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Body Scan, No Pat-Down For Mayor Villaraigosa At LAX
(CBS) ^ | November 22, 2010 2:13 PM | Pete Demetriou

Posted on 11/22/2010 3:50:38 PM PST by BenLurkin

In an effort to fend off a growing resistance from passengers ahead of the busiest travel day of the year, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants the 1.5 million people expected to pass through Los Angeles International Airport that there’s nothing unsafe about controversial body scanners.

To show just how easy it is to be scanned, Villaraigosa twice stepped inside a scanner Monday as reporters and photographers watched.

The mayor says the scans exposed him to no harm and he didn’t feel his privacy had been invaded when an image of his body was projected on a computer screen viewed by security personnel.

A backlash to the machines and new pat-down searches has developed as the Thanksgiving travel period looms.

The mayor did not go through the new pat-down procedure, which is also being criticized as invasive.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: rapiscan; tsa; tsapervs
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1 posted on 11/22/2010 3:50:42 PM PST by BenLurkin
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video at link


2 posted on 11/22/2010 3:52:46 PM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: BenLurkin

Wow, such bravery in a brave new world.


3 posted on 11/22/2010 3:53:46 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: BenLurkin

Oh good we can ignore the medical doctors who question its safety because this bonehead says so.


4 posted on 11/22/2010 3:56:19 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: BenLurkin

Congratulations teenie weenie wimp, you got one vote.

Now lets put it to a vote and see who agrees.

By the way, you got a wife or a Daughter ? Lets put them thru the pat down and check your vote again.....hell, their votes need checking also, they may even neutralize your vote.


5 posted on 11/22/2010 3:56:19 PM PST by 4Speed
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To: BenLurkin

He is so slimy even the X-rays bounced off him!


6 posted on 11/22/2010 3:56:49 PM PST by WellyP
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To: unixfox

Never get between him and a camera.


7 posted on 11/22/2010 3:59:19 PM PST by edcoil ("Help the helpless, don't give a shit about the clueless.")
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To: BenLurkin
Great!!

A commie socialist marxist United States democrat tells me all is well......

8 posted on 11/22/2010 3:59:19 PM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: BenLurkin

A member of congress said he has seen the ACTUAL way the images look....the congressman said the real images are classified and they are the equivalent of porn.


9 posted on 11/22/2010 3:59:33 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (My message to jack-boot "Pissy" Pistole....DON'T TREAD ON MY JUNK)
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To: BenLurkin
Given how Villaraigosa had an affair with a Telemundo anchor, which broke up his marriage and cost the mistress her job, and given how his four children came from three different mothers, I can see why he wouldn't be bothered by having his nude body projected for all to see.

-PJ

10 posted on 11/22/2010 4:04:50 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Distinguished biological physicist and radiation expert Mayor Villaraigosa, emerging from his x-ray laboratory where he’s been studying the effects of X-rays on human skin for the last 25 years, while publishing over 25 articles in respected and peer reviewed journals, assured the traveling public that TSA X-ray naked picture scanners inflict no harm.”

Oh wait. That’s not what happened at all. Instead, Mayor Villaraigosa, clutching his history degree from UCLA, allowed himself to be photographed in a TSA scanner, declaring, “See, it didn’t kill me. It must be safe. Now you try it.”

I tell you this is funnier than stupid pet tricks.


11 posted on 11/22/2010 4:05:30 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from The Right Stuff!)
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To: BenLurkin

Well yippee for Mr. V. I wonder if he’ll volunteer to take the first TSA cavity check to show us all just how noninvasive and nonhumiliating that is.


12 posted on 11/22/2010 4:05:57 PM PST by dools0007world
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To: unixfox

Nobody ever accused this guy of being smart ~ Xray, Smeckray ~ ‘at’s what he’d say.


13 posted on 11/22/2010 4:07:54 PM PST by muawiyah (GIT OUT THE WAY ~ REPUBLICANS COMIN' THROUGH)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
There's really no equivalent to porn. It is or it isn't. BTW, there are government employees who regularly make that decision ~ is it or isn't it ~ I was one for a while.

Kind of boring.

There are those who claim more expertise in the matter, but it rather defines itself eh!

14 posted on 11/22/2010 4:10:08 PM PST by muawiyah (GIT OUT THE WAY ~ REPUBLICANS COMIN' THROUGH)
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To: 4Speed

Actually, Villaraigosa’s wife dumped him when she found out he was ridin dirty with a Univision reporterette.


15 posted on 11/22/2010 4:12:16 PM PST by atc23
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To: BenLurkin

It’s just a Treblinka shower, right?


16 posted on 11/22/2010 4:13:50 PM PST by MortMan (To Obama "Kill them all and let [God] sort them out" is an abortion slogan.)
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To: BenLurkin

Geez, the only weenie I see is the Mayor. I wonder if they had the machine on?


17 posted on 11/22/2010 4:20:51 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: BenLurkin
The mayor says the scans exposed him to no harm and he didn’t feel his privacy had been invaded when an image of his body was projected on a computer screen viewed by security personnel.

Sorry Tony, but I will use the liberal definition of "sexual harassment" on this one.

The intent of the groper is immaterial, the only thing to be considered, is how the groper's actions made the victim feel.

18 posted on 11/22/2010 5:04:21 PM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: BenLurkin
When you look for a photo of this mayor on a search this is one of the first pictures you bump into

He' the smiling guy in the V....I don't think he's having a problem with scanners to begin with.

19 posted on 11/22/2010 9:14:36 PM PST by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: BenLurkin; windcliff

He’s never one to miss a photo op.


20 posted on 11/23/2010 10:45:32 AM PST by stylecouncilor (What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
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