An Airport Scanner Darkly

The inevitable has happened, and our two greatest fears have collided, with frankly pretty hilarious consequences:

The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian has learned.

Our hysteria over terrorism and paedophilia has finally reached the point where the ridiculous draconian measures we’ve introduced in an effort to counter the two of them are actually logically incompatible with one another. Either we install the scanners, and face the risk of exposing children to filthy perverted paedo airport security guards (who presumably also have some sort of ghost fetish, judging by the picture accompanying the Guardian article), or we  don’t install them, and we give aid and comfort to all those hordes of evil freedom-hating terrorists. How will the Sun’s editorial writers cope?