When the Shoe Bomber did his thing, it led to the ridiculous situation of everyone having to take off their shoes before boarding a plane. Now that there is an underwear bomber, are we all going to have to take off our underwear? (Actually, that could be kind of interesting -- lots of new members of the "Five Mile High Club" due to the added convenience...)

In a way, yes, we are going to have to take off our underwear. I bet they make those $150,000-a-pop full-body scanners mandatory, and I bet the company that makes them makes oodles of cash. I would also bet that that company counts all kinds of high-flyin' private jet-type people among its board members and stockholders.

Wouldn't dogs be cheaper and more effective, not to mention less intrusive?

Has anyone bothered to study how these scans affect the body? What kind of rays are they shooting into us, anyway?

In any case, the underwear bomber did the full-body scanner industry a huge favor. I wonder if his rich banker father ever sent him to a special "summer camp." The other passengers on the plane described him as being in "a trance." That raises red flags for anybody who's ever seen The Manchurian Candidate or read up on MK-ULTRA.

I don't know if it was a conspiracy, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if it were.

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