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Body scanners replace metal detectors in tryout at Tulsa airport
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Thomas Frank
USA Today
February 18, 2009
WASHINGTON — For the first time, some airline passengers will skip metal detectors and instead be screened by body scanning machines that look through clothing for hidden weapons, the Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday.
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An experimental program that begins today at Tulsa International Airport will test whether the $170,000 body scanners could replace $10,000 metal detectors that have screened airline passengers since 1973. Airports in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami, Albuquerque and Salt Lake City will join the test in the next two months, TSA spokesman Christopher White said.
The scanners aim to close a loophole by finding non-metallic weapons such as plastic and liquid explosives, which the TSA considers a major threat. The machines raise privacy concerns because their images reveal outlines of private body parts.
“We’re getting closer and closer to a required strip-search to board an airplane,” said Barry Steinhardt of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Privacy advocate Melissa Ngo fears that passengers won’t understand that the scanners take vivid images that screeners view.
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February 18th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
WARNING!!! WARNING!!! WARNING!!!
U.S. GOVERNMENT CIA, FBI, BATF, NSA, DIA AND THE ISRAELI MOSSAD REGULARLY MONITOR THE ALEX JONES WEBSITES ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS.
YOU CAN USUALLY TELL WHO THEY ARE BY THE AUTHORITATIVE TONE THEIR REPLYS TAKE.
THEY ARE USUALLY THE FIRST TWENTY OR SO BLOGGERS TO DISTORT THE TRUTH.
THEY USE A VARIETY OF TACTICS, SUCH AS:
CHANGING THE SUBJECT OF THE THREAD. AGREEING WITH THE CHANGE AND CONTINUING THE SAME CHANGE.
THEIR REPLYS ARE USUALLY VEHEMENT AND AUTHORITATIVE IN NATURE.
THEY CHANGE THEIR NAMES IN ORDER TO MAKE MULTIPLE ENTRYS IN ORDER TO SHOW NUMEROUS NEGATIVE REPLYS IN AN ATTEMPT TO DISSUADE THE READER.
THEY TRY TO DISCREDIT OTHERWISE RELIABLE SOURCES.
I THINK YOU GET THE PICTURE. SEE IF YOU CAN SPOT THEM.
HillbillyJihad&TheBubbaLiberationFront Reply:
February 18th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Yo’ Jangles: We all know that!!! What…did you just finish “Body of Secrets” by James Bamford??? WTF??? Speak your fuckin’ piece folks!!! Jangles point is still to be aware of for the newbies!!! The Enemy IS ALWAYS listening!!! “All ‘HAIL’ Thermal Expansion!!!!”
Line in the sand Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 8:35 am
I for one incurage the NSA fed boy TRAITORS to hear my words as they now know WE are a ARMY of a millon spinters that can’t be taken.
All it will take is just one of the spinters to STAND thier ground and all the rest will join the fight.
There are alot of good Men & Women in all walks of this land that KNOW this Gov is infilltraited with Traitors and so its the hush before the storm that this Gov is infear of.
Pick your side soon Gov trolls for the REAL soldiers in every walk of our US.MILITARY are ready to stand for whats right and HOLD TO THIER OATH.
REMEMBER THAT (JUST DOING MY JOB)IS NO DEFENCE.
This is a fight NONE of us should want but to all that have taken the Oath, REMEMBER this!!
Alot of good Men & Women have paid with their lives to keep this land free from the like’s of what we now face and remember that the Man or Woman standing next to you could very well hold true to the Oath that they have taken and so go ahead and commit acts of unconstitutional aggression against the citizens and you just might get a little surprise from the REAL MEN & WOMEN that serve our land and so to the one’s of honor, I SALUTE you and to the ones that dishonor their Oath, I pity you for when you hold your child, think about the world you are giving to that souls’ future and what you may soon be dying for, like I probably will, (at least my death will be with honor)!
