In a new attempt to curb terrorism on airplanes and in airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced this week that they plan on making full body scanners mandatory. The full body scanners, which produce an image and show any object carried by an individual, are already in use at several airports across the country.
One of the largest concerns regarding flying and traveling for many individuals is the threat of terrorism and suicide bombers. After 911 and various other terrorist attempts, the TSA finally feels that the full body scanners will be a huge deterrent in preventing future attacks.
While 21 airports across the country have already purchased at least one full body scanner, some are concerned that the cost of installing the body scanners will prevent many airports from getting one. The scanners that are approved for use by the TSA will cost anywhere between $130,000 and $170,000. Despite the cost, the TSA has planned on sending more of the machines to airports across the country.
The new body scan process has received other criticism saying that it will drastically delay the boarding and security time. Unless airports receive multiple scanners, security lines are likely to increase in length.
I called TSA and they maintain that they are voluntary. I have a flight planed for June so I asked if I could expect them to be mandatory by then and she just told me that they are voluntary and wouldn’t say whether they would be mandatory by June. I asked if I could expect to be treated the same if I refused the scanner and she said yes. I’m calling a lawyer ahead of time just in case, but I am not going through that stupid thing.
I had the same thing. Before leaving for Las Vegas I called the TSA. They stated that it was voluntary.
The body scanners were not install in all the terminals. The terninal I went to didn’t have them yet. I was told by the TSA, “they are coming”.
For now on I will call the TSA everytime I travel.
This is all just another scam like the War of Terror, H1N1, AGW, etc. Here’s the whole story with links you can copy and paste into your address bar: http://www.ehow.com/how_5947264_cut-through-bullshit_-body-scanners.html
Years ago (when body scanner first came out) we were told they would be “voluntary”. It is obvious now that it was always intended to be mandatory from day one! Governments realize they need to tip-toe in order to remove our rights. Had they just installed them and made them mandatory from the get-go, we would have revolted.
First, I refuse to be view naked just so I can fly. Don’t be deceived!; these unit have hard drives, therefore they MUST hold your image on the hard drive! They can tell you all day that they don’t have the ability to “save” your picture…this is an outright lie!
Second, there is evidence that these scanner may be hazardous to your health! Anytime you bounce radio waves off a person there is ALWAYS a risk of damage to your DNA. There are many doctors/specialists that are suggesting the TSA is either ignorant of this, or aware and simply misleading the public.
Lastly, why should I give up my rights so I can fly? I am a law abiding citizen. I have no criminal record, yet I’m being treated as one each and every time I want to fly. How long before these scanner become mandatory at Train stations, Buss terminals, Court houses, Schools, and eventually YOU OWN OFFICE!
Stand up now and refuse these scanners before you wake up living in police state.
your comment is brilliant- could not have said it better myself.
i have been refusing dental x-rays for years because of the radiation; i am certainly not going to delibertly subject myself to ones just because i want to visit my brain damaged brother-who by the way is in a nursing home because of a near fatal car crash. i quess i will never see him again.
what is it going to take to wake up the world?
They already admitted that even if they used the body scanners before the underwear that it would of never caught him
They have already admitted that he was walked on the airplane and not stopped
We’ve already heard about one convicted TSA sexual predator, and I’m sure there are plenty more of them. Who wants their wife or children having a virtual strip search performed by a possible sex offender? Besides, these machines would not have been able to find the type of explosive that has been used as an excuse to put these virtual strip search devices into every airport. Studies have shown that these machines can’t pick up light plastics, which is what was used in the botched Christmas Day attack (link http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1241430/Airport-scanners-revealed-TravelMail-puts-new-airport-security-technology-test.html)
Educate yourself and say no to the latest threat to personal freedom/dignity. You don’t need to see everybody naked to secure an airplane. If we let them get away with this, then expect to see these things in courthouses, schools, sporting events/concerts, and eventually everywhere you go you’ll be strip searched to make sure you aren’t a “terrorist”.
P.S.
Doesn’t anybody find it suspicious that the United States went to great lengths to allow the Underwear Bomber on a flight with hundreds of people knowing that he was planning on conducting terrorism?
http://www.infowars.com/government-allowed-plane-bomber-to-attempt-attack/
Well I will never be traveling in planes I guess. What a sad thing we are letting our governments do to us.
I hope you like Cancer btw.
Jake, good idea calling a lawyer ahead of time!
or permanent DNA DAMAGE
NO ONE WANTS THIS
REVOLT!!!!!!
I think we need to have a boycott of airline travel….
I am in the process of writing trave companies that I have used in the past to tell them that I will not use air travel if it means being strip searched. $$$ they understand.
