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America, Wake Up & Smell the Baloney-- Use of Full-Body Scanners Violates Human Rights

Rik Merchant, Yahoo! Contributor Network
Jan 7, 2010


'Live free or die'. No, wait. 'Live in fear, die in fear' is the motto that best represents today's American society, which allows the United States government to violate human rights in the name of anti-terrorism or whatever other lullaby camouflage the government wants to use to lull its citizens into acquiescence of ceding their inviolate rights in exchange for false safety from the glorified fictional Boogie Man, whose persona alters according to the U.S.'s current worldview of the latest enemy— in this case, terrorism.

The current weapon of choice to wage in the 'war against terrorism' is the full-body scanner— a full-body imaging device that reveals any guns, knives, or other weaponry that a person is carrying. The scanner is for use in certain airports in the U.S. thus far by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Other countries such as Canada, Great Britain, The Netherlands, and Nigeria are also using or will use the full-body scanner.

But, hey! So what if every airline passenger is forcibly mandated to subject himself to a full-body X-ray scan by a full-body scanner that may cause health risks (for frequent flyers) but also constitutes the photographic virtual rape of an adult as well as the visual pornographic molestation of a child. Maybe the statement is extreme. But the scanner's virtual strip search exposes a person's genitalia— and surgical implants such as breasts. Some reports say that passengers' faces and private parts are concealed but does that allow for different size humans?

Reports indicate that as air travelers stand in either the sophisticated cylindrical Millimeter Wave unit or between the two crude boxes of the Backscatter scanner, a lone security official is viewing the image— although I've seen pictures of scanner units with the viewing screen attached, easily visible by anyone standing around. The image is deleted— we are told. So, travelers can trust that their scanned body image will never wind up in FBI files.

Celebrities can have complete faith that celebrity news website Thirty-Mile-Zone (TMZ) will never be able to tempt a security official to sell their image so that TMZ can then upload it to the Internet for all voyeuristic eyes to behold. We will never see the headline 'Star John Doe: Full-Body Scan Exposes Penile Implant— TMZ has Exclusive Photo!' Did TSA employee Susan Hallowell expected her full-body scan to appear on the Internet? (see photo). Another thought— what is to stop a security official from blabbing to TMZ about a celebrity's surgical implants?

So, to the great inconvenience of traveling celebrities and ordinary folk nearly everywhere, how many terrorists does the U.S., at least, expect to capture? In order to predict that, the National Security Agency (NSA) needs to know how many terrorists against the U.S. are in the U.S. But no one really knows. One estimate puts the count at well below one thousand. So, out of a U.S. population of 305+ million in 2009, the ratio of terrorists could be 1:508,333, which means that for every 508,333 U.S. inhabitants, one might be a terrorist. Factor in the unavoidable inaccuracy rate— which could lead to the NSA mistakenly identifying ordinary American citizens as terrorists— and we can conclude that the NSA may as well be searching for Martians on the planet Uranus.

Perhaps the use of full-body scanners isn't a big deal in itself. But in the big picture of American society, the use is just another victory for the ruling bureaucrats who have already put Americans under mass surveillance— via the NSA's monitoring of all phone calls and e-mails— in their self-interest of mass mind enslavement and ensuing populace control. The minute that citizens of a so-called free society have no choice in subjecting themselves to a government-issued directive, then the society is no longer free and the citizens are brainwashed slaves.

On the bright side, a society that implants cancer-hazard wrist chips (which can be cloned) into young children is perhaps not as bad as a society that murders children in sacrificial rites, as happens in Uganda. The camouflage reason for the wrist chips is the idea that they will quickly locate an abducted child. However, in reality, if and when wrist-chip implants are enforced, imagine a society where every man and woman is traceable by the government and any hacker organization— even now, some travelers' personal data encoded in their passports' RFID chips are being hacked.

Still on the bright side, the American government does not torture Americans who participate in apolitical peaceable activities, unlike the Chinese who employ more than 100 torture methods— including the brutal, deforming, electric shock torture— on citizens who practice the gentle, spiritual religion of Falun Gong. As Bob Dylan sang in 'Blowin' in the Wind', "How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free?" But the question in 2010 may really be— How many years can some folk fool— or force— other folk into losing their freedom? It's a mad mad world.