(Credit: John Wild (johnwild.info))
This image of an adult man was taken using a Rapiscan Secure 1000 backscatter X-ray scanner |
Two months ago, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that the federal stimulus legislation would pay for the purchase of hundreds of controversial full-body scanners.
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“We have received minimal complaints,” a TSA spokeswoman told CNET yesterday. She said that the agency, part of DHS, keeps track of air traveler complaints and has not seen a significant rise.A growing number of airline passengers, labor unions, and advocacy groups, however, say the new procedures–a choice of full-body scans or what the TSA delicately calls “enhanced patdowns”–go too far. (They were implemented without much fanfare in late October, amid lingering questions about whether travelers are always offered a choice of manual screening.)
Unions representing U.S. Airways pilots, American Airlines pilots, and some flight attendants are advising their members to skip the full-body scans, even if it means that their genitals are touched. Air travelers are speaking out online, with a woman saying in a YouTube video her breasts were “twisted,” and ExpressJet pilot Michael Roberts emerging as an instant hero after he rejected both the body scanning and “enhanced patdowns” options and was unceremoniously ejected from the security line from Memphis International Airport.
I would think that most people would not want to go through one of these scans. Plus, frequent flyers would build up a lot of radiation.
I’ll use the scanner when Michelle does. They got one big enough for her butt?
Wonder if the “Scan” leaves your Privates GLOWING IN THE DARK ?
Chalk up another reason to not trust the TSA strip-mall security employees. Straight from TSA, they call the scanners “dick measuring devices”, and admit that the reason for these ‘ENHANCED” pat-downs is to embarrass people into choosing the machine instead.
Then comes this, a traveler takes a photo of the TSA security booth at an airport to find this on their computer screen:
http://gizmodo.com/5688087/the-tsas-sense-of-humor-makes-me-nervous
Rapiscan Secure 1000 Scanner…is the i a typo?