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Stop purchase of Sexually Explicit Scanning Equipment in Airports
  1. Signatures
    149 out of 10,000
    Petitioning
    1. The President of the United States (+ 2 others)
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      • The President of the United States
      • The U.S. Senate
      • The U.S. House of Representatives
  2. Created By
    Deanna Ross
    COS, CO
About this Petition Petition Letter

Iin 2006 a trial run of Sexually Explicit Scanning Machines was installed in 3 airports.  Americans logically expected the invasive nature of these scans, their expense, and the duplication of existing metal detection would prevent  purchase and installation.  Now 3 years later, the ACLU's vigilance for civil liberty informed us that dearly needed tax dollars have been slated to purchase these X-rated images for airports despite their duplication of existing metal detection technology, their peeping tom invasion of personal space, wasteful allocation of needed money, and wholesale violation of supposed privacy of "private parts". The photo attached was published so the nipples were blurred, the vagina blurred, and the length and contours of a man's penis and scrotum would be just as clear in these scans  had this been of a man.  This is violation of personal freedom, exposing the traveler's body in inappropriate and unacceptable ways.

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Stop wasteful purchase of Sexually Explicit Scanners at Airports

Dear Representative

This letter is to request that a law be written and instituted against the sexually explicit scanning devices proposed for purchase and use at airports. We the undersigned also request that there be no exceptions to this law. The metal detection is a duplication, and a waste of tax payer dollars in a time of economic difficulty. The picture attached above is an actual scan which has had the nipples and vagina blurred for publication purposes. This degrading, shameful violation of personal privacy is unacceptable, unjustifiable, and should not be tolerated in a free nation for any reason. There must be some limits of decency left to Americans. There is a precedent for ruling against this type of invasive imagery. Fines are levied and individuals and groups prosecuted for such similar images as pornography, hidden cameras in bathrooms, public exposure, indecency, voyeurism, etc. The Homeland Security Administration has seriously overstepped it's mission to protect. There must be a limit with some degree of common sense. American Travelers and families do not want this extreme scanning permitted when other security options are already in place which accomplish the same purpose. .

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