Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Invasion of the naked body scanners
MSN ^ | March 3, 2007, at 7:32 AM ET | By William Saletan

Posted on 03/05/2007 6:55:35 PM PST by JarhedAirmanPatriot

Last week, TSA began using backscatters at airports to screen passengers for weapons. The first machine is up and running in Phoenix. The next ones will be in New York and Los Angeles. The machines have been modified with a "privacy algorithm" to clean up what they show. But even the tempered images tell you more than you need to know about the endowments of the people seated next to you.

This is no joke. The government needs to look under your clothes. Ceramic knives, plastic guns, and liquid explosives have made metal detectors obsolete. Carry-on bags are X-rayed, so the safest place to hide a weapon is on your body. Puffer machines can detect explosives on you, but only if you're sloppy. Backscatters are different. They can scan your whole surface, locating and identifying anything of unusual density—not just metals, which have high atomic numbers, but drugs and explosives, which have low ones.

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; airport; border; donutwatch; fullbodyxray; norighttoprivacy; recordedpictures; scanner; security; stripsearch
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-26 next last
They are doing this in Az, digital strip search on our citizens and how many cross the border because no patrol or wall....... priorities people
1 posted on 03/05/2007 6:55:39 PM PST by JarhedAirmanPatriot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: JarhedAirmanPatriot

old news x 4 or 5 posts...


2 posted on 03/05/2007 6:57:59 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JarhedAirmanPatriot

Get over it.....


3 posted on 03/05/2007 6:59:31 PM PST by Ben Mugged (Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JarhedAirmanPatriot

Maybe this explains what that Northwest employee does when he isn't ejaculating on passengers on his day off.


4 posted on 03/05/2007 7:03:12 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ben Mugged

So you're OK with this intrusion? Total strangers ogling your cellulite?


5 posted on 03/05/2007 7:05:04 PM PST by DLfromthedesert (Texas Cowboy...graduated to Glory)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

Comment #6 Removed by Moderator

To: Ben Mugged

Sounds an awful lot like "better put some ice on that".

Would you submit to random body cavity searches at the airport too? A government expert already figured out how much piastic explosive could be held in lower cavities.


7 posted on 03/05/2007 7:05:36 PM PST by weegee (Carbon credits are nothing but the Global Warming movement's way of selling indugences.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: JarhedAirmanPatriot

I'm going to put an English cucumber in my pocket and give'em a thrill.


8 posted on 03/05/2007 7:05:37 PM PST by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DLfromthedesert

Yep! Mine is the body beautiful.


9 posted on 03/05/2007 7:06:23 PM PST by Ben Mugged (Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: JarhedAirmanPatriot

This technology is gonna prove to be spectacular... once it hits You Tube....


10 posted on 03/05/2007 7:06:25 PM PST by FDNYRHEROES (Always bring a liberal to a gunfight)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DaveLoneRanger

just wait till you see Hillary go through this thing, uhhh


11 posted on 03/05/2007 7:07:18 PM PST by JarhedAirmanPatriot (Oohrah, Semper Fi and God Bless Our Troops)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: weegee

Whatever it takes. Try getting on a C-130 to Diego Garcia some time.


12 posted on 03/05/2007 7:07:55 PM PST by Ben Mugged (Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: JarhedAirmanPatriot

I do fly planes; I don't cross the border.


13 posted on 03/05/2007 7:11:07 PM PST by muawiyah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JarhedAirmanPatriot

The old "plastic gun" lie is back!


14 posted on 03/05/2007 7:12:13 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (BUAIDH NO BAS, JUST SAY NO TO RINO!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JarhedAirmanPatriot

15 posted on 03/05/2007 7:13:06 PM PST by P.O.E.
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JarhedAirmanPatriot
What Airport Security Sees
16 posted on 03/05/2007 7:14:35 PM PST by Disambiguator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Disambiguator

all the money for this and nothing on the border, I guess you could say that I have a bad attitude, but when my wife was pregnant and couldn't work because of complications, North Carolina wouldn't give me, a veteran and a tax payer, any help with the medical costs..... but an ILLEGAL had gotten a tax payer paid heart surgery..... what is wrong with this picture


17 posted on 03/05/2007 7:18:04 PM PST by JarhedAirmanPatriot (Oohrah, Semper Fi and God Bless Our Troops)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Disambiguator

Yep, Looks like it already made it to You Tube...


18 posted on 03/05/2007 7:19:26 PM PST by FDNYRHEROES (Always bring a liberal to a gunfight)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: FDNYRHEROES

It's been posted there about 100 times.


19 posted on 03/05/2007 7:20:57 PM PST by Disambiguator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: JarhedAirmanPatriot

It gets down to this...get naked or take the Greyhound.


20 posted on 03/05/2007 7:22:42 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-26 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson