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Our take on . . .
TSA's Full-Body Scanners aka "Airporn Scanners" |
Baldy & The Blonde: On the front lines protesting Airporn Scanners
Sure, we're great looking and brilliant. We know that. But we're not just great looking and brilliant. We're also on the front lines, fighting DHS (Demonic Hegemonic Satanists) and TSA (Tyrannical Soulless Asswipes) and their dick-tate that you either get fondled or get naked before you can fly. Contrary to what Vinny Ravioli thinks, we did not take hostages to make our point, but we did let the New Orleans Aviation Board know what we think about the new procedures. We made Mark Antony and Cicero look like mealy-mouthed stutterers by comparison. Unfortunately, our best remarks were lost on the cutting-room floor at the Times Picks Yer News, but the following article will give you a taste. The headline was: "Great Looking and Brilliant Baldy & The Blonde Fight Demonic Hegemonic Satanists and Tyrannical Soulless Asswipes While the Rest of New Orleans Snoozes," or something like that.
Sure, we're great looking and brilliant. We know that. But we're not just great looking and brilliant. We're also on the front lines, fighting DHS (Demonic Hegemonic Satanists) and TSA (Tyrannical Soulless Asswipes) and their dick-tate that you either get fondled or get naked before you can fly. Contrary to what Vinny Ravioli thinks, we did not take hostages to make our point, but we did let the New Orleans Aviation Board know what we think about the new procedures. We made Mark Antony and Cicero look like mealy-mouthed stutterers by comparison. Unfortunately, our best remarks were lost on the cutting-room floor at the Times Picks Yer News, but the following article will give you a taste. The headline was: "Great Looking and Brilliant Baldy & The Blonde Fight Demonic Hegemonic Satanists and Tyrannical Soulless Asswipes While the Rest of New Orleans Snoozes," or something like that.
WHY WON'T THE PRESS SHOW YOU THE REAL PICTURE INSTEAD OF THE SILVER KEN DOLLS THEY KEEP PRETENDING ARE THE AIRPORT SCANS? ARE YOU WILLING TO HAVE YOUR FAMILY'S NAKED PHOTOS DATA BASED BY THE FEDS WHEN EVEN THEY ADMIT IT'S NOT FOR SECURITY BUT FOR SPEED?
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Read: "Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images"
Listen to our October 20, 2010, interview with Dr. Robert Stroud of the University of California, San Francisco Here is an excerpt:
Another issue is that the devices haven't been thoroughly tested. The TSA claims that the machines have been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, the Commerce Department's National Institute for Standards and Technology and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. When I called these organizations to ask about their evaluations, though, I learned that they basically tested only one thing -- whether the amount of radiation emitted meets guidelines established by the American National Standards Institute, a membership organization of companies and government agencies. But guess who was on the committee that developed the guidelines for the X-ray scanners? Representatives from the companies that make the machines and the Department of Homeland Security, among others. In other words, the machines passed a test developed, in part, by the companies that manufacture them and the government agency that wants to use them. |
 Image captured by airport body scan |
October 23, 2010
by Michele Gaudin
TSA inadvertently reveals truth regarding naked-body scanners
TSA inadvertently revealed two truths at a meeting held at Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, at a meeting before the New Orleans Aviation Board on Thursday, October 21, 2010. The following two facts became crystal clear in spite of attempts at obfuscation: 1) The scanners do indeed download images of your naked body; 2) The scanners are not any more effective that the procedures that are already in place and are not needed for security. In addition, it was learned you will still have to remove your shoes, remove all metallic and non-metallic jewelry, and generally be put through the same hassle, all the while being subjected to an intrusive, unnecessary, unconstitutional, and dangerous invasion of your privacy.
Ray White, TSA regional director, specifically answered Board questions and said that the scanners are incapable of downloading images. He also repeatedly said that the scanners are necessary for security. He was proven wrong by contradicting himself and another TSA spokesperson on each of these issues:
1) White made a PowerPoint presentation during which he described the procedure for a person being scanned. He stated that the person enters the booth and raises his or her arms, and that the scanner transmits an image to a TSA worker. White then made a truth-revealing error when he stated that before the next person enters the booth, the image is automatically deleted. Obviously, the only time something can be deleted is if it existed in the first place. Unfortunately and inexplicably, the press simply reported the deletion quote without adding that White had moments before assured the Board that the image could not be downloaded.
