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Despite claims by the TSA that electronic body scan images "cannot be stored or recorded," some federal police agencies are in fact saving tens of thousands of images, according to a report by CNET News.
Originally posted by soficrow
reply to =http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread605784/pg1#pid9465872]post by hawaiinguy12
S&F
More at American Science and Engineering, Inc.
AS&E X-ray inspection systems are used by governments and corporations around the world to combat terrorism, drug and weapons smuggling, illegal immigration, and trade fraud.
So how come its still happening then
As to the OP... i agree that this will be going too far if it means the tech can be used to view anyone anywhere... this means you can be spied on having sex with your wife or partner... or when you need to use the toilet... what you are doing in your own home.... basically anything...
This is bad news!!
Some good points are using it to catch people who are about to let a bomb go off or a gun totting guy about to shoot up some place....
[edit on 25-8-2010 by TruthxIsxInxThexMist]
Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by just an allusion
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security"
Benjamin Franklin.
Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by just an allusion
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security"
Benjamin Franklin.
Yes, I agree, common sense.
possess contraband
Originally posted by PsykoOps
reply to post by just an allusion
Then you dont mind if big brother install cameras all over your house. In the toilet and bedroom too since you dont have anything to hide?
The word contraband, reported in English since 1529, from Medieval French contrebande "a smuggling," denotes any item which, relating to its nature, is illegal to be possessed, sold.
Any goods that are unlawful to possess, sell or otherwise distribute or transport, or whose very existence is illegal.
Originally posted by marg6043
reply to post by just an allusion
Really, so cancer is a better alternative for the future of your children.
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!
Common sense people common sense gone to the crapper. . .
Originally posted by WTFover
Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by just an allusion
I suppose the term "little" is subjective, but I consider a dirty bomb, a suitcase nuclear device or even a large conventional explosive device to be significantly more than what can be described as "little".
Do you really feel safer today than oh...lets say two years ago? I don't.
All this has not a damn thing to do with security. Its all about control. Look at all we have given (had taken) away.
They track you online, listen to your phone, emails, banking, virtual strip searches, now every transaction above $600 will generate a form 1099
( buying gold anyone? ) tell you you have NO right to privacy. Now precrime as I mentioned in another post, and sooo much more. Yet they can't secure the borders! But they sure can clamp down on you.
And you say " little", I wonder what your definition of a lot is.
Originally posted by WTFover
Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by just an allusion
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security"
Benjamin Franklin.
Most people who call up this quote, always omit an important word... "for a little temporary security".
I suppose the term "little" is subjective, but I consider a dirty bomb, a suitcase nuclear device or even a large conventional explosive device to be significantly more than what can be described as "little".
Additionally, I do not believe "essential liberty" refers to one's freedom to possess contraband, in any form.
Originally posted by just an allusion
Originally posted by marg6043
reply to post by just an allusion
Really, so cancer is a better alternative for the future of your children.
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!
Common sense people common sense gone to the crapper. . .
Come on now, do you REALLY think they would condone, let alone allow, the installation of devices that would cause the promotion of cancer in people?
Too much radiation at one body site can cause skin conditions resembling severe burns or local cancers. Widely distributed over the body so that it penetrates much of the blood-forming marrow, excessive radiation can cause leukemia. If it strikes the gonads (ovaries or testicles), excessive radiation—i.e., by best estimate, beyond 10 roentgens*—can cause mutations in the genes, which, in turn, may mean deformities in the patient's descendants. Dangers, by sites: ...
The sensible conclusion is that patients would be foolish to forgo needed X rays, especially when given by a doctor or dentist who knows his business and his dosages, and would be still more foolish to expose themselves to needless X rays.
Sounds more like the fear mongering being propagated by those individuals with something to hide .....
There is no question that accumulated exposure to X-rays can cause cancer. In fact, ionizing radiation—the technology used in mammography and other X-ray imaging—is the only known cause of breast cancer.
X-Ray Visionary: John Gofman and the Patients’ Right-to-Know Project
Commonly performed CT scans are exposing patients to far more radiation than previously thought and in doses that could cause tens of thousands of cancers a year, two new studies claim.
Based on the findings, reported in the Dec. 14/28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, the study authors, joined by Archives editor Dr. Rita F. Redberg, are calling on clinicians to limit radiation exposure to patients.