Via BoingBoing, hero of the Hudson Captain Sully Sullenberger expresses his disapproval of TSA's insistence on photographing or groping the genitals of airline passengers and staff:
I donât want anybody but my wife and maybe my doctor touching me in the places these people are touching me.
Exactly.
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