(WILL YOURS)
Sighed,
A VET who cares
masterkyiron Reply:
February 18th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
ya and they are not that smart at it to ,dumb asses so brained washed they are.you can so tell there not real !!!they must love sucking chemtrails out of the air.babey sprayers.they do not care about anything but money .low so low.working for tyrants !if they even know what a tyrant is?they may not even know what they stand for ,or even care .there standing in line for there brain chips!when you go home if you have children think about them your little ones getting sprayed with chemtrails or nuclear war is that what you want for there future ?do you think the tyrants care about them !i think you know the answer !ill tell you this i care more about them then the tyrants do!!and what does daddy stand for. one day they will figure it out to if the world last that long?think of all the people suffering wile the elite live it up!take a real hard look around is that what you really want?or do you have a heart and soul?do you have any idea what is wrong or right?or do you only talk about what kind of gun you have and what damage it will do?im in your dreams you will hear me as you sleep!
masterkyiron Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 4:11 am
http://www.healthfreedom.org dr laibow needs you to sign!farmers under attack from monsanto ,obamas crimes to pass bill in 2 weeks !hurry
msmadame Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 5:07 pm
This is bad!
http://i.gizmodo.com/5130301/a…..ss-lawyers
Also Google, thousands of tiny embedded in lcd pixels. Endgadet.
Unbeknowst to you, you are on candid camera. Your computer monitor/television.
The SOB’s.
February 18th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Now this looks like a decent Big Brother technology story… not that crap about cameras in TV convertor boxes.
yeah right! Reply:
February 18th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Umm the converter boxes story was not crap. The government is not going to subsidize entertainment for the country unless their is ulterior motives. The cameras, and recorders are probably not going to be in an obvious spot in or on the box, but trust me they’re there. Also another sign of Big Brother watching: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=5625733
aware Reply:
February 18th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
what about the people who have cable? there is no box for them.
i’m sure it’s something “they” are just starting out with the lower class people who don’t have cable.
February 18th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
OMG, look at all the sheeple posting in favor of this on the usatoday site. Hell, why not just have a full body cavity search? If they want to give up privacy for security, go all out. I wonder if these morons would support that. If not, they’re engaging in moral relativism, which is one of the major problems with the way people think. How come women have a privacy right to murder their babies, yet their is no privacy right to modesty? This inconsistent crap makes me so mad!!!
Guess I won’t fly ever again. Not only won’t I allow this, I would speak out against this fascism so violently that they’d probably handcuff and taser me in that order. Then I’d just have to hunt the bastards down that did it. Protest! Boycott! Don’t fly! Bankrupt the chemtrailing airline industry!
yeah right! Reply:
February 18th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
eibwaz I wouldn’t get yourself into much of a lather over the people supposedly ‘in favor’ of this. Especially coming from a NWO paper like the USA today. How accurate, and untainted are those stats? Just like unemployment. The media says it’s about 7.5% but accurate experts are saying it’s more realistically like 14%. I don’t know too many people that are real excited about this latest invasion of privacy. Again, it’s all about perception.
February 18th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
OMG, look at all the sheeple posting in favor of this on the usatoday site. Hell, why not just have a full body cavity search? If they want to give up privacy for security, go all out. I wonder if these morons would support that. If not, they’re engaging in moral relativism, which is one of the major problems with the way people think. How come women have a privacy right to murder their babies, yet their is no privacy right to modesty? This inconsistent crap makes me so mad!!!
Guess I won’t fly ever again. Not only won’t I allow this, I would speak out against this fascism so violently that they’d probably handcuff and taser me in that order. Then I’d just have to hunt the bastards down that did it. Protest! Boycott! Don’t fly! Bankrupt the chemtrailing airline industry!
February 18th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Mr Bo jangles, does your authoritative tone and all caps make you CIA, FBI, Mossad, or whatever?
February 18th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
REPENT.UNITE.RESIST.
February 18th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
sick.
February 18th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Geez, this site is glitchy. First time I’ve ever done a double post anywhere. LOL
February 18th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Tulsa is way into it ! they will jail you for talking about toothpaste ! theses are people whos lifes ambition is to become a detective just like on TV
February 18th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
All that radiation would ruin my already bad THYROID!
February 18th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Job openings for all the perv’s.
February 18th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
If the creators of this site truly believed this CRAP was for real, then why charge you DUMBASSES for the books containing the “secret” information about the conspiracy? Which even if it did exist, you should fucking find solid evidence, write to the newspaper / news, and fucking nail the government.
