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Posted on 03/07/2010 11:21:46 AM PST by Texas Peartree
I am someone who travels a lot for work. Over the past dozen years I have traveled to almost all the states in our great land. After 9-11, initially I was glad to see the increased security at airports. In October of 2001, I remember walking over to a Houston Police Department officer holding a sub-machine gun at Bush International Airport, and thanking him for being there. It was comforting.
Today the feeling is very different. As opposed to common sense measures, such as ethnic profiling of passengers, we have a system that treats everyone as an equal threat to bring down a plane. Last month, for example, full body invasive scanners were installed at 19 US airports. These are to be broadly used on grandmas and children. This is wrong and dangerous. Our enemies rightly laugh at us.
Last week, a six-member delegation of Pakistani lawmakers from one of their more restive regions came all the way to the United States in order to refuse a body scan at a Washington airport. Why? They say that these scans are an invasion of privacy and thus an insult to their religion. Yet, it is precisely their co-religionists who are the only threat that exists to US civil aviation.
Is this an example of chutzpah? Gall? Or something else? These gentlemen knew that the scanners would be used on them before they began the arduous journey from Pakistan, yet they got on the plane to come here. Why? Perhaps their goal was to soften up American defenses, or see if we are serious about protecting our planes? We are not serious, but perhaps these scanners can convince them that we are.
It may sounds hypocritical, but I am for scanning others, while leaving me alone. I am not . . .
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If those suckers can afford to come half way around the world to screw with our system, then we dont need them, deport their scuzzy asses.
Simple. No body scan, no ride on the flying camels. Period!
Common sense and Homeland security don’t mix
Not to mention the invasion of a blast of radiation to your body every time you go through one of these things.
“If they don’t like the body scans that they flew over here to refuse, then let them purchase and fly on their own private planes.”
Hmmm, wouldn’t that potentially be just as dangerous?
Normal humans have to undergo every imaginable indignity to travel, while Islamist Terrorist Sympathizers don’t want to undergo security searchs?
Take a camel next time, Osama.
Not if the USAF shoots them down first
I would refuse it too. They are totally unecessarily invasive.
As well they should! Everyone should refuse them. If everyone refused them, and refused to fly until they were gone, we could bring the airline industry to its knees. And get our country back to what it used to be. Instead of having our privacy invaded in every way imaginable. I'm sure I'll hear from the naysayers. Fine, get stripped naked then. Let the machines see through your clothing. And into your soul, if you have one.
And the radiation dose you receive from the flight.
Why?
If they can cough up 50 million for a 60,000 pound G5 or G550 then they can fly it anywhere they want and explode it and kill all aboard (all 12 of their friends).
If they only have 3 million they can buy an Eclipse 500 with a range of 1,250 miles and a weight of 6,000 pounds. Then they can kill themselves and the other 5 occupants of their aircraft.
In each scenario there will be 200 +/- innocent civilians NOT on their ITTY-BITTY aircraft who will not be killed by explosives strapped to the jhiadist bodies of theses creeps who want unfettered access to 800,000 pound 747's.
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Fine. So let them WALK! Preferably back home!
It’s not an xray. It’s a millimeter-wave device that doesn’t penetrate the body. Either way I personally don’t like them. Proud no longer to be a flying member of society anymore. I just can’t voluntarily submit myself to the zero tolerance stupidity of the TSA “officers”.
Apparently maybe it does:
“...unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication.”
http://www.naturalnews.com/027913_full-body_scanners_DNA.html
Sorry about the radiation reference...I think I might prefer a dose of radiation to this.
I say their religion is a threat to our national security and well being and therefore it's either "drop your pants" or go back to where you came from.
It looks like they use two types of waves. Apparently the terahertz waves are the ones that pass through the body. The millimeter waves end at the surface of the skin.
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