This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA’s insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just like their claims that the program is safe (radiation what?) and non-invasive (nude pictures who?). The scanners are now effectively worthless, as anyone can beat them with virtually no effort. The TSA has been provided this video in advance of it being made public to give them an opportunity to turn off the scanners and revert to the metal detectors. I personally believe they now have no choice but to turn them off.
Please share this video with your family, friends, and most importantly, elected officials in federal government. Make sure they understand that your vote is contingent on them fixing the abuse that 200,000 passengers face from the TSA on a daily basis.
My legal battle against the TSA’s nude body scanner and pat-down molestation program continues in court, soon with a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court. If you’d like to donate to this effort, send PayPal to: jon [at] fourtentech.com
I’d like to thank:
Travel Underground – http://www.travelunderground.org/
Freedom to Travel USA – http://fttusa.org/
Legislators who have stood up to the TSA – especially Dr. Ron Paul & Sen. Rand Paul
…and all those who have both publicly and privately stood up to the TSA.
Add me on Twitter: @tsaoutourpants (no “of”)
Transcript:
I’m publishing this video because I want the world to know how much danger the American Transportation Security Administration is putting all us all in with their haste to deploy the expensive, invasive nude body scanner program. When the machines came out, we were told that the invasion on our privacy, doses of radiation, and trashing of our Constitution were necessary because the old metal detectors weren’t good enough. That “non-metallic explosives” were a threat, even though no one has boarded a plane in the US with any type of explosive in nearly 40 years. But while America was testing these devices, Rafi Sela, who ran security for Ben Gurion airport in Israel, which is known for being one of the most secure airports in the world, was quoted saying he could “overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to take down a Boeing 747,” and Ben Gurion therefore refused to buy scanners. The US ignored this warning, and Mr. Sela never publicly explained his statement. But it stuck with me.
As a scientist, engineer, and frequent traveler, as well as the first person to sue the TSA when they rolled out the scanners as primary in Nov. 2010, I studied and learned about both kinds of scanners currently in use by the TSA. Here are several images produced by TSA nude body scanners. You’ll see that the search victim is drawn with light colors and placed on a black background in both images. In these samples, the individuals are concealing metallic objects that you can see as a black shape on their light figure. Again that’s light figure, black background, and BLACK threat items. Yes that’s right, if you have a metallic object on your side, it will be the same color as the background and therefore completely invisible to both visual and automated inspection.
It can’t possibly be that easy to beat the TSA’s billion dollar fleet of nude body scanners, right? The TSA can’t be that stupid, can they?
Unfortunately, they can, and they are. To put it to the test, I bought a sewing kit from the dollar store, broke out my 8th grade home ec skills, and sewed a pocket directly on the side of a shirt. Then I took a random metallic object, in this case a heavy metal carrying case that would easily alarm any of the “old” metal detectors, and walked through a backscatter x-ray at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. On video, of course. While I’m not about to win any videography awards for my hidden camera footage, you can watch as I walk through the security line with the metal object in my new side pocket. My camera gets placed on the conveyer belt and goes through its own x-ray, and when it comes out, I’m through, and the object never left my pocket.
Maybe a fluke? Ok, let’s try again at Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport through one of the TSA’s newest machines: a millimeter wave scanner with automated threat detection built-in. With the metallic object in my side pocket, I enter the security line, my device goes through its own x-ray, I pass through, and exit with the object without any complaints from the TSA.
While I carried the metal case empty, by one with mal-intent, it could easily have been filled with razor blades, explosives, or one of Charlie Sheen’s infamous 7 gram rocks of cocaine. With a bigger pocket, perhaps sewn on the inside of the shirt, even a firearm could get through. It’s important to note that any metal object of any size can use this technique. …and I don’t urge you to try to bring contraband through security, as the nude body scanners often have false positives: so while the metal on your side might get through, a button on your shirt or a sweaty armpit might “look suspicious” and earn you a pat down anyway.