If the enemy is always “listening,” why are you even wasting your shitty breathes on this total horse-shit?!
If you really feel the government or rich conspirators are plotting to destroy humanity, and live off machines, then I suggest you do exactly what our fucking founding fathers did, and start a revolution to restart the damn country instead of being retarded and accusing the government of a conspiracy from every move they make.
Bill Reply:
February 18th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Anonymous… if you truly believe the crap you just posted.. you wouldn’t be here… would ya?
Idiot!
February 18th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Glad I don’t fly. This is sick, and I agree with other posters who say we should boycott
the airline industry. Hit them in the pocketbooks where it hutts!! Those assholes! Why
don’t they just go the whole hog and require cavity serches or better yet force everyone
to fly naked? Hell they might as well!
February 18th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
# janet Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
All that radiation would ruin my already bad THYROID!
[Reply]
Well Janet, those scanners don’t use x-rays but instead terahertz radiation. THz radiation is
somewheres in between microwave radiation and the visible spectrum whereas ionizing
x-rays are beyond the range of visible light and the ultraviolet.
So while it wont damage your cells by ionizing them, I certainly wouldn’t count on it
being healthy. Research shows that cells communicate with each other with photons that
are exactly in this range of THz radiation and the radiation from a scanner could upset
that.
February 18th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
and air fare will probably go up for the right to have some ex-McDonalds floor mopper turned TSA asswipe oggle your wife’s or girlfriend’s or mom’s body parts while all the slaves stand in line and wait to be screened. This stems from a lack of functional nads and self respect. If we had functional nads we would have said “HELL NO” after 9/11 and Bush’s drastic step toward police state horseshit at the airports, and we wouldn’t have this present mess now. If we had self respect, the airline industry would go bankrupt because no one would submit to this invasion of privacy on a dehumanizing scale, we’d either take a train or drive. This is fucking incredible…
Mr. Fema Reply:
February 18th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
What are you going to do about it?
off_thegrid Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Me personally?
I quit flying after they imposed the liquids and feet smelling rituals.
I won’t fly again.
February 18th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
This isnt very comforting I live in Tulsa, and I live in what used to be the nicest part of the city almost a decade ago, its been pouring with illegal immigrants fast and going downhill with alot of crime. Luckily there isnt a firearm registration thing here
.
Gary Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
I was about to say that I had wondered how long it would be before the NWO became as evident here in Oklahoma as it has been elsewhere around the country – but now I’m shocked to see that this intrusion is being rolled out here FIRST. This is deeply disturbing.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
I work for TSA and I feel I have protected my country by taking an old ladys yogurt away.
February 19th, 2009 at 12:29 am
BobLeeSwaggerk, you’re dead on brother.
February 19th, 2009 at 12:40 am
oh shit FUCK! ive been through one of those THEY DIDNT EVEN TELL ME THAT IT DOES THAT!!!!
and it was many years ago i wasnt well informed so i thought it was cool.
Alex j.’s solution to fighting the NWO is going to take to long i belive that multiple resource based economy cities would be the solution until the whole world is for a resource based economy and then it would be impossible for the NWO to oppresse humanity
February 19th, 2009 at 4:02 am
This is exactly why I always take the TRAIN!
Amtrack freaking rules!
February 19th, 2009 at 6:03 am
The only people who want to take down planes are government agencies whether it be a false flag terrorist attack or a murder hit to silence a dissident. They can bypass any type of security in place since they are inside jobs anyway. TSA and body scanners are a fraud and invasion of privacy to get you used to feeling guilty and having to prove you are innocent. That is the coming police state. Stupid sheep who have no clue about anything that matters in life are ruining it for the rest of us.
February 19th, 2009 at 11:01 am
like there aren’t enough pervs in the world already.
February 19th, 2009 at 11:27 am
why don’t the fat slobs who work for the TSA have their stinking bodies scanned and let the public look at them. this is getting perverted more and more. When are we, the american people going to stand up and demand they remove all this equipement and start racially profiling the muslims who are commiting these acts of terror.
the whole freaking government is insane and treasoness
February 19th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
satellite tracking for all. enemy of the state comes to mind. aj’s talking about this on his radio show right now.
