Posted on 05/20/2010 8:38:52 AM PDT by rawhide
More travelers will be going through full-body imaging machines as the Transportation Security Administration shifts its three machines at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to primary use.
The shift of the use of the machines at the main security checkpoint and international checkpoint means that in the lanes that have the full-body imaging machines, those machines will be the default system for screening passengers instead of walk-through metal detectors.
Up until now, the machines installed in November 2008 had been used for secondary screening, meaning they were only used if a passenger set off a metal detector or was selected for secondary screening.
But Wednesday, the full-body imaging machine on the far right of the main security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson was moved to primary screening, and one on the far left will be shifted to primary use next week. The machine at the international checkpoint was shifted to primary screening two weeks ago, according to the TSA.
Travelers can still opt out of going through the full-body imaging machines and instead go through a metal detector followed by a pat-down. The imaging machines are now in front of the metal detectors.
TSA spokesman Jon Allen said it takes about five seconds to be screened by the imaging machine, then 10 to 12 seconds for an officer in a remote viewing room to analyze the image. Because most of the time going through a security checkpoint is taken by the process for carry-on items to be X-rayed, he said the agency does not expect longer waits at security checkpoints due to the shift to primary use of the machines.
Before going through the full-body imaging machines, passengers are asked to remove everything from their pockets, as even nonmetal items may show up as an anomaly in the image.
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What will happen if you refuse to go through the scanner, the TSA goons will allow you to go through the metal detector, but they will also punish you, by doing a hand search of all your carry on belongings, delaying you. This is to force you to eventually give in and go through these sex scanners!
And the cancer risk is?????
I’m going to start wearing a burqua when I fly.
Then you should be just waved through, since you are such a peaceful person! No scan, no detector, no body pat-downs. /s
I drive wherever I go inside the US, regardless of distance. The all-intrusive TSA is the soltary reason.
I think the concern getting more attention is what long-term exposure risk is there to actual changes in your DNA structure. I am not a scientist, but have read that studies on rats, under the test conditions, did show all kinds of changes to dna as well as behavorial changes. How the test conditions relate to the level of exposure in this machines, especially for frequent flyers, I have no idea, and certainly don’t trust the govt or the manufacturer to provide compelling test data.
I hear you, but it is hard for me to drive across the ocean to Europe. :(
It already is required here in Indianapolis as of last week.
If you decline the millimeter wave radar scan, then you will receive a full secondary scan with wand and pat down. Been doing it for years because of a knee implant. I will glady opt for the body scan and be on my way.
BTW, I tested these machines for use in Iraq and spend many hours with a police officer viewing folks going through the machines. If I wanted to see someone partially naked, I’d go to the beach or the nearby supermarket - much more revealing that these machines.
It’s against my culture to submit to such intrusion.
The TSA’s trained chimps at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport are dumber than a box of rocks. Their only interest is seeing how many Duty-Free they can get you to dispose of.
Big Brother has a long history of nefarious things they’ve done to We The People without their knowledge.
This is to force you to eventually give in and go through these sex scanners!
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LOL.
I guess in this case, the word sex would be better replaced with gender?
That is definately a problem. Do they still operate ocean liners? As a child I went with my father to Germany on the USS Upshire, which was a troop carrier in WWII.
Don’t have any paper in your pockets when you go through those things.
In fact, in one instant, there was a fight recently between two TSA workers, about when one worker saw the small manhood of another and razed him about it. So do not tell me they are not that detailed!
I hate the open water more than flying and body scanners. No way!
RUH-OH....I will be exposed
According to the wiki on this airport it was
Named for former Atlanta mayor William Berry Hartsfield, who did much to promote air travel, William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport opened on September 21, 1980, on-time and under budget.
In 2003, Atlanta’s city council voted on October 20 to change the name from Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport to the current Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, in honor of former mayor Maynard Jackson, the first African-American mayor of Atlanta, who had died on June 23, 2003. The council had initially planned on renaming the airport solely for Mayor Jackson, but public outcry, especially by Mayor Hartsfield’s descendants, prompted the compromise.
(An affirmative action-named airport!)
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