TSA.
In reality nothing will stop this machine until we all band together.
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On the plus side, perhaps there will be an improvement of early diagnosis of prostate problems.
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I did! Thanks!
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Wrapped in a plastic bag to stop the alphas?
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It’s all theatre to give a false sense of security. People are the worst. You will allow this to happen and not say a word.
TSA told me outright if it came down to it - they’d be ok with routine rectal searches. " Anything to keep people safe."
You prisoners stand in line like cattle deserve what you don’t fight against. You then treat anyone trying to stand up against the machine like a crazy. It’s about control and it’s working. No one said a word when I stripped down to my boxers at the checkpoint. Business as usual. Sir - put your clothes back on so then a stranger can run his fucking fingers around your waist band to see if your smuggling any weapons? #safe or #slaves. Also, how long are we supposed to keep pretending the gov isn’t behind all the terrorism?
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When I have forgotten to check my stuff before a trip, I have often flown with a pocket knife stowed somewhere in my backpack (sometimes two). The only time that they ever got flagged was at relatively small airports (looking at you Tri-Cities Airport).
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Nah, that was the point. My wife, a grown ass adult, accompanying the child gets to avoid the scanner, while I, a similarly grown (though my wife would often debate this point) adult have to go through the dickscan machine.
So, apparently the message to terrorists is that if you aren’t carrying metallic dangerous items and you have a kid, we’re not worried about you.
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I wish I had that option, but I live in the US and work for The Man, and fly around the country. Mostly I’ve just taken to making fun of TSA agents that freak out. I have clearance, so I can kind of get away with it, if I’m careful.
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Ok the whole pre-screening issue aside…
What is their justification for the ridiculous escalation of their already pointless searches? I’ve heard of no new terrorist events involving airline travel.
The current plutocracy decides to double-down on immigrants so this means we somehow have to jack up the security searches before boarding airlines?
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Maybe things will lighten up at the airports.
" …cuts to the Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Administration and other agencies focused on national security threats, …"
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I take medication for GERD that tends to gas me up. I dare them to get too grabby or invasive with a body search! 
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If it wasn’t such a terrible, terrible idea, given that I’ve been unclothed in front of strangers so many times in the past few years if they just want me to strip down I’d reply with a, “kk”.
However it must be noted I am ticklish in two very specific spots, which I will not share. So, no touchy.
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In case you hadn’t noticed, Cory, the majority of our “representatives” in Congress are now avoiding public meetings. Unless there’s a $500 check enclosed with it, they won’t read your letters either.
So because I paid the $85 extortion fee for five years of less painful airport check ins I’m now wealthy and well connected?
Ookay…
ETA I posted before reading through all the comments and the surprise follow up by @doctorow. I still feel that was unnecessarily inflammatory.
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There needs to be an airflight strike. Nobody fly for a day, or a week. Tell them no one will fly so long as these are the TSA rules.