February 19th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
DON”T FLY Let the airline industry dry up and die. Plan ahead and take the train or bus and enjoy America while you still can. Don’t give up your dignity for a bunch of perverted government employees. I’ll walk before I’ll fly.
missouri mom Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 5:47 am
You and me both!!! Enough is enough already. Let’s screw the airline industry. They sure are not shy about screwing us, are they?
February 19th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
The dark are all about making you feel small and powerless to keep you quite, and submissive.
In time free humanity shall show them just how small there numbers and power really is.
Violent or non violent, We shall Prevail.
February 19th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
The only answer to this crap is DO NOT fly, in-turn helping to bankrupt the airlines…and let them know exactly why you’re not flying (via phone calls, emails, letters). It’s time that we Americans slow down a bit anyways, taking time to travel by bus, by train or by car…enjoy the ride and relax along the way, versus dealing with the carnival that has become the governmental arse-kissing airline industry.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:13 am
To all the CIA, NSA, FBI, NWO, ILLUMINATI and MASONS controlled slaves reading this post.
I would respect you more if you got something out of manipulating the public into a global dictatorship. If you were the elite that could run the world. But being a paid slave for the elite helping the planet becoming a prison. Then you are not only helping the elite steal other peoples freedom but yours and your children too. That is pretty stupid if you ask me.
If it ok if you have a need for wiping yourself. But why wipe others too? Can’t you sell your soul and find some sweatshop in china you can work for rather then working for the elite bring a New World slave order?
February 20th, 2009 at 11:42 am
I think it is a great idea. First lets get a full medical check before boarding the plane. Test my cholesterol and take some blood. I want the results immediately before getting on the plane. I also want my heart pressure checked. Check my urine for any problems. Also do an mri check for slipped discs etc. I also want a Cat scan check my brains for abnormal brain waves. It should be this way because like jiffy lube you can get all points health check before taking a flight. Also I need my eyes checked so I can spot the crazy terrorist that may have boarded the plane.
msmadame Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Funny!
February 20th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
WARNING!!! WARNING!!! WARNING!!!
TO “ALL” TRAITORS OF THE
U.S. GOVERNMENT CIA, FBI, BATF, NSA, DIA AND THE ISRAELI MOSSAD REGULARLY MONITOR THE ALEX JONES WEBSITES ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS.
You assholes- we are an army of millions!!!! Im ready !! GOT GUNS!! WE WILL RESIST!!!!!
February 20th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
let ‘em have a look at me ugly body! stupid bastards. they dam well better not expect me to put my kids throo that thing, tho
msmadame Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Good point I’m sure children will not be exempt. They may be baby terrorist!
February 20th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
What the fuck are you people flying for? Stop spending assholes. Sit on your wallets just for a short time.
Or, be fucking slaves to tax debt for ever. Collaspe has too happen, keep prolonging it, and it will just be that much more impossible to fix.
Keep nursing it along, I see another bailout around the corner, but it won’t be for you!!!!!! Just the cost of paying it back. So tell your children how stupid you are for making it worse because, they will be paying back forever your mistakes.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
oh no, here we go again. big brother is watching you. who gives a fuck? would you rather have somebody see a shitty blurry outline of your body (which is probably shitty anyways, because america cant seem to get off the cheeseburger wagon) or participate in a terrorist hijacking? by all means, look at a non-colored, poorly shaded image of my body to ensure i dont have any c-4 shoved up my ass, i dont mind. what is with all you lunatics and thinking that the government wants to mess your life up? your guns? get a hold of reality. if the government wanted to kill you, you having guns wouldnt prevent that from happening. if theres one thing the government does have, its killers. the military and paramilitary agencies of the government could waste you, hands down. but i promise you waxing off some hill jack paranoid idiot who thinks everybody is out to get them isnt really in their best interests, or concerns. guess what, the world doesnt revolve around you or your privacy.
ARM-RESIST Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 3:49 am
What a total asshole you are. When they want to stick a probe up your ass will you be down for that too? You complacent slave scum asshole.
msmadame Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Lol! Invasion of privacy ok for some.
