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Body Scanners for the London Underground

Posted by timothy on from the require-nakedness-instead dept.

Ronald Dumsfeld writes "In a report in the TimesOnline, it is alleged that those lovely see-through-your-clothes scanners are to be installed in London's Tube stations. Part of the UK's Military-industrial complex, QinetiQ stands to make £150,000 to £2 million per station ($260,000 - $3.4 million) with their Millimetre Wave Imagers."

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  1. woot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    At these levels, clothing and other materials appear transparent therefore providing the scanner operator with a highly accurate and real-time image of the now uncovered subject.

    WOOT! Hot nekkid ch1cks!1.

  2. Fair enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I can't see anything wrong with that, if it can help in saving a single life, it's worth it.

    And, by the way: First post!

  3. Re:Hype it up! by SCVirus · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why don't you SHUT THE FUCK UP, I'm not an American thank you very much.

  4. Appeasers go to hell by ccmay · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    how about we not occupy/invade/bomb/etc other ppls homes and countries so we don't have to live like this?

    You're a deluded fool if you think that will help.

    We could bring back every soldier, throw Israel to the wolves, quintuple aid to the Muslim world, and not one thing would change.

    Osama and his crew are still bent out of shape about the reconquest of Andalusia in 1492.

    They harbor bitter resentment about the Balfour Declaration and Sykes-Picot Agreement and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, dating back 80 years or more.

    They planned the September 11 attacks long before Bush ever came to power, at a time when the American military was fighting Christian Serbs to protect Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo.

    The Islamists have made it abundantly clear that they will not stop fighting jihad until the whole world lives under a Muslim caliphate. There is no reasoning with such people. We kill them, or they will surely kill us. Now they have nuclear weapons in Pakistan and are on the verge of obtaining them in Iran. Next time they attack London, there could be a hundred thousand casualties rather than 50.

    And with the relative birth rates of Muslims vs. the native populations of Europe, the time is rapidly approaching when Europe will have to decide whether to submit to Sharia law, or expel their Muslim population by force. I'm not kidding. Italian and French women are having 1.2 babies per lifetime, while Muslim women in the same countries are brood mares producing five or six little jihadis each. Demography is destiny, and there is no third option.

    -ccm

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    1. Re:Appeasers go to hell by Kent+Recal · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      What a pile of uninformed, over-exaggerated, racist bullshit.
      I suggest we just keep on expelling people like you and darwin will take care of this nonsense.

    2. Re:Appeasers go to hell by ccmay · · Score: 0, Flamebait
      American emperialism is not limited to the middle east, nor did it start with this administration.

      Even granting such a thing exists, which I do not, how is this relevant to my point about the radical Islamists harboring grievances that are five centuries old? Do you think discussions or appeasement have any place when dealing with such people? In their words, "We are not trying to negotiate with you. We are trying to destroy you."

      out of over 1 billion muslim worldwide, how many are terrorists?

      Of course they are not all terrorists. However, the incidence is surely much greater than among Irishmen or Montanans, intolerably high in my opinion. Sorry the rest of the Religion of Peace has to suffer for the actions of a few, but that is not my concern.

      What percentage would you tolerate before agreeing that allowing further Muslim immigration into the West is a mistake? 1%? 10%? 50%? Everybody needs to ask themselves this question before calling me a racist.

      It's a difference of degree and not of kind. Suppose you knew that 50% of Muslim immigrants were planning to set off bombs in the Tube, but you couldn't really tell which 50%. Would your precious liberal multi-cultural pieties make you meekly accept this? I don't think so.

      Thomas Friedman made the same point in the New York Times just the other day. The time is coming when the nations of the West will make no distinction between peaceful Muslims and the head-choppers. All of them will be quarantined to their own countries.

      -ccm

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    3. Re:Appeasers go to hell by ccmay · · Score: 1, Flamebait
      For a start who are 'The Islamists'? This sounds like a whole people that you are stereotyping under one label.

      The Wahabbi/Salafi school of Sunni Muslims, in particular. We should be targeting the most radical imams for execution or imprisonment, destroying their mosques and madrassas, and deporting their members by the tens of thousands. This is war and it's time we treated it as such.

      scaremongering about relative birthrates and how this means that we'll end up under Muslim domination.

