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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. Re:If bombs are illegal... by ozmanjusri · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ok, a terrorist is on a tube train, and pulls out a bomb.

    "Ah ha", thinks the wily passenger, "thank God bombs are now legal for everyone!" The passenger then pulls out their own bomb and detonates it, leading to mass loss of life, anyway.

    You're missing the point of legalising bombs. With more than seven million people in London and thousands of buses and trains, the probability of being in the vicinity of a bomb is already very small. If you bring your own bomb onto the bus or train, the probability that there would be two bombs on the same vehicle are so vanishingly small as to be insignificant.

    If everybody brought their own explosive devices, there would be almost zero probability of terrorist bombs being in the same area. Everybody would be much safer as a result.

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  2. Yup, I'm a racist fascist hyena and proud of it by ccmay · · Score: 0, Troll
    Words like "racist" and "fascist" have lost all their sting, having been applied to everyone to the right of Tony Benn for the past generation. Answer my arguments instead of calling me names.

    Look Ma! I'm co-opting the pejorative!

    -ccm

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  3. Re:Anti-terrorist recipe: by DonnieD701 · · Score: 0, Troll

    What a lovely utopian society you live in! The islamic fundamentalist groups want one thing and one thing only. To convert us to fundamental Islam, or to kill us if we don't convert (us = "the whole of the free western world"). It doesn't matter who invades who, it's just the way it is. It's part of their religion. They could blow the US to smithereenies, and that wouldn't stop them. Not until the ENTIRE WORLD worships Allah.

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  4. Re:Appeasers go to hell by ccmay · · Score: 0, Troll
    Maybe Lincoln should have appeased the Confederates then, eh? Who cares if people are held in chattel slavery, as long as we can sit down and talk with the slave holders.

    And Neville Chamberlain, now there was a guy who knew the power of negotiations...

    You people never learn. Some people just need killing, and it is so much better and more humane for the world in the long run if we just hold our noses and do it.

    -ccm

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  5. Re:The perception of security by AyeRoxor! · · Score: 0, Troll

    Blow up a bus... increase aid to starving countries, shoot down a plane, build a dozen schools or a community center in a struggling nation. Oh, and I'd still have my gov'ts police and intelligence seek out and punish those who took the action.

    So not only show them that terrorism will mollify us, but show them that we will actively reward the terrorism.

    "Hey, Habib. Our children need more schools. Go blow up some of their kids."

  6. That's so stupid I want to bomb your country. by tjstork · · Score: 0, Troll

    Allah I says I most blow myself up in an ocean of morons.

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