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TSA ends naked airport scanners contract after years of controversy
Russia Today ^ | 1-18-13 | Unknown

Posted on 01/18/2013 7:47:00 AM PST by Veggie Todd

The US Transport and Security Administration (TSA) will remove all 174 of OSI Systems Inc. (OSIS)’s Rapiscan body scanners from airports, following serious concerns over their inability to protect the privacy of passengers.

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KEYWORDS: airport; scanners; tsa
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About time!!!
1 posted on 01/18/2013 7:47:10 AM PST by Veggie Todd
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To: Veggie Todd

Yes, but - replace them with what?


2 posted on 01/18/2013 7:48:21 AM PST by grobdriver (Sic semper tyrannis!)
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To: grobdriver
Yes, but - replace them with what?

Body cavity search with Uncle Friendly wearing latex gloves. They promise not to take pictures and the public is expected to view the new procedure as less intrusive on their privacy.

3 posted on 01/18/2013 7:50:29 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: grobdriver
The TSA has been using two companies to conduct the searches, outsourcing to both Rapiscan and L-3 Communications Holdings to produce the machines. While the Rapiscan machines have been utilizing weak X-rays to create what appears to be a naked image of the subject, the machines of L-3 Communications Holdings use radio waves to depict concealed objects on an avatar image on a screen, and will continue to be used by the TSA.
The Rapiscan machines will be replaced by 60 units supplied by L-3.

4 posted on 01/18/2013 7:50:53 AM PST by grobdriver (Sic semper tyrannis!)
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To: Veggie Todd

Until this last year, I used to fly a LOT. I can say I NEVER stepped into one of those but I was frisked a lot. I would like to think that there were enough people like me that caused this action.

People need to do the same at “sobriety checkpoints” and refuse to answer ANY questions, no matter how innaucuous. Your time has value. The state disrespects your time and you when they stop you on a fishing expedition to see if you are doing something wrong. I refuse to stand for it.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”


5 posted on 01/18/2013 7:51:28 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Veggie Todd
Not so great. Now, it will just be the blue-glove handjob.


6 posted on 01/18/2013 7:51:37 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Veggie Todd

YES!!


7 posted on 01/18/2013 7:51:58 AM PST by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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To: grobdriver
Yes, but - replace them with what?

Cavity searches.

8 posted on 01/18/2013 7:51:58 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Veggie Todd

I would love to see a class action lawsuit against the TRA on behalf of all travelers that passed thru those scanners over the years!


9 posted on 01/18/2013 7:52:17 AM PST by austinaero
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To: Veggie Todd

The TSA is going to get rid of the naked scanners. That’s great.

My question, though, is... when are we going to get rid of the TSA?


10 posted on 01/18/2013 7:52:39 AM PST by MWS
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To: austinaero

TSA,,not TRA. A class action suit against the TSA since there were warnings from the beginning these things may not be safe.


11 posted on 01/18/2013 7:53:04 AM PST by austinaero
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To: cuban leaf

Yeah, I used to have a lot of company when I opted out, now I usually just stand alone: people have been conditioned!


12 posted on 01/18/2013 7:56:13 AM PST by elpinta (Jer. 10:23 - It really holds true!)
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To: Veggie Todd

The Congressmen who invested in this company
already made their profit.

Time to have TSA but their next companies’ products.


13 posted on 01/18/2013 7:58:08 AM PST by Diogenesis (Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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To: austinaero

I think the EU had determined they presented an unsafe radiation risk and removed them. Only a matter of time until that got admitted by some trial judge over here.

{this lamppost reserved for Michael Chertoff}


14 posted on 01/18/2013 8:01:44 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Still Thinking
Body cavity search with Uncle Friendly wearing [used] latex gloves.

You forgot a word. Has anyone ever seen them routinely change gloves between passengers?

15 posted on 01/18/2013 8:01:55 AM PST by COBOL2Java (kak-is-toc-ra-cy: Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. See: GOP-e)
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To: Diogenesis

Yes: A lot of people got rich off this boondoggle.

What will they do with these machines now ?
Money down the tubes. Like so many Obama projects.


16 posted on 01/18/2013 8:07:17 AM PST by Venturer
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To: MWS
"The TSA is going to get rid of the naked scanners. That’s great."

But will I get my scan back? I'm scheduled for a MRI and could maybe save money and tine by using the airport scan./sarc

17 posted on 01/18/2013 8:13:08 AM PST by hummingbird
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To: elpinta

people have been conditioned!


Sadly, that includes us. Proof? How do you think our founding fathers would respond to the stuff you and I put up with from our government?


18 posted on 01/18/2013 8:14:34 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Veggie Todd
TSA ends naked airport scanners contract after years of controversy

Well, they'll just have to find jobs elsewhere, maybe as exotic dancers in strip joints.
19 posted on 01/18/2013 8:15:54 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: COBOL2Java
You forgot a word. Has anyone ever seen them routinely change gloves between passengers?

I'd bet their gloves are crawling with microbes. They should do one of those testings they love to do on hotel rooms etc.. Where they would take a TSA glove and run it under a microscope.

Flew=Flu

20 posted on 01/18/2013 8:17:06 AM PST by 444Flyer (We are experiencing the perfect storm.)
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