Now, I’m sure the TSA will accuse me of aiding the terrorists by releasing this video, but it’s beyond belief that the terrorists haven’t already figured this out and are already plotting to use this against us. It’s also beyond belief that the TSA did not already know everything I just told you, and arrogantly decided to disregard our safety: anything to force Americans to give up our liberty to the federal government and our tax dollars to companies that are in bed with that government. The nude body scanner program is nothing but a giant fraud, which should come as no surprise after the Fast & Furious scandal that sent thousands of guns to Mexican drug cartels and cost a Customs and Border Patrol agent his life. THIS is a disgrace. So let’s fix this problem — now — before the terrorists take this opportunity to hurt us: the TSA must immediately end the nude body scanner program, and return to the tried-and-true metal detectors that actually work, and work without invading our privacy, as well as implement better solutions for non-metallic explosives, such as bomb-sniffing dogs and trace detection machines.
The TSA is worse than ineffective: they are an epic fail placing us all in danger. Beyond the scanners, Demand of your legislators and presidential candidates that they get rid of this $8B a year waste known as the TSA and privatize airport security. Ask for their commitment to our rights in exchange for your vote. And no matter which party is in the White House or holds on to Capital Hill, the issue of ending TSA abuse is of interest to all Americans; it’s NOT a partisan issue. We must all stand together and demand an end to the organization that molests our families while placing us in danger by directly ignoring blatant security flaws.
Thank you.
Professional Troublemaker ® 
Can’t the TSA get around this just by taking a side view?
Which proves the point that these machines are worthless.
You are quite correct the scanners are a ineffective, expensive and dangerous out health and civil liberties. I designed USA made radiation protective garments as a way to offer the public some relief. The false choice of microwave radiation, an x-ray or dirty blue glove is not very attractive. Only to be looked at by unknown persons in a remote room. It is a job program and a cash cow for the scanner mfg. Sadly training the next generation for prison life. The real story is the health issues created by the general use of radiation for ‘security.’ Twenty seven new drive through x-ray portals at the borders look into your car. The mobile x-ray vans on the streets and parking lots of sporting events. The machines need to go.
You are a smart guy but I don’t know how well you see how these types of people operate… No offense, but they will use whatever argument you make for their own ends. Mark my words: this suit will result in more invasive, more expensive, and probably more dangerous security procedures being added on to our budget. I like the direction you’re going in here, but I also see the direction our government is going in, so I can’t help but be skeptical of the end result of this hooplah. Best of luck to you though, I am definitely watching the reactions of our various politicians to this issue. Thank you for raising it in an intellectually defensible manner.
Somebody tried to put a bomb in a shoe and airport security started making everybody remove their shoes. Somebody tried to use liquid explosives and security started banning all liquids. What will happen when terrorists use the inside guts of a laptop to make a weapon or a bomb? Or a phone? The fact that shoes get extra scans is a joke. If special scans and rules only get implemented *after* terrorism or attempted terrorism then the entire process has to be a charade or a boondoggle. I don’t even care one whit about the invasion of my privacy. I’m insulted by how stupid and almost certainly ineffective it is. This “revelation” is not the least bit surprising.
Some of the comments mentioned Israel’s security in Ben Gurion airport. I agree that their security is impressive and it has to be tough for a terrorist to beat their multiple interviews by pairs of people who confer and are intelligent (and often attractive; not sure if that’s a coincidence); however I have a question — last I traveled, their high security was ONLY IN BEN GURION. Security in airports for flights going *to* Israel was usually higher than fpr other destinations but it was nothing like the security at Ben Gurion. So what’s the point? Makes no sense to me. Probably another boondoggle. I have not traveled to or from Israel since about a year or two after 9/11; I’m curious whether things are different now.
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong: Isn’t all that is necessary having people get through a metal detector to make sure they don’t have a bomb and then keeping the cockpit door shut for the entire flight? What’s with the nude scanners?
Thanks for doing this, the world needs to know and not everyone has the balls you do to tell it like it is. I hope this gets huge, I shared it with everyone I could.
Beyond belief? Hardly. The TSA isn’t there to protect anyone or anything but their own jobs, which are to be seen to do something. Harassing travelers is pretty noticeable, so that approach is working peacy fine. The spendy kit is good for propping up an entire(ly useless) industry, so that’s job-creatin’ good too. Almost every press release about terrorism (or cyberterrorism or whatever) is a thinly veiled self-justificated bid for more budget these days.
And teh terrists? They don’t need to do anything right now, they don’t even need to be there, and they’ll still achieve their goal: Being a right pain in the arse, being on everyone’s minds. Remember, their goal isn’t to kill people, that’s just collateral damage; they’ll even accept their own to be killed for things that are their goals, something even the US military is reluctant to do these days. Their presence in our (overlords’) minds is a given, and no amount of spending lives and mounting daring operations is going to improve on that. So why bother? Let the infidel governments stew, and hit them when and where they’ll least suspect it. Far too much attention to bother with airports for now.
