I disagree with you, Becky. I consider it an improvement that the TSA is allowing exceptions. It’s like the Nazis allowing some exceptions so that some Jews escaped the camps. It’s better than nothing. Now we can say that the TSA has moved in a direction that’s more nearly right, that it should have been doing more such sensible things all along, that it should rapidly expand this program, and that it should not discriminate among the many millions who are not on this program. We still can call for the TSA’s abolition and replacement by alternative screening methods such as this. We can approve of a TSA act without approving of the TSA itself. We still can call for reducing the information that this procedure requires. If the TSA itself starts to reduce its intrusions by means like this, why should we complain? Also, I think that there might be customers who would patronize an airline that had its own screens for safety that didn’t molest people or x-ray them. I know I might. I haven’t flown in years and I have never been x-rayed or touched, but the last time I had to take my shoes off. That already turned me off. But I might like to fly in the future and a private alternative with sensible screens would be nice.

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