TSA has pulled the plug on the "naked body" scanners.

[GoCubsGo]

They will be removed from all US airports:

...Congress had asked the scanner manufacturer to find a way to produce more generic passenger images, but after failing to meet the Congressional timeline, the company terminated its government contract, a TSA administrator told Bloomberg.

The TSA had already started removing the scanners from 76 major airports last year; it now says it will get rid of the remaining 174 machines...

http://www.businessinsider.com/tsa-will-remove-its-controversial-nude-body-scanners-from-all-us-airports-2013-1

Good bye. Good riddance.

[Hugabear]

1. I know people who refused to fly because of those things

I'm sure this will be welcome news to them

[Matariki]

37. I refused to go through them

opting instead for the fucked up pat down over the radiation. This is indeed good news and will make flying a whole lot less stressful.

[Laelth]

2. Good.

I was quite ashamed that these machines were purchased, installed, and used under a Democratic administration. I am happy to see them go.

-Laelth

[Drahthaardogs]

20. Good riddance. All they did was slow down security anyway.

[indepat]

26. Good effin' riddance

[Drahthaardogs]

29. I stand corrected.

[madokie]

38. Best I remember these were bought and installed under a puke regime

not under Obama. This was a hold over from the dick and w days

[Laelth]

45. My recollection is different. n/t

-Laelth

[zappaman]

3. So, no more body scans?

Or is there a different machine?

[2pooped2pop]

25. crap, now I'm gonna have to pay for an xray to check

for irregularities. I knew I should have gotten to the airport for my free scan. Damn.

[pnwmom]

35. There's already a different machine in use, that's been in place

in half the airports. Now it will be in all of them. It uses radio waves instead of X-rays.

[zappaman]

36. Would it still be able to detect something....like...oh say...

a marijuana cigarette?

Just wonderin'...

[SomethingFishy]

39. Don't have to worry about that in Colorado and Washington

Sorry, hate to gloat... No.. actually, I'm enjoying this freedom.

[zappaman]

40. I live in Los Angeles so I hear ya.

But traveling to another state?
Not sure it would be okay...

[SomethingFishy]

41. Yeah getting on isn't an issue but getting off..

However, last week when I flew I took a little bit through security and then stashed it in my pants when we landed... It does make things much easier..

[Lifelong Protester]

4. Good.

The airports I have used since their inception did not have them, but I was set to refuse if necessary. I do not need an extra dose of unregulated radiation, thank you.

[Oilwellian]

5. Great news!

I despise these machines.

[seabeyond]

6. good. i can start flying again. my inlaws will be so pleased.... shit, there goes one excuse. nt

[liberal N proud]

7. Now I will have to go to the doctor to get my xray

[freshwest]

8. In an unrelated story...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Hjd--Gd-Z0w/T-eZrhhkDKI/AAAAAAACaNw/sKE_iJ-RdoQ/s1600/gas+prices+down+blame+obama.jpg

[backscatter712]

9. So much for Skeletor's gravy train... n/t

[Gormy Cuss]

10. To be replaced by the millimeter wave fuzzy body scanners.

Looks like the public outcry over the nudie X-rays had an effect. That or Skeletor has lost his political clout.

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. Yes, but now they're showing up wherever they want:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022205893

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. I always go for the pat down. Not because I get off on it or anything. DAMN! BNow I've said too much

[roody]

21. I do too. It is a free though short massage. nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

24. You know that a TSA dude here at O'Hare asked why I chose the pat down instead of the scanner.

So I told him it was my right. He then tells me I needed to give him a "legit" reason. To which I replied that I didn't. He saw I was getting pissed and said that they ask people now because there's a lot of misinformation regarding the scanners.

[GoneOffShore]

28. You could always ask why he's not wearing a dosimeter.

I've opted out every time I've been selected to go through the Nude-O-Scope. I tell the TSA doing the pat-down exactly why as well.

Security theater or Kabuki.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

30. Ha! Good one. I'll remember that if it happens again. I'm selected for the RapeyScan about 98% of

the time and I've also opted out every single time.

[GoneOffShore]

32. Of course they're still using the other machines,

That don't use ionizing radiation. I'm still refusing to go through them.

They've completely outlawed them in the EU although the UK still has them and if you're selected you can't opt out. Which is one reason that I'm not flying to England anymore. I'll take the the Eurostar from Paris and back before I'll fly out of LHR. And have done so.

[roody]

44. I have never been asked. I would

say that I don't want to make Micheal Chertoff any richer.

[srican69]

13. does that mean I dont have stand in that machine with my hands on my head anymore?

[arikara]

14. Don't celebrate yet

Read the entire article:

The TSA will replace the Rapiscan machines with versions made by L-3 Communications Holdings Inc.

I knew it was too good to be true. They get too many kicks from irradiating and harassing people at the airports and borders. This kind of treatment is why I no longer enter the US of A. My stepmother is still traumatized from crossing the border over 2 years ago, they ripped her vehicle apart and wouldn't even allow them to use the washroom for the time it took to do it, this was a couple of grey haired 75 year old women one with a bladder problem for petes sake.

[rsmith6621]

15. So Who Profited On This Deal

....WHO?

[bobduca]

16. Chertoff Lobbied for It

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2010/01/chertoff_uses_f.php

[backscatter712]

19. Figures that Skeletor would be shilling for Rape-I-Scan...

[bongbong]

17. Boondoggle for repigs

The repig-owned company that made these pocketed the billions and ran. They're laughing all the way to the Cayman Islands. After they spend all their millions, probably on hookers & crack & yachts, they'll be back at the taxpayer teat for something else.

[progressoid]

18. Oh no.

Now I'm afeared to fly again.

[Initech]

22. Get those things out and don't come back.

[Stinky The Clown]

23. I went thru one of those 174 machines yesterday in Nashville.

[GoneOffShore]

27. Now to get rid of the TSA.

Security theatre at it's worst.

[AntiFascist]

31. Why do some TSA workers have to be such a-holes?

it's one of the main reasons I try to fly as little as possible. Many are very professional, but some obviously don't get paid enough.

[GoneOffShore]

33. Most of the Smurfs are Mall cops who couldn't hold that job down.

Firm believers in "Obey mah authoritah!"

There's an interesting blog written by a former TSA clerk(They're not "officers" they're clerks) called Taking Sense Away at this link - https://takingsenseaway.wordpress.com

[Liberal_in_LA]

34. After spending how many millions on them?

[Hekate]

42. Women everywhere rejoice. The invasion of privacy was too much...

... and most of us don't need the extra rads. The fact that jerks could access those pictures and get their jollies from ogling or mocking us was just piling indignity upon indignity to our travels.

[dawg]

43. Yay!

Now I don't have to wait for a warm day to feel confident enough to fly!