Frisk me baby one more time!

Gone are the days of the frisking procedure and the metal-detecting magnetometer. We now have a full-body X-ray scanner that gives you naked images of airport travellers. It was bad enough that your mother had to find out about your third piercing through the loud magnetic sound around your bust area minutes befor you board the plane. According to Independent Online,the scanner penetrates even the thickest of winter coats and outlines nipples and genitalia.

The article, if anything,seems to have a casual approach to such a violation of privacy.What ever happened to a right to personal integrity? It's enough to get my Little miss Sunshine panties into a knot.
The Manchester airport in England is one of the first to use the new scanner and, not surprisingly, some United States airports already have them in use.
It's understandable that some find the whole frisking procedure a little (actually, ALOT) intrusive but I can't say i'd prefer to be comfortable having someone see me past my bra even before knowing my name. If it happens to be a good-looking man in a Kenyan accent, i'll beckon the ground to swallow me up.

Ironically, a New York Times article in 2005 discussed the Us Homelands Department's possibility of the naked X-ray scanner after the usual metal-detecting magnetometer did a lously job detecting weapons in hand luggage and taking into consideration non-metal weapons.
The naked X-ray scanner definitely begins a legacy of cringe-worthy searches ahead, but it begs the question of how far the a state will use its power in the name of (insert George Bush accent here) "national security" and how easily we let it slide for the sake of our protection.