{"id":471204,"date":"2010-03-25T10:03:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T14:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=33959"},"modified":"2010-03-25T10:03:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T14:03:02","slug":"being-strip-scanned-at-the-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/471204","title":{"rendered":"Being Strip-Scanned at the Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Doug Bandow<\/p>\n

The new scanners aren’t a big deal, we are told.  No one would think of looking at the images and thinking lewd thoughts, we are promised.<\/p>\n

Never mind … .<\/p>\n

Reports Reuters:<\/a><\/p>\n

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A security worker at London’s Heathrow Airport has received a police warning and faces disciplinary action over claims he ogled a female colleague using a full-body scanner, officials said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old worker made lewd comments after his colleague Jo Margetson, 29, mistakenly strayed into the scanner, which can see through clothes to produce an image of the body, the Sun newspaper reported.<\/p>\n

The case is believed to be the first of its kind since the full-body scanners were rushed into service at a number of British airports in the wake of an attempt by a suspected Muslim extremist to blow up a plane bound for Detroit on December 25.<\/p>\n

They are now being rolled out at airports across the world.<\/p>\n

Details of the incident at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 on March 10 emerged on the day MPs said concerns that the scanners were intrusive had been overblown.<\/p>\n

Margetson told the Sun she had been “traumatised” by what had happened and had informed police and her bosses at the airport’s operator BAA.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Americans pay a price in lost liberty and privacy every day due to the so-called war on terrorism.  It’s time to stop pursuing a foreign policy of empire which has done so much to encourage terrorism against Americans.<\/p>\n

Doug Bandow, American Conservative Defense Alliance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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