Strip searches violate dignity
In the aftermath of the Northwest Flight 253 incident, The Seattle Times has joined the headlong rush to embrace virtual strip searches as the latest quick fix to enhance in-flight security [“Forget blushing and fly safely,” Opinion, Jan. 3]. Quaint though they may seem, when core values like privacy, modesty and the dignity of the human body are so lightly abandoned in pursuit of the war on terror, you sometimes have to ask yourself: Who’s winning?
— Jeff Wagnitz, Olympia
Full-bodied X-ray machines invade privacy
This is one more privacy law that our government is going to take away from us.
Little by little the government is taking away our right to privacy. They want us to stand in an X-ray full-bodied machine and let somebody check to make sure we aren’t carrying any explosives before we are allowed to board our flights.
Come on fellow Americans. Are we really needing to bare it all just because our security failed? Do you really think that baring it all to some X-ray machine in an international airport is equal to having a trained technician in a doctors office X-ray parts of your body that may have cancer?
— Pat Gee, Federal Way