on, well, you know...

pandagon.net - it's the eye of the panda, it's the thrill of the bite:

You know you’ve fucked with privileged people when USA Today suddenly starts engaging in the investigative journalism of government corruption that you usually only find in places like The Nation. [preceded by an excerpt on the blatant relationship between the increase in lobbying dollars from the 2 top backscatter companies and the increase in their purchases by TSA affiliates, along with the fact that their management boards include former DHS members]

Point is, there’s a lot of money to be made by selling scanners to airports. And there’s a revolving door between people who work in high levels of government and those profiting off selling these devices. It’s in the financial interest of these corporations that are lobbying the hell out of this to have you told that you use their products or you have your junk touched.

Yep, we seem to have reached that stage of capitalism where sexual abuse is being used as a threat to get people (taxpayers in this case) to spend money to pad corporate profits.