Once you understand that the TSA is not at all about actual security it starts to make much more sense. What is much more curious is, why bait the US govt and why was it so eager to take the bait and start several wars?
For eager it was. Remember the WMD claims? The incompetent lying scum-face the TSA presents the traveler, the US government presented the world including its own NATO partners. It has lost face and standing, it is no longer quite as trusted as it once was. This might be hard to see from within the US, but from the outside it’s obvious. If that was bin Laden’s goal, he’s succeeded quite well–mind that his own death might’ve been but a calculated risk in his mind, and it’s come far too late to do much good. That leaves the US. Why be quite that stupid?
The TSA is a sign on the wall. We all know they suck, and –since experience elsewhere has shown you can do this competently, without these scanners– this appears to’ve been intentional. The real questions lie behind that simple fact.
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i wish i had the option to fly on a “low security” flight. I can just skip the security line, but know that i am taking a risk, and someone could pull a gun or something. I am pretty sure i have a much better chance of dying on my motorcycle.
Note to TSA: Change the backgrounds to a different color. Fixed!
I have always refused to go through the body scanners, even on the occasions where I was given grief and even back handed mean comments by the security enforcers. I do not feel comfortable going through these machines, and all the times that I have insisted on not going through them, I am given a thorough patdown, which I always complied to because I didn’t want to be seen as a terrorist. I am a ninteen year old college student flying home for the weekend, and although i understand how it is “politically incorrect” to profile people, I just think its a little ridiculous when they treat me like a bomber when I refuse, just because I am not comfortable with it. Its going too far, especially when it doesn’t even work. But it seems to work just fine in showing whats hiding under your clothes.
Could you hang the video on Vimeo or some other service that doesn’t require logging in to see it? Thank you.
“Now, I’m sure the TSA will accuse me of aiding the terrorists by releasing this video, but it’s beyond belief that the terrorists haven’t already figured this out and are already plotting to use this against us.”
What’s wrong with this statement? It’s the fact that there are probably no terrorists on US actually actively plotting against you.
Guess what, the terror threat inside the US is a boogeyman invented by the “give us more money, we need to defend you!” departments. Even the FBI is only catching confused wannabe extremists that only got as far as buying and building explosives because they were being encouraged by, guess whom, FBI undercover agents!
If a terrorist is serious, he would just wear a bomb-belt, a thick raincoat, and walk into the TSA queue in a busy airport. Or who needs complicated bomb-belts? 10 grenades in a back-pack. There’d be enough panic that he’d be able to arm and throw all of them in 1 or 2 minutes. The response will be so devastating (1 guy jumps through a security barrier line in an airport, airport gets shutdown for 3 hours. 1 guy throws 10 grenades, I bet it’ll result in the shutdown of US airspace) that it would be worth it. Will the TSA then make a security checkpoint that you have to go through before you go into the queue?
Thanks for sharing this. Totally shocking. What a waste of money not to say a needless invasion of countless people’s privacy and the whole time the machines are useless. This must be brought to the attention of every airport and government who use these machines.
What makes me even angrier than having to go through the body scanners is that there are other scanner options that do not give off radiation and have a less revealing image of the body. I cannot confirm, but heard that the reason the US chose the radiation option was that someone in or formerly in govt. is connected to the company that manufactures the machines.
The scanners are very open – does the radiation pose a danger to all travelers in the area?
You can find out which airports do not have scanners, but all will get them eventually. The closest airport to me, Reno, is installing them right now. They have to redesign (move shops and restaurants, remove a nice waiting area) half the airport to accommodate a central security area to replace the current metal detectors in each concourse. One security area will likely result in more time in line to get nervous about the scan!
I’m not libertarian but you’re an idiot. We are not remotely safer now. The security theater gives a false sense of security, which is even worse than before. The reason no attacks have happened against the US is because no one has tried. Everyone who did try got passed security and screwed something up themselves.
Albert Einstein made use of “thought experiments” to uncover truths, why don’t we try one?
Let’s assume that there are no terrorists.
The basis for this assumption is overwhelming evidence that 911 was not the result of some men with box-cutters.
