Kevin Carson writes:
The Transportation Security Administration’s passenger check procedures are now even more intrusive and demeaning. They’ve reached the point where the only alternative to body scanning is an even more invasive pat-down (including cupped hands over breasts and groin). That’s right: If you don’t want to be ogled by cretins viewing your genitalia with their x-ray specs, you’re free to let them grope your family jewels instead.
Never mind their claims that radiation from the body-scanners is “harmless.” Just like asbestos, Agent Orange and depleted uranium. Any time someone in authority tells you something is “harmless,” they’re probably lying. (For that matter, any time someone in authority tells you anything, they’re probably lying.) Anyway, so what if they really believe it? If they find out later they were wrong, they’ll still stonewall and fight to the end to avoid compensating you.
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The gov’s big lie is real. I was a naval nuclear engineer with a full ahead interest in rising to the top both in rank and knowlege. Science was just an amazing work, so much so that I was visited by admiral Rickover complimenting me on my work. That what I had done to have grabbed his attention was directly related to radiation/ fission/ bio hazzard etc. calculations which are still likely covered by my sworn oath to never divulge I’ll only say this, we live in a dangerous world where risk is simply a matter of either accomplishing deterrents or suffering the will of tyrants. You will not always be told the truth. We are many decades into a strategic battle of wits and wills where reality is avoided for public convenience. Is it right? In hindsight no but it wasn’t intended to be a PR disaster either. That said, the enemy is now inside the gates and POURING in because of the loss of public trust and their resulting failure to understand the constitution is what matters not gov policy or party or wars waged in secret. The scanning and patting are hogwash and simply mask the resulting foreign policy of eliminating borders and sovereignty now that the war is all but lost on paper. They, the scanners operators, are merely a point of inculcation for those who would join the watchers in the planned new world of police control over all. It may interest some of you to know that the father of our nuclear navy was quite intrigued by my views on our creator. Ponder this, before the “big bang” when the universe was CREATED there was NOTHING. Then there was born both order and chaos.
that’s right. i haven’t been on a plane since all the security, but i’m native american, so 50% of the time I get the pat down anyhow. I’m opting out.