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• Anonymous

  Wonderful.
  We are safe from terrorists.

• Anonymous

  “because some felt they were an invasion of privacy”   ROFL

• Susan Westfall

  What are we paying for them with? They’re damn expensive and Chertoff just makes more profits while we get the option to get x-rayed on turbotic steroids. #facepalm

• Anonymous

  Someone trying to blow up the plane is an invasion of my privacy.
  Scan anything on me that you desire if it will keep us all a little safer.
  It’s a new world, get used to it.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YVD7GGGGULCUDNGSZME3NKBX2Q Barbara

  The Police State comes to Maine! What’s next, the TSA stopping cars like in TN, and feeling grandma up on her way to the doctor?

• http://twitter.com/NorthernRants Bill Buck

  I will sleep better tonight knowing our fine TSA employees are protecting us from Armageddon. 

  Take a McDonalds employee, replace paper hat with tin badge and voila you have a TSA Security Expert.

• Anonymous

  Last time I went through security, the TSA employee had no clue what he was seeing on the screen, plus he had no clue which of 3 “guests” was the real one….these people need to be trained!!!

• Anonymous

  I have seen some very competent TSA’s, they are not “Dubs” for the most part.  Have passed through Detroit, Charlotte, Philly, Albuquerque and Phoenix this year and those people were on the ball at all locations. I did the body scan and lived through the “emotional distress” of the experience……:-)

  Do you TSA’s critics fly a lot or just basing your opinions on a single experience ??? Just curious.

• http://DontScan.us Wimpie

  Drive 20 MPH – you will be a little safer.
  As for me, give me my freedom, and I’ll take my chances.