      Sneer all you want, chum. It doesn't change the likelihood that your grandchildren will either have to kill many Muslims, or become Muslim themselves.

      You sound like a fully paid up member of the BNP

      That is an example of the logical fallacy of reductio ad Hitlerum. It does not address the truth or falsity of my assertions.

      -ccm

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    4. Re:Appeasers go to hell by ccmay · · Score: -1, Flamebait
      Why the fuck would someone post such racist filth under their real account?

      I post stuff like this all the time and I have excellent karma. Seems like a lot of people secretly agree with me and give me mod points. Yay for the fascists.

      And why do you feel the need to post anonymously? Are you that unsure of your opinions?

      Pitiful lefties, your day has come and gone. The world is a cruel hard place, always has been, always will be. Every enlightened and humane and pleasant thing you enjoy in Western Civilization was a gift to you from armed, violent men who even now stand watch over you ungrateful wretches.

      How long do you think homosexuals and feminists and Chomskyites would last under a Muslim Caliphate? I'm pretty hard right, it is true, but I am willing to tolerate you and even take some pleasure from saying deliberately inflammatory things so I can argue with you. But I'm not willing to stand by and watch two thousand years of civilization destroyed by the Mahometan fiends.

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    5. Re:Appeasers go to hell by ccmay · · Score: -1, Flamebait
      you help turn it into a "war" instead of letting society focus on solving the root causes.

      Bollocks to root causes. Bin Laden and his cohorts are not poor, uneducated men. There is only one root cause as far as they are concerned, and that is our failure to adopt Islam. They've said so repeatedly.

      -ccm

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  5. Getting What You Deserve by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Congrats Londoners!

    http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/

    You can't go around manfacturing wars and then cry to the world when it starts to come back to bite you in the ass.

  6. Re:Bye Bye Privacy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Essential" is in the eye of the beholder - it is very subjective, and your essential liberties are not mine (and vice versa).

    What's more, that lovely piece of rhetoric is blatantly calling for persecution of the weak and helpless, as these are the ones most likely to compromise on any freedoms they have for "temporary" safety.

    Nice.

    Lets please let that quote die. It was stupid when he said/wrote it, and it's still as stupid now. It might have been good for a rallying speech, but it falls apart under cursory examination... just like most politicians' words do.

  7. Re:Londoner who has been to Israel and the States by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "The money would be better spent on building dialogue with the dis-enfrachised Muslim"

    Hey scumbag, ending Israel's state terrorism and ethnic cleansing would be the first step.

    Hopefully Iran will soon be powerful enough to effect some sort of postivie regime change or even just nuke the place.

  8. In USA public transportation is only for Niggers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Get a car loser!

  9. The perception of guilt by zogger · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are aware a security company was conducting "exercises" on 7-7 in London simultaneously with the attacks? About bombs going off in the subway and on busses? At the *exact* same time the *exact* attack occurred in *exactly* the manner in which it happened? Reported on BBC audio, poofed away now.

    This isn't ringing alarm bells for you over this terrorist attack? You really believe in coincidences of this magnitude? You just blindly accept big brothers government instantaneouly whenever they decide to tell you something?

    Same thing happened in the US ith 9-11.

    It's morning, enjoy some coffee, smell the aroma, breathe deep and *wake up*. Shake the cobwebs out.

  10. Re:I"d Rather Be Scanned Than Murdered by reallocate · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's a good little teen-aged moron, Come back when you grow up and get a brain that's bigger than your testicles.

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  11. Re:The perception of security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, they voted for a bunch of spineless panty-waist appeasers. Their cowardice will only invite more attacks.

  12. Re:The perception of security by kraut · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    >Do you vote for somebody who has lied to you? The Spanisch didn't.

    The Americans did. Well, 50.2% (roughly) did,

    The British did. Well, 36% of those that voted did, but thanks to the ridiculuous voting system, that counted as a resounding victory for Bliar.

    51% voting against Europe in France was a crushing defeat, 64% voting against Blair a resounding victory. Go figure.

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