The new scanners they are now using have raised questions because of the type of radiation they use, and the possible risk of not only high prevalence of skin cancer, but corneal cancer. There are other, safer technologies.

Run me through the metal detector, I'm okay with that. Do not subject me to extra radiation when you cannot tell me hat it will do to me 5 or ten years from now. Do not put my vision at risk unnecessarily - and it is unnecessary. Do not think you have license to touch me places I could sue anyone else for touching me.

Train some of the millions of dogs that are euthanized for lack of homes every year to be sniffer dogs. I'd rather a dog sniff me - and every bag that goes in every plane, every box and package that comes into every port - than subject myself or anyone else to groping or radiation.

No, I am not needing to fly anywhere soon, thank goodness. But I do think these new measures are taking things to extremes, and doing nothing in terms of increasing our security. Sure - we make everyone take off their shoes, and they send someone with a bomb in his underwear. Whatever measures we take, someone desperate enough will try to find a way around it. It's human nature, sadly.