Speaking of which, I also remember hearing that Chernoff owns stock in the company that makes the scanner
hey many ppl have no other choice BUT to use airline travel so mass refusal would be more effective than a boycott although you ARE on the right track.
The businesses aren’t the ones requiring them, the government is. All they can do when they get your letter is say sorry, and tell you they can’t do anything about it.
It would be more effective if people started writing their senators and house members.
Just another attempt by our shadow government to increase cancer rates and depopulation. poisoning our food, water and using chemtrails isn’t killing off enough people fast enough for the illuminati. Why aren’t these american/european billionaire terrorists behind bars already. It’s 5 billion to 1000 illuminati mass murderers. We know they are doing all the terrorist attacks. We know they just want more war, power and depopulation.
Yes, it’s People Irradiation.
This article is so full of shit.
First, PEOPLE DON’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE COST, THEY GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THEIR LIBERTIES AND PRIVACY RIGHTS.
Second, PEOPLE AREN’T SCARED OF TERRORISTS, IF THEY ARE, THEY SHOULDN’T FLY SINCE THEY ARE WIMPS.
what if they have boxcutters though?
You can’t be serious. All box cutters are razor blades, so they are made of ………come on you know the answer to this question…… oh come on I know you can answer this…….. fine I will spell it out for you. M-E-T-A-L, oh my, yes something the M-E-T-A-L D-E-T-E-C-T-O-R would catch. OMG, feeling stupid. You are. Wake up. And pray tell how the hell can a person high-jack a plane with a box cutter, get real man this is serious not a game. You will one day wake up and find yourself being asked this question, ” Papers please!” and if you don’t know what that means go do some reading on the Nazi’s.
Good day!
Just say “No.” Enough is enough!
TSA: Single digit IQ’s.
I want to see Obama, wife and his kids all go though a bunch of times then OK with me. till then I think it sucks.
this country is being controlled by corporate interest and they are stomping on everythig our grandfathers fought for. your little children being gawked at naked by the fing govt of the USA? The moment this is true Osama has defeated the USA
The mainstream media will continue to obediently outline the talking points as directed to them by their overlord and spew out articles like this, blindly saying that vaccines are mandatory, carbon taxes are required, health care will be forced on everyone, and body scanners are a prerequisite for travel. However, 9 out of 10 people in the comments section expose the BS (and the 10th person is often a shill for the media, or the author himself, sans nads).
Now listen to me you illegitimate, tennis-playing step-nephews of the Rockefellers: I hereby refuse to take a vaccine, pay a carbon tax, pay the government for health care, have my blood taken by a police officer, or submit to a body scan. Bring it on.
I like how taking a picture of your daughter swimming in your own back yard in a bikini is illegal and can get you thrown in jail for child porn, but these guys can look at our kids naked bodies as long as they say the magic incantation “It prevents terrorism.”
This is not normal, folks.
World, is is time to stand up!!! They are the terroist not Osama. The goverment, the feds and now the TSA all have one plan, to Take away our natural born rights. Stop letting them, stand up for your rights!
All of this is BS!!! Screw the TSA
It’s a matter of how much freedom we are willing to give up in the “name of security”. This government is out of control and we have been loosing our rights little by little. It’s time we start investigating into things yourself and stop relying on the media for our information.
Please notice that this article states,
“The new body scan process has received other criticism saying that it will drastically delay the boarding and security time. Unless airports receive multiple scanners, security lines are likely to increase in length. ”
Not one word mentions concerns about health, freedoms, violations of our freedoms, concerns about what the viewers can see of our bodies. Just a line about long lines unless they purchase “MORE”….. Yet read the comments that have been left. These are the real concerns, if you are not aware that all media is censored you better start becoming aware. Just read the article again and tell me it was fair and unbiased to it’s topic.
Wake up America, we already live in a highly policed state.
Michelle
Hundreds Of Americans File Complaints Over Naked Body Scanners
Rising wave of anger in response to virtual strip-search contradicts media spin
By Paul Joseph Watson
Global Research, March 18, 2010
Prison Planet – 2010-03-17
Despite establishment media spin that naked body scanners are being meekly accepted by a compliant public, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that there have been more than 600 formal complaints about the devices in the last year.
Furthermore, the documents reveal anger at TSA officials for refusing to offer passengers a pat-down alternative, as well as forcing children to go through machines which provide crisp images of genitalia, a particularly outrageous scenario in light of last week’s story concerning a TSA worker who was charged with multiple child sex crimes having raped an underage girl.
