Jeepers Creepers! We've Got Peepers?!

Roughly ten years ago, Hollywood produced a film called, "Jeepers Creepers." While I have never seen the film, nor do I wish to see it, when it came out it was a big hit with my classmates. I can still remember them quoting the title at least once a day. So what does this have to do with, anything really? It has a great deal to do with our gargantuan, oversized, bureuacracy, and their daily assaults and violations on our civil liberties. Everyone worries about national security, but it seems that no one worries about civil liberties these days. To quote Thomas Jefferson, "a long train of abuses" has occured. Namely, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) full-body scanners. According to the official TSA website, "TSA has implemented strict measures to protect passenger privacy, which is ensured through the anonymity of the image. The image cannot be stored, transmitted or printed, and is deleted immediately once viewed. Additionally, advanced imaging technology screening is optional to all passengers." And we are all aware of the spotless record any government agency has regarding promise keeping. TSA also assures passengers that no image can be stored, printed, or copied. However, the photos with this page are an illustration to passengers of what the TSA peeper/screener will see. The first question in my mind is: if it really is impossible to store, copy, transmit, etc., any of these images, then how did they wind up on the TSA's official website? And why is the peeper removed to another room, and not visible to passengers he is violating? Something here is not making sense to me, and it is the logic of the federal government. If I were to do something like that, I would be arrested for any number of disgusting and immoral vice crimes. However, an agent of the benevolent federal government could never have anything but our best interests at heart, right? WRONG! This agent gets paid to sit there and drool over the naked bodies of your daughters and wives (I'm hoping it is a man) and there is no safeguard you have against his saving your particular picture, taking it home, and turning it into a full-color photograph! When are we going to say, "Enough is enough!" Or like the episode of "Network," stand up and tell them that we are human beings and our life has value! It won't happen. And that shames me. Sadly it shames me more than it does you. I am ashamed because this is America. I am ashamed because this type of behavior would not have been tolerated in previous generations. I am ashamed because people are not angry enough with the slough and morass they call their government to stand up with testicular fortitude and do something to make change happen. The end is upon us, here in America. And the reason is very simple. It is upon us because we are too "wowed" with our Blu-ray, we are too intent on the newest type of phone, we think we have to have the highest number of friends or the best-looking car or the most money, and we don't care about anything that really matters anymore. We don't care about morals, and right and wrong, and making people stand by their promises, or anything noble and valuable like that. Instead we waste our time on the most trivial of things, and then wonder why our once-great country has gone to hell in a handbasket.