SLF here. This BS is just maddening. The scanners are sold by, drumroll please, M. Chertoff, recently of the DHS. This may be his retirement program. Now, the TSA/DHS is advertising in cross gender websites for screeners, promising that you can grope all the packages you want, and maybe even recruit some more folks to your way of thinking. Meanwhile, the idea of profiling, is just not PC enough and we can't let grandma or little debbie or kindergarten age or even some wayward pilot avoid the attentions of the previous fast food folks. When the beep goes off of the WTMD, some of the screeners jump to attention, thinking the french fries are done.
Enough is enough. You pilots and air crew in total are doing a wonderful job and putting up with way more than most folks would. The ultimate solution to this crap is boycotting the airlines. Sorry folks, I know this may affect you, but they (airline cos), have the congressional ear, and maybe the respective congress still remembers that the local populace is enraged still after the last election.
Sorry for the long rant. but the Bill of Rights is still sacred.