TSA And Freedom To Travel Without Being Sexually Groped
Renee Baker emailed from Freedom to Travel:

I am sure you have all read the news that the backscatter scanners are being pulled from the airports. However, Freedom to Travel USA reminds everyone that ALL scanners violate the 4th amendment and lead to privacy violations and criminal touching of private parts. So, removing the X-Ray scanners, never tested by independent parties, is just a minor, but important first victory.

The remaining scanners do NOT detect explosives, weapons, or incendiary devices. So, any "alerts" are followed by "pat downs", which touch one's private parts or other parts of your body. The scanners cannot tell the difference between an explosive, a medical device, or a mastectomy scar. The coercive physical touching by the TSA violates criminal laws in all 50 states if performed by anyone, at anytime, anywhere else.

The false positive rate (not counting the actual alarms which have never detected a working non-metallic bomb on any of the 1.3 billion passengers from 2010 to 2012) of the remaining scanners likely leads to at least 10 million plus pat-downs every year, many of which involve criminal touching of private parts, such as experienced by mastectomy patients, those with medical devices, and those with artificial limbs.

If you are fortunate enough not to be "profiled" by the TSA, please consider those who do fit these categories and voice your concerns to "restore liberties" for all. We must keep the pressure on to end the abusive and illegal inch by inch searching and touching of our bodies as requirement to travel in this country.