TSA Body Scans: Federal Overstep or Much Ado About Nothing?

Liberty Juice ^ | 11/15/2010 | Chris Bounds

[LibLieSlayer]

I'll never fly commercial again... ever... the airlines were arseholes before... they are insufferable now. The tsa is violating the US Constitution... I will never fly commercial again because of it.

LLS

[Paine in the Neck]

Pat down Janet Napolitano, in public, on film, NOW!

Electro-strip-search Janet Napolitano and publish the pictures NOW!

[ExTexasRedhead]

There are numerous stories and comments about what is taking place all over the country at airports not just this video of a 3-year old screaming about the treatment she is receiving. Check the Drudge report and Breitbart’s website and read the description of incidents involving these scanners and pat downs. People are outraged over the treatment they’ve received by TSA agents. This video is but one.

[jazminerose]

Unfortunately, Drudge posted phony photos & the video gives me some doubts as to when it was filmed due to the uniforms.

I blame Crapitano for all of it—none of this was explained or discussed, it was just forced on us.

But spreading false info is not going to help.

[ExTexasRedhead]

There is no shortage of evidence as to what the TSA agents are doing at many airports around the country. This video is but one exposing their outrageous behavior.

[AndyJackson]

Federal Overstep or Much Ado About Nothing?

Well, it is silly to think that We the People might be the one's with the right to decide this issue.

[jaydee770]

TSA: (T)heatrics (S)luggishness (A)pathy.

Want to get rid of the TSA? Either through legislation or policy, allow a hold-harmless defense for commercial travellers who help subdue some a-hole who desperately needs it, whether on planes, trains or any form of public transportation.

I travel 40+ weeks a year and would *love* for some goober to try something within reach of me - regardless of the aforementioned legislation. I just think the legislation would publicly and officially serve notice that commercial travel is no longer easy pickings for dirt-bag towel-heads inclined to pursue jihad. I also would hope the legislation would cover the occasional need to remind jerks that a plane is also a “NO DRUNK & STUPID” zone.

If we can’t get rid of the TSA, then we need to PROFILE for suspects openly and with vigor! Profiling has been in use ever since the first peace-keeper thought to ask the question, “What did the bad-guy look like?” There is not a single thing wrong with profiling. If you don’t like that accurate profiling singles out a certain race, then the members of that race need to start policing themselves or encouraging better behavior among their race.

It’s not my fault that recent history overwhelming suggests that the current terrorist threat is some 15 to 55 year-old brown asian who is devoted to a militant interpretation of islam (spit be upon his mo-HAM-id). If the muzzies don’t like it - then *DO* something about it! Clean up your own house! Take back your “religion of blow-you-to-pieces” and reform it!

I swear, political-correctness has turned into a suicide pact!

[okkev68]

I am not defending the new procedures or machines but how old is your device, as I think your doc is wrong. I talked to Medtronic directly as well my EP. Any of the devices made in the last 5 years are completely safe in the metal detector or x-ray/back scatter machines. I know as I have been through them multiple times without any damage to my ICD.

The problem with the new machines is exactly why you won’t have any problems with your device - they don’t penetrate the skin more than a couple of mm’s. Your device won’t even show up.

I understand if you are afraid to go through them but you should call Medtronic again and talk to them.

I have many problems with the new TSA procedures, but danger to my device is not one of them.

[BuffaloJack]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TCHSGvNwRY&feature=player_embedded

And do the TSA agents have to pass a security background check?

[hal ogen]

See Tim Carney article in Washington Examiner on this issue. Depok Chopra (not the new age dr) is the CEO of the main company and accompanied nobama to India.

[mad_as_he$$]

So in order to travel in the manner adopted by this country you must submit to what in any other circumstance would be a crime against your person.

TSA Scanners:

Possible health effects
Millimeter wave radiation and radio frequency radiation in general is not inherently carcinogenic (unlike X-rays and ultraviolet radiation), but exposure to lower frequencies of microwaves have demonstrated an increased risk of cancer and faster rates of tumor progression.[10]

A study conducted by Boian S. Alexandrov and colleagues at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico[11] performed mathematical models how terahertz fields interact with double-stranded DNA, showing that, even though involved forces seem to be tiny, nonlinear resonances (although much less likely to form than less-powerful common resonances) could allow terahertz waves to “unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication”.[

BAD JUJU!

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/4983542/http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/4983542/

DO NOT SUBMIT OT THE TYRANNY!!!

Protest, protest, protest.

http://www.24thstate.com/2010/11/tsa-porno-scanners-and-child-molesting-pat-downs-need-to-stop.html

Remember the TSA is NOT about safety. It is about intimidation.

[mad_as_he$$]

http://publicintelligence.net/body-scanner-manufacturer-accompanies-obama-on-trip-to-india/

http://gawker.com/5437499/why-is-michael-chertoff-so-excited-about-full+body-scanners

[NautiNurse]

Thank you!