The “Shoe Bomber” was smart enough to make explosives, (at the time it was claimed that the explosive was PETN, incredibly difficult to manufacture outside a specialised laboratory), but did not know that without a detonator, it is just another “fire-lighter”.
The “Liquid Bombers” were so amateurish, that the government knew more about their plans than they did, again, it was supposed to be the ingredients for PETN, a process that would take some 12 hours, and needed an environment below 12degC to work. Exactly how this was to be achieved in an aircraft toilet was never explained.
The underwear bomber, flew without a passport check and was escorted around the security at Schipol. He also tried to “set light” to the explosive, Very damaging to the groin area, but absolutely no serious danger to the plane.
If a “real” terrorist wanted to kill a lot of people because they were “free”, why not drag two suitcases with around 50 kilos of explosive, wrapped in another 20 kilos of shrapnel, into the waiting check-in lines, and explode them there? Easily take out 200-300 people. If you duck around the side of a concrete pillar before detonating, you could live to come back tomorrow.
So:
Cui Bono? who benefits? Who has made millions (billions?) from this scam?
Who is being “programmed” into accepting “Show me your papers citizen” and searched at every street corner (starting with Train station, Bus Station, Town Hall etc.)? “What is the purpose of your journey?”
Why were a number of senior KGB (Committee for State Security) people hired by the Department for Homeland Security in the early nineties?
Boycotting the airlines won’t work, that is one of the purposes, one does not allow the sheep to just go wherever they want on a farm, you keep them in little paddocks until it is time use them.
Please people, stop reacting, sit down and think for a while.
Who benefits, who resists, who conforms, how ready are the masses for the next step?
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” C S Lewis
“Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means” Senator Jenner
Without a right to resist, we have a duty to submit . nom-de-cyber Jack Dunphy.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. H L Mencken
As Plato said: ‘This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector’.
I don’t think you understand what a thought experiment is…. What you’ve done is called “Begging the Question” and it is a common logical fallacy. Just because you can imagine what you think a “real” terrorist would doesn’t mean you’ve proved or disproved anything.
Any explanation you make up for why imaginary or real government conspirators would want to kill people or control people could server equally well to explain why imaginary or real terrorists would want to kill or control people. So which proposed agent should we believe in? The secret group who are invisible to detection by definition, or the group that has publicly stated a goal of killing or converting non-believers in their religious fundamentalism?
Anyway, whether or not you believe in terrorists, or however you explain 9/11, is irrelevant to this thread. All sane people want some form of basic airport security; we just want one that is effective and reasonably balanced with regard to invasiveness versus threat risk. And that’s not an easy balance to maintain.
That said, the TSA policies do strike me as ineffective and generally stupid, and we ought to be outraged about the amount of money wasted. Props to the blogger.
My understanding of a “thought experiment” …”considers some hypothesis, theory,[1] or principle for the purpose of thinking through its consequences”
Which is why I put forward a hypothesis (there are no terrorists) and asked people to consider the consequences.
I would ask what “Question” I put forward, to have you accuse me of “petitio principii”, and logical fallacies?
I agree, “the TSA policies do strike me [and everybody who thinks about them] as ineffective and generally stupid”, but whilst the foot soldiers of the TSA could be “Stupid” not everybody in the organisation could be that ignorant.
Therefore I would conclude that they (the intelligent ones at the top) have another agenda, I am asking What is it?
To argue about whether it is safe or not safe, effective or ineffective, constitutional or un-constitutional, is pointless and falling for their deception, if the objective, is not to protect from terrorists, but for some other goal.
My point is entirely relevant to the thread, people’s thinking is so tied to “they are doing it for our safety” that they can only argue the process.
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” –Arthur Schopenhauer
I am suggesting that we [all] sit down quietly, and ask “What if it is all a lie? what if the TSA is not about our safety, but some other purpose?”
Or, as a “thought experiment”, assume that to be true, and consider the consequences.
The Department of Homeland Security didn’t exist in the early 90’s … so kind of hard to imagine them hiring anybody … let alone former KGB operatives.
