Tech | October 22, 2010 | 6 comments

An Open Letter to the Walt Disney Company

source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/krolman1.1.1.html

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Dear Mr. Iger,

I am writing for your advice about how to best enjoy a great Walt Disney World experience with the new prohibitive TSA/commercial airlines "security" shenanigans.

My wife and I have two children (one strapping 14 year old boy and our beautiful little girl, 12). They would just love to go to Disney World and we would love to take them – but now we don't know how to get there!

Please allow me to graphically explain. On the way to Disney World at the airport, United States government agents now force children and their parents to make a difficult choice between:

1. a dose of ionizing radiation on your skin to create a nude image on the government's computer screen.

2. a government agent using his gloved fingers to grope/frisk/probe the exterior of the child's entire clothed body (including inspection of private parts)

3. police escort to interrogation by TSA security as to your reasons for refusing the above two choices

As you can imagine, none of these choices appeals to us. Other than a fleet of Disney private planes or opening scaled-down Disney World resorts all across the country, how do you recommend that paying customers get to your resorts if decent caring for their children now prohibits them from using commercial airlines?

Now that you are aware that children must submit to nude photography or inspection of private parts in order to enjoy the Disney experience (and on the way home), your silence on this issue may be seen by many as passive agreement with this new pathway to your business, which I am sure is not the case.

Please confirm.

Regards,
Arthur M.M. Krolman
CFA Founder and President
Krolman Corporation
56 Roland St., Suite 201 Boston, MA 02129
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6 comments // An Open Letter to the Walt Disney Company

  • CarolineS
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      CarolineS  

    • This hyper security stuff sickens me, yeah we had the terrorists attacks, that were orchestrated, they had nothing to do with past security measures, more so the corruption of our 'un'elected officials. But as always it is the average innocent joe's and jane's thathave their human rights abused, i would not want to go through that perverted naked checkpoint, images that the are then recorded and saved (although they try to tell us they don't)
      I havent flew in a while, but am not looking forward to it, where possible I will go by boat.
      It was ridiculous enough that at amsterdam, schipol airport i bought a bottle of sprite, an was told to either open and drink it now before passing the checkpoints, or it had to be placed in a see through bag only to be opened once past the checkpoint, you know just incase i put a bomb in it, the gentleman who sold me it at the shop even agreed with me the ridiculousness of it all!

      bottom line: Governemnt doesnt want terrorists to blow up planes? easy. Stop giving them the money to try!!

    • 2 years ago
  • maasanova
  • ayipis
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      ayipis  

    • we can always profile.............or we can scan..or we can just hope no one blows the fucking place up..

      decisions decisions..

    • 2 years ago
  • UtopianSky
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      UtopianSky  

    • You know, they could alter the image processing software so the contrast is increased- if all the lighter areas (flesh) were a solid white silhouette, and all the possible objects were solid black, security could still see hidden objects, and people's privacy would be preserved.

    • 2 years ago
  • UtopianSky
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      UtopianSky  
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    • UtopianSky:

      I goggled to see if there are technology alternatives so everyone can be happy, and there are:

      http://www.technewsdaily.com/lawsuit-filed-over-airport-scanner-privacy-health-c...

      Some companies, such as Millivision, are currently developing privacy-protecting, passive millimeter wave technology that uses no radiation.

      As a person walks through Millivision’s system, the screener sees an image of the passenger fully clothed. The potential threats, such as a weapon, are highlighted in red.

      “The technology is not only safe from radiation, it also ensures that the intimate details of a passenger’s body are not exposed,” said Millivision president Paul Nicholas.

      The passive millimeter wave scanners have already been tested and implemented by the Federal Courthouse in Washington D.C. and a few other places.

      “We plan to bring our technology to the TSA for testing in this country and then to others in the near future,” Nicholas said.

      “There needs to be a safe and private scanning system that accomplishes security screening that is not invasive. We hope the TSA recognizes passive millimeter wave systems as a powerful next-generation solution."

    • 2 years ago
  • maasanova
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