It's unfortunate that it had to come to this. Instead of making a knee jerk decision to add expensive body scans that may or may not work (and may be bad for your health) maybe the TSA could have shown everyone why the scans were so valuable. It's an expensive price to pay for our freedom. Not Sarah Palin/Teabagger BS freedom, but the real thing.
The pilot who refused to go through the new full body scan at Memphis International Airport is speaking out.
Michael Roberts says he refused to go through, not because he's a pilot, but instead because he believes nobody should have to be subjected to "a virtual strip search."
Roberts was traveling Friday from his hometown of Memphis to Houston, where he's based as a pilot for ExpressJet Airlines. He says a TSA agent asked him to take off his shoes and enter the new machine. He told the agent he wasn't willing. "I'm not going to do it," he says. "Not once am I going to show them my naked body."
