Flight Ban for refusing X-Ray

I get around said:
No insults. And do not edit a moderator's edit.
By your logic, people are always going to break the law, so we should just pull all police off the streets and let everyone do whatever the hell they want? Because hey, the police are only going to inconvinience average joe.
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By my logic, policing resources would be directed more effectively. Since a bomber can pick ANY crowded place as a target, it's ineffective to spend so much money trying to protect one such place, an airplane. I'd rather money was spent on more police so they can respond quicker to emergencies (You ever complained about how long it takes police to turn up for incidents for example?) or the money was saved, since as a country we're broke.

I'm not suggesting anarchy, I'm just advocating efficient, effective policing. Police on the streets can prevent crime, they can catch the perpetrators of crime. What they can't do is secure every single public space against potential terrorists.


I get around said:
Are you really that embarassed that some security guard will see you "naked"
What in all honesty have you got against these machines aside from it's removing a tiny amount of freedom you didn't even think or care about before.
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I'm not embarassed about my body in the slightest. I've even been naked for student artwork before. I just object to wasting police time and money. It's also not the tiny amount of freedom removed now that's the problem. It's the thousand tiny bits of freedom removed over the course of 10 years I have a problem with.

And stop calling me an idiot, you'll hurt my oh so sensitive liberal feelings. :p
 
RiPz said:
I take it these 'airport spec' x-ray machines don't have anywhere near the same effects as 'medical spec' x-ray machines when it comes to sensitivity? i.e. when you go for an x-ray at the hospital you are asked to remove all metallic objects (though i'm unsure why).

If this is the case for these airport scanners then would someone like myself be forced to have a strip search instead ? (i have a large metal pin in my femur).

Just wondering out of interest.
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You don't have to remove metallic items for the scanners.
 
In relation to the original story, I see two separate points 1) whether the body scanners are useful or necessary (probably not is the answer) and 2) whether the airline should be allowed to refuse service to passengers on the grounds of not complying with their terms (yes they should be able to).

In relation to the story that Dolph has just highlighted; I wouldn't mark it down as a fault of the body scanners as such although they do make it easier for some people to behave inappropriately perhaps. I don't think that the body scanners or indeed many of the measures in airports that are labelled as being for our safety are entirely useful but blaming them for people misusing them isn't totally fair either.
 
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