Posted on 11/11/2010 6:09:47 AM PST by re_tail20
Supporters say it enhances security aboard passenger jets, but critics say it is little more than government-sponsored voyeurism for Transportation Security Administration workers.
The dispute is over the new enhanced airport security screening procedures that offer a choice of either a nude, full-body image X-ray scan or a hands-on-all-parts pat-down by a federal agent.
And the controversy could be coming to a head.
The Air Transport Association of America says it expects 24 million people to fly during the Thanksgiving holiday period, and an online campaign is urging everyone who flies the day before Thanksgiving – usually one of the busiest air travel days of the year – to opt out of the new full-body, nude-image scanners.
"The goal of National Opt-Out Day is to send a message to our lawmakers that we demand change," states the website. "No naked body scanners, no government-approved groping. We have a right to privacy and buying a plane ticket should not mean that we're guilty until proven innocent.
"While the government doesn't always like to advertise this, you have the ability to opt-out of the naked body scanner machines," the organizers said.
The move was praised by some as a needed spotlight on the invasive images derived from the security screenings – so graphic that WND cannot post them online – and the aggressive nature of the alternative "pat-downs" conducted by federal agents. One woman described how agents grabbed and twisted her breasts.
But the campaign also drew some alarmed reactions because of the potential it has to clog or shut down the travel system.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Cloward-Piven, baby! Break the system.
This is really silly. Is anyone really stupid enough to think that somehow the TSA workers were able to talk the higher ups into getting body scanners so they could ogle passengers?
Put the blame where it belongs—on Crapitano & her new TSA head. This is their genius idea for coercing people to go thru the scanners rather than get groped.
Crapitano could have gotten in front of this asininity & at least held a presser to inform the public of their inentions, but they’d rather let the workers take all of the abuse for them.
“Crapitano could have gotten in front of this asininity”
Love to see “her” go through one of those scanners. Probably find a small surprise.
“Uh-oh, are you trying to smuggle through a Tootsie Roll, or have we found Mr. Winkiee?”
OPT OUT! OPT OUT!
do it folks, watch their heads explode when they have to scream that dozens of times every hour
Make the TSA horn dogs, voyeurs and pedophiles and homos who beckon attractive women, children, and businessmen out of line for a body search while grimy one-way ticket islamists walk them - work a little harder for the free feelies
check this out
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2625285/posts
What are the cancer risks of these scanners for frequent travelers? Do the morons even know??
Let me offer a different solution.
Employ the Computer-aided Diagnostic Software CURRENTLY used in medical DIGITAL radiography (digital x-ray machines).
This software looks at a digital X-ray image and is BETTER and faster than humans at reading the films. The computer then flags the image and the region and notifies a human to verify what the computer thinks it found.
This applies to passenger screening in the same way: thousands of people go through very high resolution scanners, machines read the images better than ‘trained’ TSA agents, and only those passengers with telltale image artifacts get abused by humans.
It’s faster, cheaper and more reliable.
Just to clarify, this does NOT require the use of X-rays. The current backscatter machines will work just fine. Just use software to quickly and reliably scan the THOUSANDS of passengers who pose NO risk, and highlight only those who might.
Actually if you want to correctly affix blame that would be Bush and the dem Congress. They created this window dressing monster under the guise of protecting us all from ‘terrorism’. In fact its created its own brand of govt terrorism via the police and TSA. Anyone w/ a brain could have predicted this.
As far as I know, El Al doesn't use Nude Body Scanners or Grope Pat-Downs. Is that true?
Zero. It doesn’t use xrays.
Prior to federalizing air port security, it was run by a company called Argenbright that employed illegal aliens & convicted felons. I personally was opposed to the feds taking over airport security, but the alternative wasn’t impressive.
I do agree that creating DHS was one of Bush’s mistakes.
Either run the system the way it is done in Israel, or suffer the consequences.
Security in name only is what we have and it is sheer luck or a gift of God if anything is discovered.
I don’t hanker to get arrested for comments unbecoming the peanut gallery so I choose to drive.
Don’t know how fliers do it. They have more lay down and take it, than I.
There is a protocol for who gets the pat down. It’s amazing to me how many people are projecting a lot of pathology onto TSA workers who have zero say in the policy or how it’s implemented.
Scream at them enough & they’ll go ahead & listen to those union thugs who keep pestering them to unionize.
...and cummulative. Radiation exposure is a LIFETIME limit.
There is no radiation used in the body scanners!
And that's precisely why it will never be implemented or even considered.
It’s faster, cheaper and more reliable.
...and I’ll just bet TSA is a union, and if or if not, faster, cheaper, and more reliable ain’t going to fly. No pun intended.
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