1384 Dogsense

There’s been a lot of controversy lately about the new full body scanners the Transportation Safety Administration is putting in airports. Complaints range from pilots worried that repeated exposures would lead to unsafe doses of radiation, to consumers worried about distribution of the pictures and invasion of dignity and privacy.
I agree with all of them. Particularly when you know that this isn’t really security. It’s security theater. Why? Because they don’t do a real internal x-ray. Even if you opt the genital-massaging pat-down they offer as an alternative, they still don’t do a full cavity search.
Which means a sufficiently motivated suicide bomber has the option of going beyond his underwear or shoes and actually installing a bomb in his rectal cavity.
Talk about blowing it out your...you know.
The only answer is bomb-sniffing dogs. That’s right. Dogs have been proven to be far more accurate than any of the above described methods. Trained pooches could be stationed at all the check-in points. Instead of getting a cat scan, travelers would get a dog scan.
That’s what makes the next story so scary. And it shows how one-step-ahead-of-us clever al Qaida can be. They surgically implanted bombs in stray dogs, put them in kennel carriers, and tried to ship them to the US on planes. If the dogs hadn’t died from the bad surgery the very good bomb in them would have exploded.
Problem is, if a bomb-sniffing dog had sniffed the bomb on the bomb-carrying dog it would have just looked like what dogs do already.
“Look at that dumb dog sniffing the other dog’s butt. Get back over here Rover...Bad dog! Get to work. Can’t you see we got tourists to embarrass...”
America, ya gotta love it.