You are right of course, if you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security
you will find the list of 22 agencies/departments that were merged to form DHS. (Including the Federal Protective Service and the TSA)
“You will be happy to learn that the former head of the KGB (the secret police of the former Soviet Union), General Yevgeni Primakov, has been hired as a consultant by the US Department of Homeland Security. Do you think he will share his expertise in “security” to prepare US citizens for domestic internal passports under the pretense of fighting the never-ending “War on Terrorism”?” (Al Martin Raw)
What Primakov finds funny are what he calls these “right wing flag wavers” that were so anti-communist and now they’re supporting a state policy of internal passports.
The irony is deafening.
Primakov continued by saying that he had been hired as a consultant and he was consulting on other “security” matters, an ongoing policy in various agencies of government (some of these offices haven’t even been created yet) to consistently narrow the rights of the American people and to expand the power of government. He professed not to know why, the reason for all this was, other than he admitted that “it doesn’t have much to do with ‘fighting terrorism.'”
Then there’s General Karpov, former KGB station chief of their Washington station at their embassy and the first director of the Russian Federal Security Service.
[Yevgeny Primakov and Oleg Kalugin,] Markus Wolfe, the former head of the feared Secret East German State Police (Stasi) apparently work for the US’s ‘New World Order’ as security specialists.*
And these are only the generals, it is not known how many lesser individuals have been hired. (of course it could therefore, be none. I recall other names, at around the time Gorbachev went to the USA, but cannot find the references)
As you can see, they hired the experts, STASI – KGB.
Lovely work!
I thank the universe for people like you.
I wish you all the best. Each day the dominoes fall and the house of cards loses one more support.
You’re awesome! 🙂
Judging by available info, there appears to be an adjustable contrast/brightness which renders this video a failure. By enhancing brightness, you can easily see different levels of depth around the object. Pictures posted here are sharp cut off of a very contrast and dark scan, but several other images on the Internet clearly show a rather different setting which easily makes side objects distinguishable.
Actually, no. That’s not how imaging works. At all.
It’s this simple: either the beams “see” an item or they don’t”. The point here is that these beams need a different density background, such as that of a human body, to detect these items. Place the item to the side of the body, it’s just in the air, and adjusting the contrast won’t do a thing.
The whole thing’s a sham.
Whilst I appreciate the criticism of the TSA nude body scanners and how it’s intrusive compared to metal scanners.. I think this article makes a big leap in assumption by saying the technology is useless and can be easily overcome by terrorists. All it has done really is shown that the *procedures* for using the scanner can, not the actual technology itself.
Whilst it’s right to point out this failing, I think the end result is likely to be longer scans and people being made to stand sideways as well as front and back. The government is unlikely to abandon its investment in this technology over what seems to be a small procedural oversight.
It’s incredible though that the developers of this technology and/or the airport authorities didn’t realise this for themselves before putting the scanners and procedures into use.
Airport
Although I am 100-years-old and wear a diaper, the Gestapo at the airport were pleased to take orders when they confiscated my diaper and did a strip search which the brutes denied to the complicit and docile News Media, those who were too busy reelecting the dictator in waiting, he, the one who, for now, breaches the Constitution in small ways. Only my husband should have touched me intimately on that day of infamy before my Revelation. Oh my dear Billy, he was so brave trying to defend me.
My husband Billy had been through the war, but never expected to live through a tyranny at home. After I screamed, chaos broke out. The grandchildren, running into the restricted area, knocked over the rope and stanchions, threw candy and keys from the screening trays, and when a guard approached, two of them tore off his shoes and bit him hard enough to rip flesh and draw blood. When they got him onto the ground, they stabbed him in the neck with a crayon. Another guard drew his gun and little Johnny, David, Sarah, and George together picked up a stanchion and threw it at the guard’s head like a missile. The guard fell to the ground and the gun flew out of his hand. Johnny picked up the gun, and all the grandchildren stormed into the interrogation room. Sarah screamed, “Leave Grandma alone. Give her back her clothes.”
Meanwhile, those silly girly stewardesses, or whatever they call those bitches nowadays, were screaming at my husband Billy to control the children. When he ran to my aid, the Gestapo tried to grab him, but he hit a guard in the neck with his cane and knocked him into a stack of others. Johnny handed him the gun because after all, he had been in the war and knew how to handle it. When the SWAT team arrived, my poor dear husband, Billy, raised the gun and before they could shoot him, he had a heart attack and died. That’s when I saw the Light, heard the ethereal voice, and left my body.
