Guess what. If I would be forced to pass through any sort of "security" scanner, from a simple metal detector to a full-blown Pedophile-O-Vision, I will not do business with you. I do not believe in your "security" cult, and I don't trust those who do not trust their customers. I certainly don't have enough self-loathing to do business with those who have open contempt for their customers, or in the case of government, fear and contempt for those they are coercing to associate with them.
I know that the only path to real security is a universally-armed populace, and that anything less only helps those who wish to harm the innocent: in other words these "security" scanners enable government and terrorists and all other murderous rapists (sorry for the redundancy). The bad guys will always find a way around such measures, through official "only one" status, bribes, or just innovative thinking and new weaponry. Always.
If you operate one of those machines for your employer you are working to ensure success for the bad guys and you should stop now if you have any principles that are worth living up to. Yes, it means you will need to find an ethical way to earn money in a governmentally-damaged economy, but sometimes to do the right thing is hard and a little painful. It is still the right thing to do.
Any sort of "security" scanner should be seen as a gigantic warning sign saying "Keep Out!" and you should heed it for your own good. After all, those who own the scanners will not rush to save you when "the system" inevitably fails. Have respect for yourself and walk away from the scanners. Starve those who use them.
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I would say that for security, spreading the ideas of liberty is equally important to an armed populace. A majority can still push around a minority if both are armed; it is just more difficult for them.
They are liars, Kent.
Do not let anyone you care about walk innocently into this incredible breach of human privacy.
All this BS that they "block out" genitals and faces, and they won't "save the pictures".
At my blog here, is the "real" picture they see - not the purposely over-exposed version they give out to the media!
freedomfliesblackflag.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/perverts-at-the-airport/
That caption needs to read and re-read as it will apply to all of us:
"If you see this woman, can you tell her she is naked on the Internet"
Black Flag - wow, that is amazingly clear. I had extreme doubts about their blurring of faces and deleting pictures afterwards - this is just blatant, this woman is exposed!
I'm not sure how you plan to "starve 'em out" without giving up air travel altogether. But those who do support the scanners (not me) should look at the images: They do not look all the way through the body. So -- on their argument of "if it'll save ONE life..." -- then they should logically support a method of effectively searching a traveler: FULL CAVITY SEARCH. Yes, this is bound to dismay granny in the wheelchair, but she is going to have to BEND OVER and SPREAD 'EM. So, trailer-park patriots, "if it'll save ONE life...."
I have given up travel on commercial airlines since October 2002. Screw them all.
GeorgeFKennan- That's exactly what I mean, and what I have done. There is no "service" I need bad enough to put up with such violations.
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