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TSA Defends Airport Security Measures to Search Toddlers {ParentDish}
Jun 28th 2011 5:36PM No amount of safety, no measure of security, NO NUMBER OF LIVES SAVED is worth sacrificing the founding principles of our nation.
This is (ostensibly still) the land of the free, not the land of the safe. Freedom means risk and 235 years ago, some people decided that given the choice between living safe lives of submission to authority, or taking their lives in their hands and being free, they would rather have liberty at the expense of personal risk.
TSA causes two international incidents by searching Indian diplomats {Gadling}
Dec 13th 2010 9:49AM So now the airlines are a tiny bit safer, but the determined terrorists will move on to "softer" targets, like Times Square, Xmas tree lighting ceremonies and cargo bombs.
Next attack - shopping centers, schools, cruise ships, sports events, subways, tunnels, buses, airport security lines to name but a few.
We cannot possibly catch every attempt by screening, but we can humiliate millions of people and help bankrupt already hurting commercial aviation companies.
Fire 25,000 TSA clerks, dump the scanners and pat-downs, bring in dogs, and give the saved money to the FBI & CIA, who can actually catch terrorists (maybe).
I, for one, won't fly until this travesty is lifted.
Full body scanners arrive at JFK - TSA head doesn't want to use them {Gadling}
Oct 25th 2010 9:46AM You have the unconditional RIGHT to opt-out.
Google "DONT SCAN ME" or go to:
http://DontScan.us
for important radiological safety and privacy information and actual images from this technology, not the lame images that TSA is propagating.
Body scanners used as porn by airport security {Gadling}
Sep 30th 2010 10:41PM "Advanced Imaging Technology" is a euphemism created to make people think they are getting "scanned." No one is getting "scanned" -- they are getting strip searched.
The fundamental privacy issue is whether our government has the right to make strip searches routine and mandatory.
There is no question that these machines violate the 4th Amendment.
There are also health issues. Researchers are already coming out saying that the machines aren't safe and could cause cancer.
Please check out the brochures at:
http://dontscan.me
http://airportbodyscan.org
and join us on Facebook
All Facebook Against Airport Full Body Scanners
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=239458517874
TSA Testing Privacy Upgrades for Full Body Scanners {AOL Travel News}
Sep 16th 2010 5:04PM 1. The scanners in AMS do not use X-Rays
2. The scanners in AMS do require a person to screen the pornographic images. The computer analyzes the scan and an image is not produced or displayed. If the software detects anything unusual, a generic figure is displayed showing the screeners where to examine further. Nobody in the back room with hand cream and napkins.
Our government considers the boys and the back room a job benefit. Where else can you look at naked men women and children all day long and get payed for it - and not go to jail?
Click here:
http://dontscan.me
TSA Testing Privacy Upgrades for Full Body Scanners {AOL Travel News}
Sep 16th 2010 4:55PM "Advanced Imaging Technology" is a euphemism created to make people think they are getting "scanned." No one is getting "scanned" -- they are getting strip searched.
The fundamental privacy issue is whether our government has the right to make strip searches routine and mandatory.
There is no question that these machines violate the 4th Amendment.
There are also health issues. Researchers are already coming out saying that the machines aren't safe and could cause cancer. The flat ones (Rapiscan) use X-RAYS on Men, Women & Children, including pregnant women!
Please check out the brochures and info at:
http://airportbodyscan.org
http://www.nudeoscope.com
Pregnant passenger badgered into body scanner {Gadling}
Sep 9th 2010 4:10PM "Advanced Imaging Technology" is a euphemism created to make people think they are getting "scanned." No one is getting "scanned" -- they are getting strip searched.
The fundamental privacy issue is whether our government has the right to make strip searches routine and mandatory.
There is no question that these machines violate the 4th Amendment.
There are also health issues. Researchers are already coming out saying that the machines aren't safe and could cause cancer.
Please check out the brochure at:
http://dontscan.us
and join us on Facebook
All Facebook Against Airport Full Body Scanners
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=239458517874
and join in on Flyertalk.com
Organized resistance to WBI/invasive patdowns
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-safety-security/1119548-organized-resistance-wbi-invasive-patdowns.html
HELP PUT A STOP TO THE TYRANNY!
New York area airports no longer immune from the whole body imaging machine {Gadling}
Aug 15th 2010 1:24PM This is a strip-search, period. It makes no difference that the technology allows it to be done on an industrial scale, it's a violation of privacy that ultimately has, at best, no effect on safety. At worst, it exposes frequent fliers to elevated doses of x-ray radiation which may cause more deaths by cancer than the terrorists could ever kill with an airplane.
Body-cavities are not revealed, thus making this simply an exercise in power-mongering voyeurism.
You MUST opt-out of these intrusive searches, and maybe be wanded/patted by a same-sex guard. I Opt'ed Out a few months ago, which gave me the opportunity to officially express my displeasure - the smurf wrote down the reason for my opting-out for their official records (it's a strip-search, I said). I suggest more people do this.
Don't forget that there is no real way to validate what level of scanning is being done by the TSA. Example images on placards at the airport only show what the government want normal people and potential terrorists to see. If terrorists knew exactly how much scanning was occurring, they could adapt likewise.
Therefore, it is implausible to expect the TSA to be honest about how high the scanning level is set. In effect, the TSA will feed the general public propaganda to stop the enemy from being more diligent in their stealth.
Nice, eh - considering this was the state of the art 4 years ago:
http://rupture.co.uk/Terminal%204.html
(You may have to cut and paste the above link)
The TSA acceptanlce polls quoted date to January, before anybody had any idea about the invasiveness of these machines. Latest poll on NY Times shows 75% AGAINST!
Just remember to say "I OPT-OUT"