This is bad!
http://i.gizmodo.com/5130301/a…..ss-lawyers
Also Google, thousands of tiny embedded in lcd pixels. Endgadet.
Unbeknowst to you, you are on candid camera. Your computer monitor/television.
The SOB’s.
February 21st, 2009 at 4:43 am
Airport Police State
- Lew Rockwell interviews Becky Akers
- http://lewrockwell.com/podcast....._state.mp3
February 21st, 2009 at 11:01 am
I don’t wish to die on board a plane. Minimizing that risk by screening the masses of asses is perfectly fine with me. I’m known to all my friends as a “conspiracy theorist” but I am capable of using common sense. Fair security measures that protect me (and everyone else) from crazy people = Good!
And what is this “modesty” issue that some seem to have? Did you see the image in the photo from the original article? Far from stimulating material. Did I miss something?
msmadame Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Please,
No doubt your body scan will link to your identification. Why?
What are they looking for explosives in our DNA?
Lol, that dummied up photo is to TRICK for the ‘naive’ do you think they will show the public the true image a high resolution mega zoom image.
And if the image is barely recognizable than why take them?
If MRI’s, CAT SCAN etc., do not produce blurry image you can best believe the new airport cameras will not either.
ghost Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 7:41 pm
link to your identification? you mean just like the drivers license you used to board the plane in the first place? yes they know who is boarding the plane. There is nothing worthwhile on your body that they would scan for…. except for i don’t know…. BOMBS, DRUGS, GUNS. the purpose of the scanner is to identify things you may have on, or in you. who gives a fuck if they know what you look like. EVERYBODY knows what you look like. they can “mega zoom” my ass all they want. all they’re going to find out about me is that there’s lint in my pockets. beyond that they dont serve any purpose. keeping one of our staple means of transportation safe is more important that the TSA finding out you have a pimple on your ass.
msmadame Reply:
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Hmm, true,
Keeping America safe is the job of the govt.
But the govt., did not keep Americans safe. They dropped the bomb so to speak.
We are to believe that a sick man, with (liver disease) and living from cave to cave with a walkie talkie outsmarted the pride and technology of America and shut down NORAD, I don’t think so. Liver disease is not a cold.
American citizens are INNOCENT and don’t deserve that invasion of privacy because it is unwarranted, they are not terrorist it is just another way for the demented to play with us, like the cat toys at a mouse before he KILLS IT.
You are simple minded and most likely a troll. Let them body scan your wife, daughter and mother and place it in a data base for later consumption.
For you to suggest that we have to have an X-ray to visit our loved ones because we may be carrying what a bomb, drugs or a gun, makes you an imbecile.
Whats the function of a metal detector and chemical sniffers.
Justify your need for control you sound like a punk.
Keep brushing your teeth, eating poison food and water your masters love you.
By the way the Beijing skyscrapper you ‘dim wit’ is still standing.
ARM-RESIST Reply:
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:58 pm
HAHAHAH well said, i love it! IF your going to die in a plane crash it isn’t because average joe blow snuck some explosives on board in his anus. It’ll be because the Goverment crashed it with CIA trained “terrorists”, or shot it down with a fucking missile you jerk off. So let them violate your rights, its for your safety! JACKASS!
Spirit of the Greater Good Reply:
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Msmadame, your arguments hold zero water. Your irrational, emotions based “Me me me” sentiments mean fuck all to people who actually care about whether we all live or die due to some wacko bringing weapons on board a plane.
Do you even fly? What are you going to do when it’s you, a family member or a friend up there flying those friendly skies and suddenly Mister or Miss Psycho takes over the plane? Jump off? Care to turn that one over in your mind for a bit?
Trusting absolutely no-one far from places me in the “naive” camp. You are the worst kind of conspiracy theorist nut. The type arrogant enough to believe you know everything and could not possibly be wrong. Arrogance shall be your downfall.
And more points detracted for calling so many names here to people who simply happen to think instead of feel their way through to a conclusion on what’s best for us as a whole.
It’s not all about you.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:31 pm
George Orwell, War of the Worlds-1930’s, spot on.
ghost Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 7:50 pm
fiction, and fiction, spot on. paranoid moron, spot on.
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Only an illiterate would say that.
