‘They should be doing this in more places,’ said Judy Puckett of Lewiston, Idaho, as she waited to watch the Mariners play Wednesday. ‘After all,’ said her adult son, Bryan, of Boise: ‘It’s not like they’re strip-searching you.’
— Excerpt from an article published by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer about security screenings nearly ten years ago following the September 11th attacks. Although strip searches at airports have not become security protocol, invasive pat-downs and body scanners (designed for virtual strip searching) have.