Full Body Scanners Arrive at Airports - Along with Skepticism, Daniel B. Wood

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The "The TSA (Transportation Security Administration) has announced that nine more US airports will receive the scanners as Obama administration heightens the security due to an attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas day. There are few issues that come up. First it is a "virtual strip search". It litereally shows your body without your clothes to search any bombs under you private parts or somewehere it can't be searched by patting. Some wants the full body scanners because of the safety, but there are also who doesn't want the full body scanners not just because it shows the "naked" body. These machines are expensive, and they need to be taken care of. They need to be calibrated, operated, and maintained. It also might delay the time of the flight because it will take hours of scanning thousands of people.
The argument is supported effectively by stating not just one side but both. It supports mostly on against having those machines, and those two sides are logically supported. The argument is persuasive beacue it gives pretty good logical informations. It has information about the percentages of those who prefer the scanners and those who doens't prefer. Even though thre are more people who want the scanners this article stays with the side that is against the scanners. I think it did reach the intended audience because during our economy crisis everyone will be focused on dollars, and this article talks about the cost of these machines.
This article made me feel that we don't need these machines to check our skins under our clothes. The issue might not be a big deal, but I think it is. If we were to get rid of the scanners the security will be loosened, but we would have to spend more money on the security if they were to use the machines. We can choose our way to be searched at the air port and the machines might go to waste of everyone chooses to be searched by patting, so it would be better if we stick with the pat search.