Issac Asimov
H.G Wells
Ray Bradbury
Would call you a liar, Sir!
It is the text book ‘on using terror as an experiment the trusting public.
I feel sorry for you.
And by the way it is a waste of YOUR TIME to attempt to out wit me intellectually.
msmadame Reply:
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:46 pm
This reply is directed to, Mr. Ghost!
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:35 pm
I don’t need to outwit you intellectually. you do a fine job of that yourself.
“It is the text book ‘on using terror as an experiment the trusting public.”
Your sentence structure. Your shitty use of punctuation. Don’t claim that you’re intellectually superior to anyone else when you post rubbish like that. I understand that internet posts usually contain errors, but yours are pretty brutal. The issue in this conversation is not about Osama, or 911, or if you think it was orchestrated by the U.S. government (like a jack ass). We’re discussing body scanners, and their ethical application as security measures at air ports. Look at it this way. If you owned an air line, you wouldn’t want some fuck off blowing up your expensive ass planes. So for the PRIVILEGE to fly on one of these privately owned planes, you need to walk through some security measures, especially because there’s other people on the plane. And its everyone’s responsibility to ensure their safety. Nobody said you HAD to fly on the plane. You DON”T need to fly on the plane to visit your loved ones. It has no correlation to your rights of privacy. You arent legally required to ever board a plane if you dont WANT to. So my advice to you, intellectual, is not get on the plane then. Walk. Other wise, keep your mouth shut and go through security like a good little monkey.
And outwit is one word.
ARM-RESIST Reply:
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:01 pm
The only people blowing up expensive ass planes is the government itself you stupid dick head.
ghost Reply:
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:03 am
god you live in a fucking bubble. the government didnt orchestrate 911, trust me. regardless, that is a whole different animal, especially dealing with you weirdos. Metal detectors and chemical sniffers are there for a reason, to pick up metal and chemicals. Only problem with chemical sniffers is that they only detect volatile materials. Today’s technology allows explosives to come in other forms like plastics and ceramics. Youre right, average joe blow isnt the one we need to worry about. Its the person who looks just like him, and walks just like him, and talks just like him, except they have plastic explosives concealed on them, that they could detonate on a plane with items salvaged from a device as simple as a cell phone. The new scanners are keeping up with today’s terrorism. Unfortunately its a bit more invasive. But in this case (the lives of hundreds of innocent people) the ends far out justify the means. And as stated before, if you dont like them, you can walk. In the mean time, I’ll see you in the “database.”
ARM-RESIST Reply:
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:06 am
I live in a bubble??? trust you??? TRUST YOU??? Your living in a bubble, a fearful deluded reality where the governments intentions are to keep you safe! You’ve been fooled by all the fake terrorism crap the media shoves down our throats.
name one time someone snuck explosives onto a commerical flight and blew it up! NAME ONE FUCKING TIME JACKASS!
I’m not even gonna get into the whole 9-11 thing. Anyone with the slightest thinking ability knows that was orchestrated.
your a fucking joke
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:49 pm
While I understand your parallels that you can draw with George Orwell’s works, keep in mind that his social events took place a LONG time ago. Things have changed quite a bit, especially in the realm of technology. Culture and society are constantly evolving and changing to keep up with their environment. Live based on the past, dont live in the past.
ARM-RESIST Reply:
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Yeh, things are changing, all the big brother technology, and the subversion of peoples rights to privacy and so on, that they wrote about are becoming reality. Your a complacent FOOL, I bet you’ll take the chip gladly.
Oh and by the way, msmadame makes you look like a complete asshole.
ghost Reply:
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:03 am
you both make yourselves look like complete assholes.
Spirit of the Greater Good Reply:
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:50 pm
I couldn’t agree more, Ghost.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:30 am
ghost i would say your the one looking like asshole!
