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Airport Body Scanners Obscene and Dangerous

This is an interesting story By Dr. William Campbell Douglass on which was originally posted at  HealtheirTalk.com under the title: “X-Rated Airport Scanner’s First Victim”.

An Indian film star has found himself the subject of an unexpected nude shoot.  You’ve probably never heard of Shahrukh Khan, but to call him an Indian actor would be like calling Stephen Spielberg a guy who makes films in California.

Khan is one of the world’s richest and most successful movie stars, even if he’s a complete unknown in the United States. He ranked 41st on Newsweek’s list of the world’s most powerful people last year — ahead of mighty Oprah, and only five places behind the Pope.

I’m not about to confess my secret love of Bollywood films — I’d never heard of the guy myself. But he’s got a cautionary tale for all of us, and it happened on a screen where Big Brother wants all of us to be the star.

“King Khan,” as he’s known, had the misfortune of strolling through one of those new full-body airport scanners I’ve been warning you about…the kind that peek beneath your clothing and snap an image of your privates, just in case you’re hiding weapons beneath your scrotum.

Airport officials and security “experts” have sworn up and down that these images aren’t saved…and that faces are automatically blurred so the screener, who’s in an isolated location, has no idea who’s getting Big Brother’s electronic evil eye.

But try telling that to Khan — because he says he was later greeted by airport workers in London who had printouts of his x-rated X-ray.

So much for their privacy claims — I hope you didn’t buy that hogwash in the first place. If low-wage airport workers can rape his privacy and get away with it, they can do far worse to you.  Meanwhile, their bogus safety claims are already getting a second look too.

The Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety says these things pose a health risk — and that pregnant women and children should not be forced through them. The report — which wasn’t meant to be made public — also said governments should have to justify their use of these radiation machines.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen.

Remember: There is NO safe level of ionizing radiation. If you have to fly in Big Brother’s world, I feel bad for you — because the plan is for EVERY air traveler, including pregnant women and babies, to pose for the government’s candid cameras.

Author Info: William Campbell Douglass I.I., M.D. has been called “the conscience of modern medicine,” and the National Health Federation voted him “Doctor of the Year.”

Airport Security: Please Get it Right

So here we go again, making the entire flying public dance to the tune of airplane terrorists who manage to come up with one crazy scheme after another to blow up planes and nearly get away with it.  I’m pretty sure if I were on that flight and saw the terrorist in action I would have pummeled him to death right where he sat, except I would have moved out of danger from the flames, of course.  Luckily for me, most of my traveling is done in the semi-comfort of my car.

What is particularly irksome is the invasive proceedings everyone has to put up with, on top of the delays, missed flights, missed business meetings, missed vacation bookings and on and on.

Not a single TV news report that I’ve seen has discussed the radiation exposure through those totally obscene body scans that reveal people’s genitals.  It goes beyond obscene, because people in government think this is just dandy.

The public is already exposed to myriad germs by being forced to walk around without their shoes on.  The airports were originally supposed to supply little throwaway booties.  They don’t and they don’t care about people’s health because they’ve become bullies in a long line of bully legislation.

I find it unfathomable that no scientist can come up with a noninvasive throughly safe procedure to scan for weapons and toxins.  It’s 2010 for Christ sake, when do we start acting like we know what we’re doing about anything?  Do I have the answers?  Hell no. But surely there are people somewhere who can figure out at some of these things.

I’m all for profiling, especially after seeing one old woman being forced to stand out of her wheelchair and submit to body pats.  And I do say this somewhat facetiously, but maybe we should think about not allowing anyone from terrorist countries from being able to come to our country.  Oh, you’re Nigerian, sorry.  Of, you’re from Saudi Arabia, sorry – unless you’re coming here to give everyone a million dollars of your oil money or free gasoline for life.

TSA, FAA, Homeland Security … all of you, come up with something better.  And use some common sense while you’re at it.  If you’re going to continually irradiate people, at least have the courtesy of giving them free health care.  Oh I forgot, you guys in government can’t seem to get that going either.  And there aren’t even any terrorists involved with that!  I think I’m with the ACLU on this issue.  Please, get it right. (KS, San Francisco)