The naked body scanners are taking over.
When we first checked in on them two years ago, the scanners, which see through clothing, were being deployed at a single airport. A few months later, they were upgraded to millimeter-wave technology, which delivered similar images with even less radiation�”10,000 times less than a cell phone transmission,” according to the Transportation Security Administration. At the time, TSA assured us that the scanners would be used only as a “voluntary alternative” to “a more invasive physical pat-down during secondary screening.” Only a few passengers, the ones selected for extra scrutiny, would face the scanners. The rest of us could walk through the metal detectors and board our planes.
Surprise! Two months ago, TSA revised its position. It began testing millimeter-wave scans “in the place of the walk-through metal detector at six airports.” At these airports, everyone�not just people selected for secondary screening�would face the see-through machines. Anyone who objected would “undergo metal detector screening and a pat-down.” You might even get the “enhanced pat-down,” which includes “sensitive areas of the body that are often used by professional testers and terrorists,” such as “the breast and groin areas of females and the groin area of males.” Show us your body, or we’ll feel you up.
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Now the plan is going nationwide. Joe Sharkey of the New York Times reports that TSA “plans to replace the walk-through metal detectors at airport checkpoints with whole-body imaging machines�the kind that provide an image of the naked body.” All passengers will “go through the whole-body imager instead of the walk-through metal detector,” according to TSA’s chief technology officer, and the machines will begin operating soon after orders are placed this summer.
When the scanners first appeared, I endorsed them. When they were upgraded to millimeter-wave technology, I endorsed them again. I gave two reasons. One reason was that a scan was less invasive than a pat-down. The other reason was that TSA promised to blur your face and keep your scan private, so that nobody would ever connect your name to your revealed body. That, I argued, was a sufficient kind of privacy in the age of terrorism.
April 11th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Millimeter wave imagery sounds like Teh Awesome! Where can I get one of these things?
If they aren’t doing cavity searches, terrorists can still get things on planes. Everyone knows this.
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April 12th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
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thetoxicbuttblast Reply:
April 12th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
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April 11th, 2009 at 11:20 am
do they scan the airport workers yet? i worked at YEG for 3 years and had homie the clown as my photo. noonce cared
April 12th, 2009 at 4:18 am
I think Barney Frank is behind this.
He has been seen toe tapping in airport bathrooms.
stupidamerkin Reply:
April 12th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
These scanners can pick out toe tappers as well.
April 12th, 2009 at 4:40 am
I believe they’re lying about the amount of x-ray used and they won’t release a statistic – it has to be harmful. Also there’s nothing to prevent some official from adding the head in a remote computer. This is just a computer program that can be adjusted. This new invasion of privacy should be challenged in court.
stupidamerkin Reply:
April 12th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
If you try to challenge this in court, you will be labeled a terrorist, arrested and taken to a secret prison to maybe never be seen again.
April 12th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
what terrorist charges would I get if Istrapped a large dildo to my leg or out my a-hole as a joke for the scanners to pass around
stupidamerkin Reply:
April 12th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
It wouldn’t matter. The higher the charge the bigger the bond.
April 12th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
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April 12th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....annel_page
April 12th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
I’VE READ THAT GEORGE W. BUSH HAS VOLUNTEERED AT THE T.S.A. TO PAT DOWN LITTLE BOYS…………….
April 12th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
This is fucking rediculous, and a total invasion of basic privacies. Yet, what will stop them from doing it? The REAL solution to all terrorism and tyranny is-
(Iv’e said it before i’ll say it again….)
FREEDOM SKIES AIRLINES.
Our motto? “You ain’t packin, you ain’t flyin…..”
911 could never have possibly happened on such an airline. And if you don’t own a handgun we will issue you one- NO FEE.
Of course we would still check for bombs and such. And don’t sell me that “cabin pressure” bullshit either- how do skydivers exit planes??? duh
Truth is, all this is happening because the government wants total control over the sheeple-
PERIOD
muymalgal Reply:
April 12th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
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April 12th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Oh, and by the way, shouldn’t large passenger airline cockpits be SEALED??? With their own food and restrooms? How fuckin hard would that be????
Don’t pretend that idea didn’t float around the engineering think tank at Boeing more than once, and was finally quelled by NATIONAL SECURITY……