Homeland Security Wants More 'Naked Scanners'
Taking a flight? Prepare to be virtually strip-searched by Homeland Security.
Thanks to the Detroit-bound crotch bomber pretending to be a terrorist on Christmas Day, Homeland Security now wants to beef up security by installing more "naked scanners." It's either that, Homeland says, or getting a thorough "pat-down" before getting onto an airplane. Homeland, so it seems, would rather choose the former (and who can blame them--some people refuse to shower or use deodorant).
The problem with naked scanners, as the unofficial label obviously reveals, is that passengers are subject to digital strip searches of sorts, exposing areas best kept behind bedroom doors or within adult magazine covers. The Electronic Privacy Information Center is of course all over the possibility, literally stating that the whole-body imaging technology violates privacy rights. The group also claims that the devices "capture, record, and store detailed images of individuals undressed."
Currently the Transportation Security Administration has 40 full-body scanners installed in 19 airports nationwide: 6 use the machines for primary screenings, while the other 34 machines are used in 13 airports for follow-up searches. According to Wired, the TSA has forked over a $25 million contract to Rapiscan Security Systems this past October. The contract is for an additional 30 scanners.
The TSA is also ordering more backscatter x-ray scanners, devices that send out low-intensity beams. Apparently this type of device is excellent in imaging organic material. But despite what privacy advocates claim, the TSA naturally claims that there's no privacy issue. In fact, the agency said that the images could be pinned up in preschool classrooms. Thanks, but I'll just drive.
I'd rather have liberty with less security than no liberty and a greater sense of security.
So by that arguement you should allow me to place camera's in your home, cause then I could make sure you werent building a bomb in your bedroom. Or better yet the womens locker room at the local health club, because you know I think they are planning something fishy. Seems like they might be getting in shape to overthrow someone. Its people like you that are killing this country. Give me liberty or give me death.
Your rights will be continually eroded, your basic freedoms which you take for granted will all be stripped away in the name of national security, they just continually build fear until you surrender every freedom you have and completely give all of your life to the state.
Answer this simple question, how many terrorists have been caught by these body scanners so far? The answer is a whopping great 0
I'd rather have liberty with less security than no liberty and a greater sense of security.
So by that arguement you should allow me to place camera's in your home, cause then I could make sure you werent building a bomb in your bedroom. Or better yet the womens locker room at the local health club, because you know I think they are planning something fishy. Seems like they might be getting in shape to overthrow someone. Its people like you that are killing this country. Give me liberty or give me death.
Listen we can sit here and beat this guy down by listing a whole lot of extremes that are way different then what we are talking about or we could....oh that's what you were doing...nevermind
Wiil americans be able to claim damages if they get cancer?????
Hope this does not get to europe
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I'm going to laugh at this when I get a thumbs down but whatever. But that one in a million chance cost thousands of peoples lives on 9/11 and millions of affected lives around the world. If you cant take it seriously then just don't fly and take a train or a bus. This nation is really sad when we already have forgotten 9/11, the people that work around the clock to protect and serve, or the people that have given their lives to the cause. The world is evolving and its becoming more hostile we need to accept this fact and get over it. So what if the machine scans you nothing different than taking a shower at the gym... pulse if your not guilty what do you have to worry about...?
Might as well stop bothering people in the middle east. There you go.
Protect and serve what? Sure protect all the "OIL FIELDS" so they can "SERVE THE RICH."
World Police my ass. Yeah I dont see those faggots in the US do something about the Somalia pirates.
Not only are the scans revealing, but they are recorded for the "edification" of bored TSA personnel. The old question about who watches the watchers applies very well in this situation.
The other problem with these scanners and the back-scatter scanners is that there is evidence that they cause radiation damage to the cells of individuals exposed to the fields. TSA is completely ignoring this aspect of the problem.
That's right. Isreal doesn't give a shit about anyone's rights. And they scream anti-semitism if it's pointed out to them. Pointing them out as an example of how airports should be run isn't very intelligent.