I saw Billy go into the Light and I wanted to go with him, but a voice said you must go back because you have a special purpose now. It seemed like many Angels hovered around me and a feeling of pure Love enveloped me. But then, a woman dressed in armor came forward. She said, “I am Joan of March and God has a Grand Mission for you that you must lead.” That’s when I was infused with a message that I was to lead “The Women in Diapers and Children’s Crusade to Defeat the Taliban.”
When I returned to my body, I noticed that everyone had left. Apparently, there was a new emergency. I ran back, naked (couldn’t find my clothes quickly), into the main area, and there were dead bodies scattered everywhere. The man who could not be profiled, whose middle-eastern country and nervous appearance was not to be named or described for fairness, had set off a bomb. His friends suddenly appeared from a cargo area with machine guns. When they looked at me, they were frightened. As the SWAT team was shooting them dead, I somehow escaped from the airport. It was a hectic day.
The March
All the women in diapers over 90, and the children under 13, arrived together in a private plane. It was a modified troop carrier of biblical proportions that Billy’s friends had arranged for. We met in a secret field outside of Casablanca. Joan of March appeared in a vision that seemed to hover in a cloud above us. Her apparition became as bright as the sun. She said, “You must march naked across the mountains, across Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. I shall smite any man who will not look at you and bow. Thenceforth, they will cover themselves in shame from head to foot in sackcloth. In Egypt there will be plagues and from the sky shall descend a flying heavenly teacup that will transport you on to the unholy lands near Afghanistan. Our Lady of Godiva will supply you with chocolate which will be your manna and the sun will cool as if in winter. When you raise your walkers above your heads all troops will retreat before it, and the children will help you with this. Do not be afraid.”
Incongruously, a soothsayer in our entourage said to her, “Must we beware the Ides of March?”
Joan said, “No. Gird yourself for battle, and…”
A voice from the crowd interrupted her: “You’ve got to be kidding.”
Joan said, “Yes.”
So now we’re giggling across the desert with chocolate and a dream, and we shall see what happens. I heard Billy say, “Go for it.” And the children have crayons.
Notes
Yes, satire.
Feeble old incontinent Anglo-Saxon native born American women are unlikely to be terrorists. They can’t always stand in the x-ray machine at the airport and they sometimes have metal parts in their bodies, must wear adult diapers or colonostomy bags and other indelicate things. Old ladies such as these have recently been strip searched at JFK airport in New York, and other airports to see if they have bombs or other weapons.
The Constitution of the United States, Amendments, ratified December 15, 1791, Article IV: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Highlights:
“Unreasonable searches and seizures” Unreasonable?
“Probable cause” : I swear that this old lady could be a terrorist
“Warrant” Requires a judge.
— June Tarr
(Joan Adams)
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Wow bro! Great article on the TSA body scanners … you read prompter better than Obama! But seriously … this is something more Americans should be aware of so I thank you for your efforts in producing those hidden cam videos and having the balls to actually do something instead of just Facebook commenting and such.
Reblogging this on many venues bro.
Much luck and blessings.
– Kristobaldude
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The body scanner can see through multiple layers of clothing (and underware). Simply adding a cloth pocket to the inside of a shirt would hide nothing. This would be the same as saying that wearing white underwear would hide your body underneath. It does not. If this guy was able to simply walk through the scanner without triggering an inspection was probably due to the fact that the TSA operators were either complacent or simply lazy…scary either way! I can just see a wave of morons now trying to pass knives and guns through the body scanner to prove a point or get your kicks.
I totally agree that Naked Body Scanners are an unconstituional invasion of privacy and completely unAmerican.
This blogger is a true Patriot and I firmly believe he did walk through both an AIT and ATR scanner. ATR scanners use software to analyze the results of the illegal search, so is independent of operator error.
All deployed scanners are failures.
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Another reason (as if it were needed) to protest the TSA’s body scanners.
Impressive video, but I am left with one question. Maybe they spotted it and didn’t care? Did you do a control test or two where you left the case in your front pocket to see if they reacted any differently?
Thanks for sharing! A really interesting watch.
the problem with making their vote contingent on anything is the same in US as in UK – who else is there to vote for? if you don’t vote for anyone, then the few assholes who vote for the human shit of our politicians will get their excrement into office by a tiny minority vote. I’ve often said this – you cannot expect and will never have positive change for the better by means of your political system. sorry to destroy your fantasies about change and good futures, but reality is always more invigorating, I find. goodbye America, you were the greatest democracy of all time and now you are nothing, a police theocracy, riven by primitive superstition and childbeating for jesus. you could always decide to run for office yourself, if you are not too much of a coward and don’t have a criminal record.
