Posted on 11/21/2010 5:03:54 AM PST by DanMiller
The mainstream media ask all the wrong questions. A CBS survey concluded that:
Americans overwhelmingly approve of the use of full-body digital x-ray machines — a new technology in use at some airports in the U.S. Most, meanwhile, do not approve of racial or ethnic profiling — a practice not in place.The following questions apparently were not asked: “Have you or an immediate family member flown on a commercial airliner in the United States since November 1, 2010?” and “Do you or an immediate member of your family intend to fly on a commercial airliner in the United States in the near future? If not, have your plans been changed on account of recent changes in airport security procedures?”
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At very lease, set your cell phone to make an audio recording, press record as you send it through the scanner, and demand to be in the vicinity of your things when searched (ostensibly to avoid theft.)
consider the source ! cBS !
Anyone willing to go through a Big Brother scanner and who is stupid enough to believe Big Brother these days, would be wise to talk to an oncologist who knows about radiation. I’ve heard of four doctors that say “don’t” go through them.
It’s your health and, if you don’t care that in a few years you are diagnosed with cancer because of these machines, hey go for it.
“I’ll walk right through with a smile on my face” Can we assume you will walk right into the FEMA camps the same way?
Are you afraid to travel on the subway because they don’t use electronic strip search on every passenger? Do you realize trains are a more likely target for Muslim terrorists than planes? Are you aware of the TSA, in their entire history, of catching even one terrorist?
We are paying billions of dollars for ineffective security theater that is also conditioning the public to accept any indignity by the government in the name of “national security”.
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Posted on Sunday, November 21, 2010 9:49:06 AM by KeyLargo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2630840/posts
Don't fly. The cards mean nothing today -- you'll get the full inspection.
My late Dad had a pacemaker, and we were given such a wallet sized card.
As a hard core conservative, I agree with you. The federal government should be tiny, but its main task is security. I’m all for better scanners, even if the next advance isn’t perfect for everyone. All of this hullabaloo about going “nude” in this scanner is exaggerated tripe that I would expect from liberals. No one is nude. Not even close.
The hollerers routinely go to medical clinics for safety’s sake and go actually nude, not “nude.” Or they go into a damn gym locker room, for pete’s sake. Or a men’s urinal, where privacy is a joke and where many other people can watch a person perform a bodily function.
Conservatives are not doing themselves a favor de-fanging airline security. Because this is where is it headed. Some of the libertarian fringe have come right out an said here on this site.
Intensity isn't everything; wavelengths matter. And questions have been raised about DNA resonance effects of the millimeter-wave machines.
I know the scanners don’t detect everything but I don’t care. I want them there. I want as much anti-bomb technology as possible.
So presumably you won't mind when your plane is blown up by a body-cavity bomb which none of this will detect (maybe it can be disguised by adding packets of cocaine?), or a bomb carried by a Muslim under her burka somewhere below her shoulders where Obama says she cannot be patted down, right?
But if you're happy with this, then good on you.
The REAL problem is that NO one wants to call a spade a spade. Muslims want to rid the earth of infidels. That's YOU Dan baby! And me. To accomplish this goal they are willing to hijack airliners, fly them into populated buildings, plant roadside bombs, send young children into busy markets strapped with explosives to kill as many innocent people as possible, behead innocent Christians and jews, and even stone their own women to death after they've been raped!
These are EVIL people Dan. get with the program. And until every last Muslim is gone, NO Christian, Jew or innocent will be safe.
Just because the scanner doesn’t perform EVERY security function is not a logical argument for removing it from the quiver of countermeasures.
Not every FReeper agrees about the scanners, OK?
Everyone here agrees with you about the source of the problem being Muslim. The disagreement is how to ID them at the airport. And ID any paid, tricked or sympathetic person who may white, female, old, young, or non-Muslim without a record, and who STILL harbor weapons and/or explosives.
Because al Qaeda and other violent Muslims are always probing for ways for defeat security. Sending in the non-obvious is one of their later adaptations.
One FReeper on one of these threads said that, as part of profiling, Israelis interview everyone. Personally, I’d rather spend a minute going through a scanner, perfect or not.
I agree that CBS is not a very good source. However, Rasmussen is generally better and, as noted in the article, I found its poll question incomprehensible; I would not have been able to respond.
They want to demoralize all of us,
TSA apologists like you deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
We may all go marching into the camps together, but the fascists will shoot you too, even if you smile at them and ask for a kiss.
So presumably you won't mind when your plane is blown up by a body-cavity bomb which none of this will detect (maybe it can be disguised by adding packets of cocaine?), or a bomb carried by a Muslim under her burka somewhere below her shoulders where Obama says she cannot be patted down, right?You did NOT read what I wrote and you PRESUME to know what I think.
I wrote that I KNOW the scanners won't find everything but I want as much anti-bomb technology as I can get.
That does NOT mean I'd be happy with someone who figures out a way of thwarting that technology.
And I SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED that I am totally and completely opposed to any kind of exemption for muzzies.
So please read what I write before commenting on what you THINK I said.
Jerk.
Thank you, qwertypie, for your excellent post. I’m going to link to it in my replies in the future.
As a hard core conservative, I agree with you [that more anti-bomb technology is a good thing]. The federal government should be tiny, but its main task is security. I’m all for better scanners, even if the next advance isn’t perfect for everyone. All of this hullabaloo about going “nude” in this scanner is exaggerated tripe that I would expect from liberals. No one is nude. Not even close.-- qwertypie#29The hollerers routinely go to medical clinics for safety’s sake and go actually nude, not “nude.” Or they go into a damn gym locker room, for pete’s sake. Or a men’s urinal, where privacy is a joke and where many other people can watch a person perform a bodily function.
Conservatives are not doing themselves a favor de-fanging airline security. Because this is where is it headed. Some of the libertarian fringe have come right out an said here on this site.
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