Virtual Strip Search?

Hello, and welcome to the TSA Watch Blog! This is my very first blog post. While I am not much of a writer, I hope that you overlook my spelling, grammar, punctuation, and many other faults and find this blog to be informative, though provoking, and that it will increase discussion about a very important issue: The delicate balance between SAFETY and LIBERTY; we CAN have both.

There has been much discussion about the new "Virtual Strip Search" machines. TSA recently rolled them out at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. These machines are capable of seeing through all of your clothing including undergarments.

Even the ultra liberal European Union Parliament has denounced this technology as a "serious impact on the fundamental rights of citizens." Of course the ever powerful TSA has decided that anyone who doesn't want to be subjected to a virtual strip search may instead be frisked. Really? In the United States of America, a citizen can be forced to either be subjected to a "Virtual Strip Search" or be forced to be "Frisked" in order to board a passenger flight on a commercial airline? Is this what our fore fathers fought and died for?