This is such a shame.<p>I wonder what the founding fathers would think of mandatory full-body scans. They seemed uncomfortable with blanket drag-net searches -- they did give us the fourth amendment after all.<p>For me, it&#x27;s an affront to the core principles of our republic. The founding fathers had access to just as invasive methods as we have today, and they opted to restrict the government from applying them to the public without direct court oversight.<p>And I don&#x27;t buy the argument that flights are somehow special. There is this opinion that they deserve more scrutiny than buses or trains or automobile travel. The truth is, of course, that flying is not significantly different from any other mode of transportation. There is no argument for the TSA that could not be applied to a bus, car, train, or any other form of transportation.<p>I wonder if we&#x27;re just a terrorist attack away from the TSA in Bart stations. Perhaps one day we&#x27;ll have body scanners at bus stops, or ferry terminals. At what point, I wonder, does it begin to cause the courts Fourth-amendment concerns?