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Love Pats. Baby, Love Pats!
via youtube.com Ignoring the whole “naked body picture” issue for a bit, are those new full-body scanners at the TSA checkpoints safe? The TSA insists they are safe, but on No Agenda, they followed the evidence. While they certainly go to great lengths to imply they are safe, there’s nothing that says the actual scanners…
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It may be snowing, but my fountain is still going.
via Osfoora for iPhone
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Scientists say they have solution to TSA scanner objections
A cheap and simple fix in the computer software of new airport scanners could silence the uproar from travelers who object to the so-called virtual strip search, according to a scientist who helped develop the program at one of the federal government’s most prestigious institutes. via washingtonpost.com What about the potentially dangerous levels of radiation…
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Ron Paul on the new TSA Procedures
via youtube.com Ron Paul is my hero. I just hope his proposed legislation goes somewhere other than the round file. Alas, he’ll be told to sit down and shut up, SLAVE!
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Head of TSA John Pistole Testifies Before Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation announces the following full committee hearing on Transportation Security Administration oversight. via commerce.senate.gov The head of TSA John Pistole is interviewed. To say I’m not a fan of this guy is an understatement.
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Radiation Experts Concerned With TSA Airport Security Scanners
The government, though, might be engaging in a little myth-making of its own by insisting that the new airport imaging machines that use X-rays are unequivocally safe for all passengers and airport personnel passing through dozens or even hundreds of times a year. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says the new device, known as…
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Chris Selley: Airline security is worse than stupid. It’s sociopathic and immoral
“There has to be some sacrifice…when it comes to security,” [said a reporter whose toddler daughter was subject to a patdown at an airport recently.] True. “Sacrifice” was what we endured before 9/11 — long lines, metal detectors, emptying your pockets. The current situation is more reminiscent of The Onion’s fictional Franz Kafka International Airport,…
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TSO saying “heads up, got a cutie for you” – FlyerTalk Forums
Last week, one of my flying partners (Captain with Skywest) was going through security at DEN with his 18 year daughter. As his daughter approached the detector, the TSO working the NoS said on his headset, “heads up, got a cutie for you.” He then confronted the TSA clerk with what he said and that…
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Supporting Sexual Assault: The Left and the TSA
The TSA is there to remind us that the State is all-powerful, and that even to question any act is to commit a crime. (For those who don’t know it, openly questioning these procedures at an airport is to commit the crime of “Interfering with the Duties of a Federal Officer,” and the maximum penalty…
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A Mother Traveling With Her Baby Is Sexually Assaulted by the TSA
I have an incident to share that occurred late Friday afternoon, November 12, 2010, around 5:15 in the Dayton International Airport. I realize the publishing this publically on the internet puts me into a delicate situation, given that I am a high profile blogger and author. This is a difficult incident to share, but it…