“Hundreds of U.S. air travelers have lodged complaints over use of full-body security scanners in the past year, charging they violate personal privacy and may be harmful to their health, documents released on Tuesday showed,” reports Reuters.
The Reuters piece amounts to little more than another whitewash of the issue, claiming that privacy filters blur sensitive areas of the body, an assertion contradicted by other journalists who investigated trials of the technology, as well as readily available sample imageswhich clearly show that the penis and testicles are visible.
The Transportation Security Administration also downplayed the issue as insignificant, claiming that over 600 complaints about body scanners which are installed in just 21 airports in the U.S. was an “infinitesimally small” number.
“I was not given an option to use the whole body screening device. Neither was anyone else. It appeared that everyone was being required to go through the devices, even children,” said one complaint from an unidentified traveler who flew through the Tulsa airport in May 2009.
As we reported last month, airport staff have also been accused of printing out and circulating naked images of famous people, a complete abuse of the “professionalism” we were promised would be exercised by those in control of these systems.
Courts have consistently found that strip searches are only legal when performed on a person who has already been found guilty of a crime or on arrestees pending trial where a reasonable suspicion has to exist that they are carrying a weapon. Subjecting masses of people to blanket strip searches in airports reverses the very notion of innocent until proven guilty.
Barring people from flying and essentially treating them like terrorists for refusing to be humiliated by the virtual strip search is a clear breach of the basic human right of freedom of movement.Security experts agree that such scanners would not even have stopped the incident that has been exploited to justify their widespread introduction – the Christmas Day underwear bomber.
Not only have the scanners proven to be a total violation of privacy, but major international radiation safety groups are now warning of the health risks they pose.
Despite governments claiming that backscatter x-ray systems produce radiation too low to pose a threat, the Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety concluded in their report that governments must justify the use of the scanners and that a more accurate assessment of the health risks is needed.
Pregnant women and children should not be subject to scanning, according to the report, adding that governments should consider “other techniques to achieve the same end without the use of ionizing radiation.”
“The Committee cited the IAEA’s 1996 Basic Safety Standards agreement, drafted over three decades, that protects people from radiation. Frequent exposure to low doses of radiation can lead to cancer and birth defects, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,”reported Bloomberg.
We are joining the hundreds of other Americans who protested naked body scanners as an affront to privacy, dignity, and a health risk, by launching our naked body scanner contest in an effort to focus public attention on how we must stop these machines now before they are installed in the streets and become another tool of control and oppression as part of the prison planet being constructed around us.
Not only have authorities in Europe promised to roll out mobile body scanners on the streets to mass scan crowds of people, but Homeland Security has even gone a step further,developing Orwellian mind-reading devices that are set to be installed as part of unconstitutional checkpoints at public events.
We are offering our biggest prize fund ever of $15,000 for the entries that most successfully highlight the true agenda behind naked body scanners and where this is all heading unless we put our foot down now and help to build momentum behind public pressure to remove the scanners from airports.
what if we fashion undergarments made of foil? like little mini-bodysuits?
the undie bomber was planned, Chertoff is making the profit along with his pals. who needs the radiation? just the beginning of more police state tactics without just cause. 9-11 = Patriot Act
i will agree to go through a naked body scanner right after Obama, his wife and children do. oh! i forgot are they possibly exempted?
I work for an airline – but I am totally AGAINST this.
Its an oxymoron – the authorities want to stop terrorists from taking away our freedom, and yet they are going to take away more of our freedom to achieve this??
If we allow this to happen….then the terrorists have WON!
I’ve been trying to find statistics everywhere on the number of people who are refusing the voluntary body scan at American airports. EVERY major media outlet runs stories that start with how much this will improve security, then conspicuously fail to mention that it would have done nothing to stop the Christmas bombing attempt, and end up by interviewing some anonymous guy at a local airport who says he doesn’t mind getting scanned because he’s got nothing to hide.
HELLO? “HAVING SOMETHING TO HIDE” IS NOT AN EVIDENTIARY STANDARD IN FIRST-WORLD JURISPRUDENCE.
I know that, and I didn’t even go to COLLEGE.
If the comments I see online are any indication, the vast majority of fliers in the US must be refusing this invasive radioactive assault on their liberties. I sure hope so, because if the government succeeds in pushing this over on us, the alimentary canal is the only place left for them to look, and to do that they’ll just have to increase the beam’s potency a bit, or break out the gloves. So the choice will not be between a scan and a pat-down, it will be between a full-body double-dose X-ray and a rectal examination every time you want to go anywhere. Oh, and YOUR PAPERS PLEASE!
Refuse these Nazis. My grandparents didn’t escape Eastern Europe so their progeny could live in a fascist dictatorship!