It would be more effective if people started writing their senators and house members.

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!

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 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?

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.

Good day!

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