Full-Body Scanners - Protection or Invasion?

But secret documents (which are not so secret anymore) uncovered by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (www.EPIC.org) have revealed that these machines do indeed posses precisely such capabilities. According to TSA specification requirement documents that have been uncovered by the EPIC, all full-body scanners purchased by the TSA must have the ability to both save and transmit the scanned images of air passengers. These documents were obtained by a FOIA request and have been shown on CNN and other major news channels.

Take a look at the images that the TSA will be looking at, and you tell me if this is acceptable or if is invasion of privacy.

Notice that the photo of the scan clearly shows male and female genitalia. In any other situation, taking that picture would be some kind of violation, especially without the express written permission of the traveler. If the TSA is taking scans of person that is considered to be a minor, then they are breaking child porn laws!! Anyone else would be prosecuted for a felony!! But this is deemed to be OK when done by the TSA.

I would venture to say that these new “full-body-porno” scanners utilized by the TSA might humiliate many Americans (at least those who have never posed nude for Playboy or Playgirl). I know that I will NEVER allow my wife or children to be scanned by some pervert working in the airport...

Our founding fathers are ROLLING OVER IN THEIR GRAVES right now. This type of invasion is the reason they wrote the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. This is the pinnacle of invasion of our privacy under the guise of “war against terrorism” and sanctioned by the Patriot Act, which is perhaps the most unpatriotic document ever signed into law!

Despite the attitude of several of our recent Presidents concerning the U.S. Constitution, as far as I know, it's still the law of the land. So please tell me where in the Constitution and Bill of Rights does it say our civil rights don't apply in airports? What about little things like “probable cause” and freedom from “unreasonable search and seizure”? Has anyone heard of the 4th amendment?

Is the mere desire to fly on an airplane considered probable cause? Anyone who says, “If it makes us safer, I'm OK with it” just doesn’t get it!!  It DOESN’T make us safer, and it makes us all a little bit less free.

At best, this is intrusive and unethical, and at worst, illegal.

As if this weren't enough, WHAT ABOUT THE RADIATION?  Isn’t it illegal to expose people to radiation without medical justification? How is the government allowed to forcibly irradiate us at airports? What about the deleterious effects on women in their first trimester of pregnancy, when the risks of the baby developing genetic abnormalities (caused by radiation damaging the DNA) are the highest?

Dr. John W. Gofman, an authority on the health effects of ionizing radiation, estimates that 75% of breast cancer could be prevented by avoiding or minimizing exposure to the ionizing radiation. His exhaustive research led him to conclude that there is NO SAFE DOSE-LEVEL of radiation, since it is equivalent to dropping “grenades and small bombs” on human cells.

Exposure to radiation is dangerous, whether we are talking about typical ionizing radiation or the terahertz radiation used in many full-body scanners. A study conducted by Boian Alexandrov (and colleagues) at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico indicated that terahertz radiation has the potential to literally rip apart or unzip double-stranded DNA. This, in turn, creates bubbles that could interfere with critical processes (like DNA replication and gene expression).

As I mentioned previously, Big Brother’s “zap” madness is a predictable result of America’s post 9/11 security hysteria. Just in case you weren’t aware, it’s straight from the Nazi playbook. Those who dissent with the government are called “traitors” and told that they “hate America.” I have personally experienced this. Take a look at a quote from Hermann Goering, Hitler's "right-hand-man":

This is EXACTLY what has happened in the USA since 9/11. If you DARE to question the government, you are quickly labeled as being “unpatriotic.” And thus America continues our march toward becoming a police state . . .

But believe it or not, most Americans LOVE the loss of freedoms! According to a recent Zogby poll, most of the American “sheeple” who are traveling through airports APPROVE of the long lines and gridlock at the TSA screening points, because they “feel safer.” Oh isn’t that special? These “happy campers” should be delighted to learn about TSA nazi’s grossly invasive new “naked-full-body-zap” security plans.

These airport scanners should be banned. Radiation damages the DNA in your cells and much more. It accumulates in the body during one's lifetime and when it reaches a certain level, cancer is nearly certain. Americans who are still able to think must launch an effort to save ourselves and warn others! Let’s demand that Congress mandate TSA’s “porno-radiation” experiments be strictly voluntary. We must DEMAND our right to abstain from security procedures that will harm us and our children (both born and unborn).

According to Ben Franklin: “They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.”  How many rights are you willing to sacrifice in the name of security? For me and my family, the answer is: NONE!!