Airport Body Scanners
October 11th, 2010
Loading ...Via: Lew Rockwell:
I understand now why the scanners aren’t mandatory. There doesn’t seem to be a need for the authoritarians to officially force everyone through. Everyone around me went through of their own volition.
Research Credit: Pookie
I’ll soon have the opportunity to be groped by a TSA agent who should be ashamed of herself for voluntarily participating in a “job” that consists of daily violating her fellow citizens’ 4th Amendment rights. What I will be carrying with me is printed info on the dangers of the backscatter scanners, which includes this:
Backscatter scanners work by shooting a beam of X-rays at a subject. But rather than making an image from what passes through the body, as a doctor’s diagnostic X-ray machine does, backscatter machines measure what bounces back, producing an image of the passenger without clothing. The X-rays are a form of ionizing radiation, that is, radiation powerful enough to strip molecules in the body of their electrons, creating charged particles that cause cell damage and are thought to be the mechanism through which radiation causes cancer.