So, what does this all mean?
It means that airport body scanners are ineffective by any metric you care to apply:
• They are medically dangerous.
• They potentially cause more deaths than they would save.
• They can be easily defeated.
This has not prevented Michael Chertoff from going on every television show, pleading how these devices are necessary to protect the Homeland from the terrorist threat.
It’s as if Mr. Chertoff had been on a mission—
—but then again, at $150,000 a pop, and with a minimum order of 1,000 units necessary to put body scanners in each and every airport in the United States, this represents $150 million dollars to Rapiscan. Webmaster's Commentary: It's all about the money, folk; all about the money. And the fact that some people will wind up getting sick and dying of cancer from exposure to these machines?!? That's not the manufacturer's problem!!!
Bon Secour shrimpers say their nets and catch were covered with oil from Gulf floor during a shrimping trip off the coast Louisiana Saturday. Debra Nelson says her husband and two sons headed offshore, about forty miles from where BP's oil rig exploded, to waters that were recently opened in hopes of catching royal red shrimp. When they pulled up the nets after a three-hour drag, they found an unusable catch coated in oil.
The ownership of the Los Angeles Times are the same people that control the criminally-invassive polices that TSA is currently using and trying to justify. That rag that used to be called the LA Times ought to be subjected to a review of their records and their management - which is at least as thorough as are the searches of people
which they are advocataing against here. Webmaster's Commentary:
Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) urged airline passengers Sunday to not purposefully slow down airport security lines by refusing to go through body scanners. “I think the public needs to work with us. We will get it right,” Mica said on CNN’s "State of the Union." “I’m not going to support that but we need to get it right and we will.” Webmaster's Commentary: Oh, yes: I expect this government to get airline security just as "right" as it's gotten the economy for working Americans; just as "right" is it's gotten these two illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; and just as "right" as the next impending attack against the next manufactured villain, to distract Americans from the misery this government's foreign and domestic policies has created!!!
…while the FAA sets the rules for screeners, the screeners are still employees of firms hired by the airlines. Because of this, they do have an incentive for passengers to make their flights on time. (This does not mean that everyone will make it through security on time, but at least the incentive is there for screeners not to overdo their searches.) Once screeners become full-fledged government employees, however, the incentives structure will change dramatically. The inspectors will be working for the federal government and will have no obligations at all toward passengers, except to treat all of them like criminals.
Don’t you remember those halcyon days under Obama when we traded guns for butter, the military shrank, and peace was at hand? Me neither. These last years, of course, have seen the largest military budget in history, the repeated doubling down on one war, a pretend conclusion to another, the building up of the structure of U.S. military bases across the Greater Middle East and a massive buildup of such bases in Afghanistan, as well as the violent escalation of conflicts in nations not at war with the U.S., and record numbers of Special Forces troops – the military’s expanding secret military – sent into 75 countries (15 more than at the end of the Bush era).
With doves like these, who needs hawks?
Protecting riders on mass-transit systems from terrorist attacks will be as high a priority as ensuring safe air travel, the new head of the Transportation Security Administration promises. Webmaster's Commentary: Don't tell me that this is not about the boatloads of cash people are getting from the sales of these back-scatter xray machines, because such sales have nothing to do with the real safety of Americans.
It isn't just in one particular area that all of this government intrusion into our lives is so offensive. What we are witnessing is the government slowly digging its fingers even deeper into our lives in a thousand different ways. Sadly, most Americans see the government as the one who is supposed to take care of them from the cradle to the grave, as the one who is supposed to fix all of the problems in society and as the one who is their ultimate authority.
This is in direct contradiction to the concept of a "limited government" that our Founding Fathers tried so desperately to enshrine in our founding documents. The American people need a big-time wake up call. The following are 8 examples of how the U.S. government is attempting to take even more control over our lives....
TSA Chief John Pistole reiterated today that the administration has absolutely no intention of ever changing its screening policy, insisting that the TSA is “the last line of defense for the US government” and that all the incidents of groping he was asked about were “appropriate” in the face of terrorists. Though some said President Obama’s feigned sympathy suggested a change might be in the offing, Pistole seemed determined to indicate that the system is only going to get more intrusive over time.
Latin American nations need to be cautious with Iran and its motives when negotiating development of their nuclear capacities, the US defense chief warned here Sunday.
"I think that countries that are dealing with Iran in this arena need to be very cautious and very careful about how they interact with the Iranians in terms of what the Iranians motives might be and what they're really trying to do," US Defense Secretary Robert Gates told journalists ahead of a pan-American defense meeting. Webmaster's Commentary:
Most Americans haven't heard of him, but Eric Cantona is a huge international soccer star known throughout Europe and much of the world. Cantona is calling for Europeans to pull their money out of banks on December 7th: Webmaster's Commentary:
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