December 17, 2010 2:14PM 

# Worth a Thousand Words 

By [David Rittgers](https://www.cato.org/people/david-rittgers) 

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Presented without comment. Image [here](http://imgur.com/gallery/xHyrt), HT to [Uncle](http://www.saysuncle.com/2010/12/17/tsa-shaming-4/).

For more Cato work on the TSA, see “[Body Scanners: The Naked Truth](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12563),” “[On Air Security, We are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12590),” and “[TSA Searches, Bomb Risk Near Zero](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12591).”

Jim Harper has some blog posts on the topic as well: [here](../../../../../tsas-stripgrope-unconstitutional/), [here](../../../../../washington-post-abc-news-push-poll-on-strip-search-machines/), [here](../../../../../strip-search-machines-as-the-downfall-of-the-war-on-terror/), and [here](../../../../../the-security-logic-clarifies-the-question/).

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