NPR: Website Publishes 100 Pictures Of Federal Security Body Scans

NPR ^ | November 16, 2010 | Eyder Peralta

[a fool in paradise]

The government seizes every opportunity to take away our freedoms. Any excuse will do. 9/11 provided an excuse to search passengers to find drugs or contraband. It was not done primarily to prevent hijacking.

It stretches back even farther than that.

In the 1980s, the policy began of requiring a driver's license to board an airplane ("in the name of security"). The real reason the airlines wanted it was to prohibit the resale of an unused ticket from a roundtrip purchase (roundtrip tickets could be a lower combined fare than 2 one way tickets or maybe even just a single one way fare).

Driver's licenses did not prevent the 9-11 attacks and since 9-11-2001, corrupt employees at driver's license bureaus have been caught selling valid driver's licenses to middle eastern illegal aliens who have presented falsified information. Not just a case of the employee "not knowing", but the employee knowing and wanting a kickback for "approving" the license.

Require an internally recognized passport or no photo ID at all.

[a fool in paradise]

The government seizes every opportunity to take away our freedoms. Any excuse will do. 9/11 provided an excuse to search passengers to find drugs or contraband. It was not done primarily to prevent hijacking.

And contraband includes things like "more than 2 beanie babies" when you are entering America as well as bootleg concert cds. Not necessarily drugs, weapons, or agricultural products.

[Vinnie]

Those images are nonsense. Try these..(too graphic to post)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/inverted-body-scanner-image-shows-naked-body-in-full-living-color.html

From the website..
As we reported yesterday, claims that the body scanners did not provide details of genitals were disproven after a London Guardian journalist who was present at a trial for the machines earlier this week reported that the devices produce an image which make “genitals eerily visible.” German Security advisor Hans-Detlef Dau, a representative for a company that sells the scanners, admits that the machines, “show intimate piercings, catheters and the form of breasts and penises”....
A report from October 2008, when the naked body scanners were first being introduced at Melbourne Airport in Australia, detailed how the X-ray backscatter devices don’t work properly unless the genitals of people going through them are visible.

[Vinnie]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/inverted-body-scanner-image-shows-naked-body-in-full-living-color.html

sorry

[Luke21]

I’m really glad you did this and showed a woman’s intimate details. The media spin here is to assist in the imposition of tyranny through obfuscation and lies.

That statist fiend Hannity yesterday started arguing with the guy who is being harassed by the TSA, asking him what the big deal was about a scanner, and equating it to his wife seeing him naked. That spoke volumes about what an elitist statist type Hannity is.

[momtothree]

“Not exactly the pornography that some were itching about..”

Remember, these are only 100 photos of 35,000 that are kept. I have seen other photos that do show ... uh... anatomy. The government shows us what they want to show us and when they want to show us.