You’d think they’d have been able to very simply test that, wouldn’t you…?
The plan was to make LOTS of money …. NOT to provide a working solution.
Which is annoying, inappropriate and incompetent.
For those on Facebook, check out these two fan pages:
All Facebook Against Full Body Scanners
Please Remove Your Shoes: The Myth of America’s Airport Security (the name of a documentary that I wrote and co-produced)
I love your documentary! Thank you for your very fine work. 🙂
YOu are my hero sir!
So if the scanners don’t show suspicious items on the profile of a scanned subject, how long before the TSA require people to turn around while being scanned?
They could always change the background color…
Wouldn’t solve the problem.
Imaging doesn’t work the way you think.
Nice try, though.
Nice vid.
Even though you mention the illegal gun running, the tone of the vid suggests that we still have a representative government. Epic fail. We could not have the sheer volume of fraud, waste and abuse if the “government” had 1% integrity. It’s all a circus. Our government is dead.
The real terrorists have taken control of this country and most of the world.
It is a well documented FACT that TSA has never caught a Terrorist, but, TSA Human Resources has found a whole lot of TERRORISTS. As a matter of fact, TSA Human Resources only hires Terrorists. The best “anti-terrorist” move the USA could make, would be to arrest everyone that TSA Human Resources hires because that is all they hire, Terrorists. Rapists, Thieves, Muggers, Pedophiles, Drug Smugglers. — This is a deliberate parallel to the Gestapo, Kgb, STASSI and similar Totalitarian Secret police, who prefer the anti-social misfits in their ranks, as such types happily engage in repression, oppression, and abuse of Human RIGHTS..
“Integrity, Team Spirit, Innovation” is sewn around the border of the newest TSA patch. Have you ever seen an organization that had to SEW A REMINDER not to STEAL, LIE, and CHEAT on their own shoulders!!!! They STEAL from the “abandoned” items, BACK-STAB the PASSENGERS and their CO-Workers and “INNOVATIVELY” CHEAT on their own tests.
Supervisors PADDING their hours to make house payments.
Supervisors staggering in drunk.
Supervisors yelling all NON-Christians should leave the country
Supervisors expressing their desire to see certain U.S. Senators DEAD
The TSA is specificly designed to lull the American Public into passively accepting random, pointless, searches at the whim of the government. Look at them. TSA screeners are being trained to be smiling and polite. WHY? To appear benign and unthreatening as they strip you of your Freedom. The reason they came up with an underwear bomber is the same reason they came up with a shoe bomber. First they wanted to get into your shoes and then they wanted to get into your underwear. After that they want to get into your body. But job one, day one, they want to get into your head. These are stages of humiliation designed to strip you of your dignityLook at their faces, if YOU seriously believed the next passenger (PAX) might be an armed and murderously suicidal killer, would you be all relaxed and cheery? If you seriously believed that the next suitcase you open may blow you to Kingdom Come, would you be a Perky Pixie? If you do NOT believe that ……… WHY ARE YOU HERE!?
TSA …….. the REAL threat to America and FREEDOM.
Whoooooa whoa whoa, dude. You already have enough to accuse them of, which is severe incompetence and greed – both of which are objectively proven – but you’re really piling these accusations up in a way that’s slightly ridiculous. I sincerely doubt every single airport security guard in America is some kind of racist conspiracy cult member who deliberately stays in for overtime money, gets drunk, and intends solely to rape and terrorise people. =| I might be a little too believing in the natural good (or intended good) of the human race here, but I find the concept of that many people with that many evil desires, all deliberately hired by and working for a company that specialises in those evil desires to be… exaggerated.
And you’re doing it for no reason, too. You shouldn’t really have to throw that much on top to make it seem heinous enough for people to want it to stop. It’s like you’re treating your audience as a collective idiot.
Limnings is a better word; it implies that some idiot is jumping off the cliff and all the rest are following! Thnaks for the vidio!
I believe that is Lemmings.
It’s Capitol Hill.
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Well done! The research you put into making this video far exceeds anything the TSA did before rolling out the scanners. Adding you to my blogroll.
MR