16 March 2010—CHICAGO—All airline passengers in the U.S. will eventually be required to undergo a full-body scan before boarding planes, just as metal detectors became a standard and accepted part of the screening process at airports decades ago, the federal transportation security chief in Chicago said Monday.
As a body-scanning machine was used to screen passengers for the first time on Monday at O’Hare International Airport, federal and city officials said they expect the airport will receive more body-imaging technology later this year to help address one of the biggest terrorism threats to commercial aviation, suicide bombers on planes.
The Transportation Security Administration plans to send hundreds of the scanners, which cost between $130,000 and $170,000 each, to all major U.S. airports. The scanners use low-dose X-ray to go underneath clothing and display weapons, explosives and other objects that might be hidden on the body, above the skin.
So far, 21 airports are equipped with the units and nine more are slated to receive the scanners soon, officials said. The security agency plans to deploy 450 body scanners to an undetermined number of airports this year.
Kathleen Petrowsky, the TSA director at O’Hare, said she anticipates the body scans — now optional for passengers — will become mandatory in the future to guard against improvised explosive devices being smuggled onto airliners.
Currently, passengers have the option to submit to a physical pat-down and wanding by a TSA officer using a metal detector.
At 19 airports that received the scanners more than a year ago, the devices are now used as a primary means of screening, whereas before they were utilized only to clear up discrepancies when a passenger set off a metal detector or failed a pat-down.
“We expect at some point all passengers will receive a body scan,” Petrowsky said.
Nothing is mentioned on the health safety of these machines. I think all of us should deny doing this. Everyone going through these machines is innocent until proven guilty. It is the government who blow up the planes and they know exactly which ones they will hit. Maybe if the government ops would stop escorting people on planes who are fixed with testicle bombs these big ticket items for profit would not be so easily sold. These criminals have gone too far... TSA workers are perverts. It isn't enough to watch people take off shoes, belts and jackets... now they want to view the gentiles. Those people should be brought down on charges of forcing indecency on innocent people.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, there is no government, it is critical people begin to comprehend this vital point. Go to the glossary, click on Senior Executive Service to help you understand how it has been transformed.
ReplyDeleteSecond, whatever there is left of 'government' at the municipal, state and national level, it has been investing enormous amounts of money in companies such as this one providing these scanners at airports, the company's profits go up, those who hold stock in this company increases in value (it's a given in no bid contracts), and the 'governments' stock portfolio increases dramatically.
This is harassment, pure and simple, the traveling public are being victimized for the reason explains in so many of the interviews and transrcipts at this blog, the goal being to completely destroy American industry.
This is an undeclared war on the public now leave me alone so I can go back to Sunday afternoon sports, filling out my tax returns and belching beer.
You have clarified it well and although I am understanding this it is important for me to get the verbiage correct.
ReplyDeleteSo what can be done? I for one do not want to risk my health for their profits and bogus claims of safety.
What can be done?
ReplyDeleteSimple, destroy your enemy by first destroying his image by mocking them.
"The best way to destroy your enemy is to make it personal." -- Sal Alinsky
Rule# 1: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."
Rule# 2: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."
Rule# 3:"A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
Rule# 4: "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself."
Rule# 5: "If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside... every positive has its negative."
Rule# 6: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and 'frozen.'
Rule# 7:"Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have."
Rule# 8: "Never go outside the expertise of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear and retreat.... [and] the collapse of communication.
Rule# 9: "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
My rule: Take the gloves off.