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:04 pm
You’re over paranoid. To the point where it makes you look stupid. Your unwillingness to use rationality is shocking. You’re paranoid about apple computers putting a web cam into the center of its screen. If you read the article, the whole point of putting it there is so you can center your gaze there while you do a web cam chat. How is this different than any other lap top that comes with a web cam pre-installed? Even if anyone WAS spying on you, of what value would an image of your big dumb face while you jack off and post creepy paranoid replies on your conspiracy theory websites? We have satellites that can see you from space and your concerned about a fucking web cam? You need mental help. I’m serious, you should really think about it. As far as your conspiracy theory 9-11 bullshit, think of it this way, what possibly could be a more effective weapon than making the people of a democracy lose faith in its government? If you’re so sure terrorism is fake, I invite you to travel to the middle east and say that in a crowded street in India. If you do, make sure you send me a hyperlink to the streaming video of them gutting you and dragging your naked paranoid ass corpse through the streets of Mumbai. As much as many of you would like to be angry at airlines, and as much as it would get your jollies off if they went under, think of the benefit to society air travel presents. You can cross oceans in a day. You can visit families COUNTRIES away in a few hours. Why the fuck would do you dislike this so much? Are they perfect? fuck no. Have they made negative economic, and ecologic impacts? fuck yes. The point is that we’re doing the best we can with it. Nothing is going to be Utopian, and because of that, you think its ok for YOU to throw stones at it. If we evaluated your shit life with the same outlook, you’d have to be deported. IMO we’re doing what we need to do to keep such a valuable means of transportation, business, and travel available to the masses. Both American and foreign alike. If you can come up with viable, intelligent reasons or arguments about the ways this DOES invade your privacy, bring it to the table. Other wise go back to your bubble.
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Truly disgusting. We are all suspects at airports now and are treated as such. I don’t care if I ever fly again.
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February 23rd, 2009 at 3:41 pm
I bet you fucking do. How do you think your food, and your mail, and parts they build your cars out of get around? Airlines, that’s how. Cargo planes are bought with the same money that you spend when you buy a plane ticket to ship your sorry ass wherever you want to go. Do you want to protect that asset? Maybe its me, maybe you’re a suspect to me. I think you’re a psycho, and I WANT your ass scanned because i think you’ve got what it takes to take a bomb on my plane because i pissed you off with this web post. I guess you don’t need transportation though. I bet even the computer you posted this shit has taken a few flights, not to mention that parts its made out of. As much as you don’t like to think so, you ARE a suspect. If you’re not doing anything wrong, it shouldn’t be a big deal. I guess that makes me a blind sheep though. I bet if your mother was a pilot, you’d want these scanners. You’d probably want everybody to get a digital rectal exam. On the flip side, just don’t travel. I could use the leg room.
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Mr. Ghost must work for the Thousands standing Around.
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:36 pm
I just get unnerved with all this surveillance going on in our society. Cameras everywhere. So much for the right of the people to be secure. Good bye 4th Amendment.
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:25 pm
honestly i would feel much better having stripsearches at the airport., lol.
why all the doom and gloom.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:26 am
Are these the things that you have to STAND IN and it blows some air at you? Then you walk out? If so, HOLLY CRAP! On my last trip from Puerto Rico (US commonwealth, actually, US COLONY), this is what the US government has installed everywhere…I have a feeling if these are it, nobody knows it there…Please let me know…
February 24th, 2009 at 7:11 am
I have seen the “Entity Scanners” at various airports throughout Europe over the past 18 months, Warsaw in Poland, Dublin Ireland, and possibly others such as Rome Italy and London,
From memory they are produced by G.E.
They usually sit just out of sight of the security lanes, in line with the “Business Express Customers” entrance, I imagine they’ll be the first to get to use them.
I have also seen the new “Foot scanner” and the Nitrogen scanner.
I’m almost certain they turn up the metal detectors to high and or trigger false positives, to get people who look like they are not intimidated. They are also being operated by rent-a-cop security firms and it is debatable whether they have the right to frisk search you. I know that customs officers can actually search you.
For example in Brussels I took a knife through the scanner and they asked me to take it out, I said “NO you take it out because I’m not going to be shot for holding a weapon at airport security”.
I also went through LAX wearing shorts jandals and a teeshirt and cap, holding nothing but a book. I got dragged out of the queue and sent straight through with a “please lift your hat sir” – my check-in luggage arrived in a plastic bag after being taken apart by security.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:50 am
Thank you for the warning . My wife and i have to fly from Tulsa this next month .