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Full-Body Scanners Deployed In Street-Roving Vans
pickens writes "Forbes reports that the same technology used at airport check points, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on US streets where law enforcement agencies have deployed the vans to search for vehicle-based bombs. 'It's no surprise that governments and vendors are very enthusiastic about [the vans],' says Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. 'But from a privacy perspective, it's one of the most intrusive technologies conceivable.' Rotenberg adds that the scans, like those in the airport, potentially violate the fourth amendment. 'Without a warrant, the government doesn't have a right to peer beneath your clothes without probable cause,' Rotenberg says. 'If the scans can only be used in exceptional cases in airports, the idea that they can be used routinely on city streets is a very hard argument to make.'"
I don't like the tone of my voice. Please mod me down.
The fact that some things -are- possible doesn't mean that they are likely, or even possible. .
Yeah right. Tell that to the victims of the WTC. What was the reasoning for the collapse of WTC building #7? Besides being the control point for the demolition and the IRS repository of the Enron evidence.
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
You're a liar and an imbecile. Ron Paul never said a thing in favor of slavery, or in favor of making slavery a state's rights issue.
And to suggest that Libertarian is the party of the rich... what a fucking moron you are.
Mod this dude right. I don't agree with a lot RP says or believes, but he stands where he stands, and he stands there pretty fucking solid. He doesn't curry favor from corporations, constituents,other politicians or anyone in fact. And his area of Texas loves him. When the repubs jury rigged texas, they ripped his area to shreds, IIRC, and he still got re-elected in a landslide. RP does have backbone and a set of balls. I voted for him, as I wasn't voting for a nigger, and damn sure wasn't voting for a moron who chose palin as being one heartbeat away from the presidency.