{"id":10743,"date":"2010-11-25T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10743"},"modified":"2010-11-25T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T14:17:00","slug":"the-last-word-on-airport-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-last-word-on-airport-security\/","title":{"rendered":"The last word on airport security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is possible that full body scanners could be dangerous, particularly for frequent flyers; they may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumertraveler.com\/columns\/tsa-full-body-scanners-are-a-bust\/\" target=\"_blank\">not even be particularly effective<\/a> in detecting explosives. And no-body wants to be groped by airport security staff in a pat-down.<\/p>\n<p>There is one exception, though: Canadian Liberal Leader, Michael Ignatieff, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/todays-paper\/downs+privates+necessary+Ignatieff+says\/3880906\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">has declared<\/a>, in a statement that, had George Bush said it, would be a headline in every tabloid in the Western World:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re in my business, you live in an airport. So I have people touching my private parts all day long&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Ignatieff has not yet clarified whether he lives in airports just for this particular experience, or whether he has a less important reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is possible that full body scanners could be dangerous, particularly for frequent flyers; they may not even be particularly effective in detecting explosives. And no-body wants to be groped by airport security staff in a pat-down. There is one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-last-word-on-airport-security\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2025,1080],"class_list":["post-10743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airport-security","tag-airport-security","tag-michael-ignatieff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}