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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith
I'm not sure why the U.S. news organizations don't seem to be reporting it, though. Wonder if the Flint one will be gone by the time I fly next week.
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Re: Over 30,000 nude images of civilians have been saved from full body scanners.
So did I.
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith
The information revealed, which I may now comment on since a third party has made it publicly available, is devastating to the TSA’s argument that virtually strip-searching the public using its $1B nude body scanner fleet, as well as literally putting their hands in the pants of travelers during full-body pat-downs, is necessary to prevent airplanes from dropping out of the sky at the hands of terrorists. In 2011, the year after the scanners became primary screening, TSA intelligence officials concluded that “terrorist threat groups present in the Homeland are not known to be actively plotting against civil aviation targets or airports.”
The TSA has a lot of explaining to do, both to members of Congress and to the general public, all of whom were misled as to the threat we face and the justification for the most intrusive searches ever performed on the public at large in the United States in the history of this great nation. The terrorists that the TSA has made the country fear, it admits, do not actually exist.
So in other words, it's been misleading people about the risk of terrorist attacks in order to justify expensive machinery and invasive searches. Quelle surprise.
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith
Re: Over 30,000 nude images of civilians have been saved from full body scanners.
Bump!
A former TSA agent admits they know the potentially dangerous radiation machines taking nude pictures of you were complete crap at doing their actual job and as like so many things in Washington were a scam for 'consulting' kickback. Confessions of a former TSA officer
You know what else this means? There hasn't been any serious terrorist/hijacking threat since the TSA started pretending to do heavy security checks. If there were, they would've succeeded in smuggling weapons (and probably bottles of water too, lolololol) in high enough percentages to cause severe terrorism.
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith
Re: Over 30,000 nude images of civilians have been saved from full body scanners.
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the review determined that despite spending $540 million for checked baggage screening equipment and another $11 million for training since a previous review in 2009, the TSA failed to make any noticeable improvements in that time.
So it met the objective of funnelling money to contractors. And possibly the secondary objective of promoting fear among Americans to support the next legislated theft. Seems like it's running exactly to plan.
Re: Over 30,000 nude images of civilians have been saved from full body scanners.
Stick a weapon on your nekkid body (or in a orifi) they'd find it for sure.
The key is to travel with a hotty and put your weapons in the carry-on luggage. Then when they're all gathered around the Porno-scan 2000, your stuff goes on by undetected.
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