Woman wears bikini to pass airport security

Of course when they say ‘LAX security’ they mean Los Angeles International Airport, not that security guards were remiss...

Hat-tip: EB

Comments

[Demeter]

Sorry to be a Grinch (deliberate American reference there) but this incessant feed of US stories is getting really old ('nother US usage).

The Guardian and the Beeb have been colonised by the colonists. It would seem you are willingly charging headlong into that state (heh) too.

There is enough surveillance crap going on in this country to keep you going without pumping out this "We are all Americans now" tripe.

Really.

[Piers Fallowcherry]

@ Demeter

Would agree in many circumstances but not on this occasion.

The whole security theater argument needs to be won in this country too and if the American public and media are going to soften up the vested interests for us then all the better.

[Michel S.]

This is a worrying demonstration of mob rule -- withholding of information (that those body scanners would not have detected the explosive powder used by the Christmas bomber); biased polling (asking passengers who already went through the enhanced security rigmarole whether they approved of it!); not taking the other side's POV seriously and cherry-picking the interviews to make the "pro" side paint the others as unpatriotic ...

One does not have to take the words of privacy advocates like BBW and the EFF; even security experts agree that these body scanners don't do squat! The Israelis don't use them, for instance. You can't claim they don't worry about plane bombing.

And behind every mob there lurks the puppetmaster -- Murdoch & co. Despite their populist affectations, the plutocrats behind the US right wing is as far from "main street" as it can be.

[Denise A Beresford]

I'm fed up of reading about the USA. What are we doing in the UK. I've emailed virtually every newspaper, all the TV stations and some TV programs directly, the department of transport, the two travel companies I use the most and the prime minister. I hope I have been reasonable in the points I have raised. I thought that even if they didn’t agree they may have wanted to try to show me up as a nutter, but clearly I need to have been sleeping with a celebrity to make it newsworthy. A self respecting middle aged woman is just invisible and irrelivent, as I have only recieved replies from the department of transport (I believe only because I did it on the right to know website and they have a legal obligation to do so) and the two travel companies. No one else has had the curtesy of sending a reply. My own primeminister can not get a minion to send a reply? Our media seem uninterested in having a real debate in public about these scanners which affect our most basic of rights and which have been shown to be more expensive, controvertial, invasive and less effective than a dog's nose.