No scanners in Dubai

Some countries still have some sense:

Airports in Dubai also refused full-body scanners as part of their border security regime because the devices do not correspond with national customs and ethics.

Brig Ahmed bin Thani, the Dubai Police’s director of airport security: ‘I do not feel that it is necessary for us to implement such a technology while we are operating different methods and have different avenues that have worked so far.

‘The use of such a device violates personal privacy and it raises a very sensitive issue for passengers, in addition to the fact that it does not complement our national ethics.’

Modesty on Technorati

This article wraps up Weiner-gate, TSA policies, and social ills all in one. I'm posting it here because I suspect that this writer is not alone in her thinking, and it is important to recognize that the TSA policies are imposing values on a larger percentage of the population who hold modesty in high regard. It is this type of attachment to a core value that will save us from complete submission to rogue federal agencies.