2) Then, White’s contention that this invasive, unconstitutional, unnecessary indignity is necessary for security was destroyed by the following excerpt from an article by Steve Strunsky in the New Jersey Star Ledger, October 14, 2010, which revealed that it is for speed and is no better than the current screening methods. Some of the press reported this as my contention, instead of supplying the quote, as follows:
“Ann Davis, a TSA spokeswoman, insisted passengers are no less safe at airports without the full-body scanners, which she said are not necessarily more effective screening measures than metal detectors, pat-downs and behavioral profiling. Rather, she stressed, scanners are simply meant to be faster and less physically intrusive.
" ‘We don’t want to lead people to think that we don’t have the capacity to get at those threats now. We do,’ Davis said.”
Further, the scanners have been discontinued is parts of Europe. Muslims refuse to go through them because of the offense to their religion. And thus, the U.S. stands alone as once again pointing the barrel of the police state at the United States citizen.
Additionally, as pointed out below, Michael Chertoff of the Chertoff Group, has a client who manufactures some of the body scanners that sell for $190,000.
I concluded my presentation to the Board by reminding the board of the famous words of Benjamin Franklin, that "he who would sacrifice liberty for security deserves neither", by reminding them that in this case we are sacrificing liberty not even for the unacceptable but at least understandable goal of security, but for speed.
by Michele Gaudin
TSA inadvertently reveals truth regarding naked-body scanners
TSA inadvertently revealed two truths at a meeting held at Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, at a meeting before the New Orleans Aviation Board on Thursday, October 21, 2010. The following two facts became crystal clear in spite of attempts at obfuscation: 1) The scanners do indeed download images of your naked body; 2) The scanners are not any more effective that the procedures that are already in place and are not needed for security. In addition, it was learned you will still have to remove your shoes, remove all metallic and non-metallic jewelry, and generally be put through the same hassle, all the while being subjected to an intrusive, unnecessary, unconstitutional, and dangerous invasion of your privacy.
Ray White, TSA regional director, specifically answered Board questions and said that the scanners are incapable of downloading images. He also repeatedly said that the scanners are necessary for security. He was proven wrong by contradicting himself and another TSA spokesperson on each of these issues:
1) White made a PowerPoint presentation during which he described the procedure for a person being scanned. He stated that the person enters the booth and raises his or her arms, and that the scanner transmits an image to a TSA worker. White then made a truth-revealing error when he stated that before the next person enters the booth, the image is automatically deleted. Obviously, the only time something can be deleted is if it existed in the first place. Unfortunately and inexplicably, the press simply reported the deletion quote without adding that White had moments before assured the Board that the image could not be downloaded.
2) Then, White’s contention that this invasive, unconstitutional, unnecessary indignity is necessary for security was destroyed by the following excerpt from an article by Steve Strunsky in the New Jersey Star Ledger, October 14, 2010, which revealed that it is for speed and is no better than the current screening methods. Some of the press reported this as my contention, instead of supplying the quote, as follows:
“Ann Davis, a TSA spokeswoman, insisted passengers are no less safe at airports without the full-body scanners, which she said are not necessarily more effective screening measures than metal detectors, pat-downs and behavioral profiling. Rather, she stressed, scanners are simply meant to be faster and less physically intrusive.
" ‘We don’t want to lead people to think that we don’t have the capacity to get at those threats now. We do,’ Davis said.”
Further, the scanners have been discontinued is parts of Europe. Muslims refuse to go through them because of the offense to their religion. And thus, the U.S. stands alone as once again pointing the barrel of the police state at the United States citizen.
Additionally, as pointed out below, Michael Chertoff of the Chertoff Group, has a client who manufactures some of the body scanners that sell for $190,000.
I concluded my presentation to the Board by reminding the board of the famous words of Benjamin Franklin, that "he who would sacrifice liberty for security deserves neither", by reminding them that in this case we are sacrificing liberty not even for the unacceptable but at least understandable goal of security, but for speed.
