Posted: 2/23/2007 10:52:45 AM EDT
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Sweet I want to be a scanner at the airport now! www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17296248/ Powerful X-ray machine debuts in Phoenix MESA, Ariz. - A new X-ray machine for detecting weapons and explosives on airline passengers makes its debut today in Phoenix. The so-called “backscatter” device will be used at one checkpoint in one terminal at Sky Harbor International Airport. The machine visually strips off clothing, although a Transportation Security Administration spokesman says the image it projects looks more like a chalk drawing than a real person. Airport officials say the program will be voluntary for people who require additional screening after going through the regular screening process. Those who choose not to go through the backscatter will be given a standard pat-down instead. The X-ray technology was developed for prisons. 
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Similar: www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=542221 Except I believe this was in the UK, and it was on public streets. |
We're talking "count the pubic hairs" resolution, here. |
I'd be willing to bet we would go to a men examine the men, women examine the women kind of system. But in this day and age. It is still not good. 
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People - this is about Homeland security! Don't you love your country? Don't you want to be safe? What are you, a bunch of radical terrorist sympathizers? All of you complainers have been selected for multiple additional screenings... X-ray, manual, anal the works. I, however, proudly support my President and all necessary measures to stamp out those evil terrorists! (OK, TSA guys, I'm on your side! See!?!? I'll point out troublemakers for you! Just don't send me into that machine!) |
Are you taking bets on how long it will remain optional? |
+1. Just a matter of time before "We've been doing this optionally for years, time to make it mandatory, don't worry it's for your safety". |
Yep,and then they will be putting them in bus stations,train stations,high crime areas.................. eta-and after one generation of kids getting used to these being "no big deal",on to the next step.1984. |
That's a good point-they can also use it to measure body fat,and if your ass looks like 200lbs of chewed bubble gum,the fedgov.,for your own health and well being,will put you on a special diet. It will be easy to adjust your soon to have national id/monetary exchange card to only allow you to purchase healthy,government approved food. |
Go here to see a woman. LINK Questionable content, but it was from a newspaper site. If it is offensive, I'll remove it. I acutally removed the link when I originally posted the thread last month. |
I bought a pair of those when I was in 2nd grade. They don't work. I thought for sure I was gonna be able to see through Carla S. cloths. Was I disappointed 
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So, because a technology could be used wrongly, it shouldn't be used at all... 
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It depends on the technology-is it going to make life better?Or advance the police state?Who decides the definition of "wrongly"? I used to think we were on a slippery slope-now I think we are on an escalator. The trade of supposed security for liberties continues on-welcomed by the majority. |