Airports to begin strip-searching passengers

You might want to take a minute to say goodbye to your personal liberties. They're flying right out the window -- and, as usual, it's all in the name of "protecting the public." You knew this was coming... After the failed terror attempt on Christmas day, the federal Transportation Security Agency (TSA) has decided to step up its security screenings. Their solution? Strip-search every passenger. It's not by hand, mind you, but it may as well be. The TSA plans to begin using full-body X-ray scanners that would essentially strip passengers of their clothing -- and their dignity. With these new scanners, no details would be left to the imagination -- which is just how the feds like it. Yup, Big Brother is a big perv. (And this will not solve the problem, nor is it necessary and it ads a new threat) But I'm not sure which is worse: The threat to your privacy or the threat to your health. Like X-rays, the new machines use radiation to create these indecent exposures. The experts claim that the low dose of radiation is perfectly safe -- even for children and pregnant women. That is absolutely untrue! Baloney. Exposing pregnant women to radiation can lead to grossly disfigured babies or can even cause women to miscarry. It's no coincidence that five female security guards had miscarriages after working with these supposedly safe machines. And it's not much safer for adults. Radiation can damage DNA and cause structural damage to your cells -- both of which can lead to cancer. In fact, Dr. John Gofman, Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, believes that 50 percent of all cancers are caused by the radiation from medical tests -- the same ones meant to "protect" you by detecting cancer early! Bottom line: If you don't want to be fried with ionizing radiation every time you fly -- and if you'd rather not have airport workers paid to be peeping toms...you won't stand for this outright invasion of your rights. When it comes to these full-body X-rays, I don't care how low the dose is. There is no safe level of ionizing radiation. Period.

Dr. William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

It is time Americans began using some common sense, stop giving up their liberties for protection or the illusion of safety (which never helps or works out well), stop letting the government endanger our health and start demanding that the government worry about Americans and their rights and health instead of what “the world” thinks us!

We need to be proactive not reactive and insist the government use methods that work to insure homeland security and stop endangering us and our children with half-backed ideas and so-called medical, chemical, and electronic methods that actually damage our health and take away our freedoms!

Time to do what works: profiling and Israeli type security measures instead of radiating babies and hassling granny over a bottle of shampoo.