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A few months ago, I first wrote about the TSA’s naked body scanners and how it could allow Big Brother to view and store pictures of your naked body (plus the naked bodies of your children, too). At that time, my story was met with a reaction of derision from a few people outside the usual NaturalNews readership who said my story was nothing but “paranoia” and that the government had promised it would never record or store full body scan images. The very equipment used to view the body scans was incapable of storing those images, we were told. (These loons apparently think governments never lie…)
Well, as much as I hate to say, “I told ya so,” it turns out I was right (and so was Alex Jones and others who spoke out against the TSA’s naked body scanners). As reported today by Declan McCullagh from CNET, “The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.” (http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-2…)
That same story points to a recently released document (http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/b…) proving that the TSA actually requires its equipment to be able to record and store naked body images. This, despite the fact that the TSA publicly stated, “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.” It turns out they were flat-out lying.
So now we have an admission by the TSA that their equipment is, in fact, capable of storing these naked body images. On top of that, we have an admission that federal agents used that same technology to scan tens of thousands of people while secretly saving those images, too.
More naked body scanners coming to U.S. airports
Just two weeks ago, by the way, Big Sis Janet Napolitano announced that these full body scanners would be installed in nearly every major U.S. airport. So get ready have your private parts scanned and recorded by TSA agents, because that’s what could be coming soon to an airport near you.
Another fascinating twist in this story concerns the current location of the more than 35,000 naked body scan images stored on the machine used at a federal courthouse. The machine was apparently returned to the manufacturer. This means the company that makes the full body scanners now reportedly possesses 35,000+ pictures showing the nude bodies of American citizens whose images were scanned and recorded without their knowledge!
“TSA is not being straightforward with the public about the capabilities of these devices,” said Electronic Privacy Information Center executive director Marc Rotenberg (in the CNET story). “This is the Department of Homeland Security subjecting every U.S. traveler to an intrusive search that can be recorded without any suspicion — I think it’s outrageous.”
Balancing security with privacy
Now, certainly we probably need some level of security in our airports. I’m not disagreeing with that premise. There are some bad people in the world who will try to do ugly things in order to prove a point. But magnetometers (metal detector) work just fine, and even a pat-down is less intrusive than a naked image body scanner. Personally, I would much rather submit to a pat-down than a naked body scan.
The more important issue here is that our own government has been lying to us about all this. They said these machines could not record images, and now we find out they could record all along. This worsens the privacy violations by adding a level of deceit. Now how can we trust that other full body scanners aren’t also recording images?
The truth is, we can’t.
And besides, as I suggested before, there’s one really good way to make sure we’re safe in the air. I call it “Armed Airlines.” We should have the choice of an airline where everybody is armed. You have to pack a firearm and a concealed carry license (or a police badge or military ID) just to board the plane. No terrorist or troublemaker in his right mind would dare pull anything on that flight — not with 250 other passengers armed, too.
I would gladly join that flight, and I’d sleep like a baby. Why? Because it would be the safest airplane in the sky. I also know quite a few airline pilots who would gladly pilot those flights, and they’d have their own firearms on the flight control deck, too.
Because right now, what we really have is a nation of disarmed airlines where nobody can carry firearms except Federal Air Marshals. They’re good guys, but there just aren’t enough of them to go around. I’d like to see “Armed Airlines” flying. And besides, Armed Airlines would be the only flights guaranteed not to have screaming babies sitting right behind you.A few months ago, I first wrote about the TSA’s naked body scanners and how it... more
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Did you hear about the Camden cop whose disabled son wasn't allowed to pass through airport security unless he took off his leg braces?
Unfortunately, it's no joke. This happened to Bob Thomas, a 53-year-old officer in Camden's emergency crime suppression team, who was flying to Orlando in March with his wife, Leona, and their son, Ryan.
Ryan was taking his first flight, to Walt Disney World, for his fourth birthday.
The boy is developmentally delayed, one of the effects of being born 16 weeks prematurely. His ankles are malformed and his legs have low muscle tone. In March he was just starting to walk.
The boy's father broke down the stroller and put it on the conveyor belt as Leona Thomas walked Ryan through the metal detector.
The alarm went off.
The screener told them to take off the boy's braces.
The Thomases were dumbfounded. "I told them he can't walk without them on his own," Bob Thomas said.
"He said, 'He'll need to take them off.' "
Ryan's mother offered to walk him through the detector after they removed the braces, which are custom-made of metal and hardened plastic.
No, the screener replied. The boy had to walk on his own.
They complied, and Leona went first, followed by Ryan, followed by Bob, so the boy wouldn't be hurt if he fell. Ryan made it through.
By then, Bob Thomas was furious. He demanded to see a supervisor. The supervisor asked what was wrong.
"I told him, 'This is overkill. He's 4 years old. I don't think he's a terrorist.' "
The supervisor replied, "You know why we're doing this," Thomas said.
more at link...
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.
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Being an archaeologist is much more than being able to find the next big piece of history; it's about being fashionable while you do it.
The metal detector sandals from creators Hammacher Schlemmer, allow budding discoverers to feel the vibrations and buzzes from the anklet pack whenever they step over a metal object as low as 2 feet beneath the surface.Being an archaeologist is much more than being able to find the next big piece of... more
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The increasing popularity of metal detectors has helped boost the number of treasure finds last year.
The Treasure Annual Report revealed that 749 objects in total were found last year.The increasing popularity of metal detectors has helped boost the number of treasure... more
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A keen treasure hunter has struck gold, after his metal detector guided him to a rare Anglo-Saxon cross in the middle of a muddy farmer's field....A keen treasure hunter has struck gold, after his metal detector guided him to a rare... more
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'A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.
...She was taken behind a curtain and managed to remove one bar-shaped piercing but had trouble with the second, a ring.
...She said she heard male TSA agents snickering as she took out the ring. She was scanned again and was allowed to board even though she still was wearing a belly button ring.'
TSA instructs boarding passengers to remove all rings, excess jewelry, and change from pockets. Was the treatment of this woman within the TSA's rights of inspection, or did they go too far?'A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in... more
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