As feared..We've reached bulldashery levels with the TSA!

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Originally Posted by emshighway

And so are many laws but they must be followed.

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AHHHH!! We have our Frost/Nixon moment finally!! The admission we've all been looking for! The TSA admits their protocols are incredibly stupid!!! :cool::cool::cool: This topic of discussion is over! :) Glad I was able to spice things up a bit!

I was going to stay out of this one, because I can see points on both sides of the argument. I just read a thread, however, in another site, which indicates that there is a dramatic surge in TSA employees developing cancer from exposure to these new scanners.

I am posting the links here, but IF proven true, I think this opens up a WHOLE other can of worms...
http://www.infowars.com/cancer-surge...ches-cover-up/

http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-feat...cancer-cluster

There was another link to a set of emails, but as that is of dubious legality I am refraining from posting that here.

Point is--my wife as you know is a cancer survivor and has gotten legislation passed to MANDATE disclosure of information which can help catch breast cancer early. We are VERY sensitive to radiation issues, and IF this is true, it changes the whole complexion of the issue.

Sorry, not an official TSA comment but nice try.

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Originally Posted by gonzalu

If experience is any indication, all I have to complain about is the lack of resources at the busiest checkpoints.

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You have to blame Congress on this one. They are the ones who set the number of Officers and their bill cuts the number by 5000 this year. Oh by the way the way there are only 43,000 Officers nationwide and every airport gets a piece of the pie.

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Originally Posted by Art at ISP

I was going to stay out of this one, because I can see points on both sides of the argument. I just read a thread, however, in another site, which indicates that there is a dramatic surge in TSA employees developing cancer from exposure to these new scanners.

I am posting the links here, but IF proven true, I think this opens up a WHOLE other can of worms...
http://www.infowars.com/cancer-surge...ches-cover-up/

http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-feat...cancer-cluster

There was another link to a set of emails, but as that is of dubious legality I am refraining from posting that here.

Point is--my wife as you know is a cancer survivor and has gotten legislation passed to MANDATE disclosure of information which can help catch breast cancer early. We are VERY sensitive to radiation issues, and IF this is true, it changes the whole complexion of the issue.

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I haven't analyzed this all yet. My personal opinion is I would prefer to see the thermal imagers. There wouldn't be the radiation or privacy issues as it doesn't emit anything and just shows cold spots. The Back Scatter and Millimeter wave were pushed out by order of the President. I have been through the Backscatter many times and have been there during the radiation leak tests and seen the readings.

Not to make excuses but pretty much everything is emitting radiation or EMFs. Look at cell phones. Many reports show they cause cancer but sales are at the highest.