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"Steve" wrote in message
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But, why would you want to object if you have nothing to hide?

If you think that gimmicks and a waste of money like that is going to make
you safer, then you need to be fleeced of even more money, to pay the
clever
people fleecing you.

These scanners are a complete waste of time and money!
What are they trying to achieve?
Prevent bombers getting to the airport? Ah ... No - lots of other ways of
getting there.

Prevent bombers getting on planes Ah ... No - see above plus airport
security measures.

Prevent a train from being blown up? Ah .... No - see assorted movies
displaying the talents of the French resistance in WW2 blowing up &
derailing trains; or read a good book on the subject. Doing it this way also
allows the bomber to live and perform the task again.

Show the population we take terrorism seriously and will try everything the
press think of to prove it? Ah .... Yes! Governments of all persuasions are
good at this sort of thing! It diverts attention from the real business of
anti-terrorism which is intelligence gathering and analysis; acting on the
results, possibly in ways the Government of the day wouldn't want us to know
about.

Roger C
PS Identity cards won't help in the war against terrorism either. Your good
terrorist will either forge a good one or ignore them. The really clever
terrorists at the top of the tree will be the first to get an ID card of
course. They will behave impeccably on the surface whilst co-ordinating the
efforts of the cannon fodder below them.