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  • US lawmakers favour full body scan at airports

    12/28/2009 7:37:42 AM PST · by Schnucki · 58 replies · 1,623+ views
    Times of India ^ | December 28, 2009
    WASHINGTON: US lawmakers favoured a compulsory full body scan of the passengers of all US-bound international flights so as to avoid the incident of a Nigerian national sneaking inside the plane with explosives. "I would say right now we do need full body scan, especially when you have countries like Nigeria, which have inadequate security, and you have passengers transiting in Amsterdam and coming here," Congressman Peter King told CBS news in an interview. "There is a brief violation of privacy with the full body scan, but on the other hand we can save thousands of lives," said King, a...
  • The Psychology of Junior Sniper John Malvo

    12/14/2003 3:52:08 PM PST · by The Westerner · 16 replies · 198+ views
    Capitalism Magazine ^ | 12/14/3 | Michael J. Hurd, PhD
    The Psychology of Junior Sniper Lee Malvo by Michael J. Hurd The defense psychiatrist for the D.C. sniper, Lee Malvo, claims that Malvo was unable to distinguish right from wrong. In other words, he didn't know that it was wrong to shoot innocent people at gas stations and department stores. Why not? Not because he was psychotic or schizophrenic, meaning completely out of touch with reality (in which case he would not have executed these shootings so competently). Instead, we're supposed to believe that he was so "pathologically loyal" to the elder sniper John Muhammad that he couldn't help but...