(Sorry it's late!)
This cartoon was drawn by Joe Heller on January 5th for the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Basically, the drawing was influenced by an attempted bombing of a plane on Christmas day. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab hid a bomb in his underwear, with a plan to detonate the plane on a transatlantic flight. He managed to get through security with this. Fortunately, the bomb did not set off properly, but the bomb could have potentially caused a disaster. This blog provokes the question of how the bomb managed to pass through security. The cartoon is basically saying that security scanners are useless if they don't actually look underneath clothes to see if anything that could cause harm is hidden. I agree with Heller; security needs to be even tighter. I know that now real full body scans are being looked into, which would definitely help to eliminate situations like this.
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