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US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the look-at-my-blurry-junk dept.

PatPending writes "A Gizmodo investigation has revealed 100 of the photographs saved by the Gen 2 millimeter-wave scanner from Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc., obtained by a FOIA request after it was recently revealed that US Marshals operating the machine in the Orlando, Florida courthouse had improperly — perhaps illegally — saved [35,000] images [low resolution] of the scans of public servants and private citizens."

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  1. Good. Hope this keeps up by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The more these assholes abuse their power, the less willing the public will be to entrust power to them.

    Oh god, who am I kidding?..

    1. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up by Stargoat · · Score: 5, Insightful

      In order to be a juror at a building, I was required to remove my belt and shoes.

      The Republic was somehow able to survive through 2 World Wars, a Civil War, and multiple British invasions (see what I did there?) without disrobing jurors. There is no greater threat now than has existed in the past. There is only a populace that is more cowed and less willing to challenge an ever increasing authority.

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    2. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up by Speare · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I overheard it put this way: "If the government is going to keep groping our wives and daughters, somebody's going to go Braveheart on them." Oppressive behavior just creates terrorists, it doesn't find or defeat them.

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    3. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up by paeanblack · · Score: 5, Insightful

      President Merkin Muffley: General Turgidson, I find this very difficult to understand. I was under the impression that I was the only one in authority to order the use of nuclear weapons.

      General "Buck" Turgidson: That's right, sir, you are the only person authorized to do so. And although I, uh, hate to judge before all the facts are in, it's beginning to look like, uh, General Ripper exceeded his authority.

    4. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up by Shakrai · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I thought that too -- always knew that I would disagree with BHO on most domestic issues but I had anticipated that he would restore some respect for civil liberties into the Federal Government. Instead we've learned that the Democrats are just as happy as the GOP to embrace security theater.

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      We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
    5. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up by GungaDan · · Score: 5, Informative

      Is that all? Here ya go:

      http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/tsa-screener-terrorizes-3-year-old-girl

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    6. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up by Shakrai · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Actually it just requires that the state have a BIGGER gun and that some portion of the population is willing to go along with the state.

      The 2nd amendment doesn't work when the individual stands up to the Government, even when the Government is completely in the wrong (see Ruby Ridge). It only works when the Government commits acts that are so far over the line that a sizable portion of the population is willing to take up arms.

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      I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
      We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
    7. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up by Schadrach · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You make it sound like putting very good locks on the cockpit doors would have prevented the 9/11 attacks, but not funneled as much money to friends of politicians nor been as visible in a "see, we're making it better" sort of way. Maybe include an armed undercover LEO on every plane as an additional security measure -- undercover so that an attacker knows someone on the plane is armed, but has no way of knowing whom.

      Seriously, there are two things that allowed the 9/11 attacks to occur, and much like the "be handed the ball and stroll through the defensive line" football play (seriously, just search youtube for football play, it's probably still the first result) it will never work again. Those two things are:

      1. Access to the cockpit by the attackers. A securely locked cockpit resolves this issue entirely. Even better if it can only be locked or unlocked from the inside.

      2. Apathy by the passengers -- before this, being hijacked basically meant an unfortunate detour for you. Now that it's clear it can mean potential death, the passengers who wildly outnumber the terrorists can almost certainly stop him. Even if he's armed -- after all, resist and maybe die is a better bet than don't and certainly die.

  2. uhuh by jav1231 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And they'll get about as much of a punishment as Charles Rangel.

    Like maybe: "The officers involved have received reprimands that will go in their permanent record."

  3. Re:is this what you're worried about? by Tebriel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, it's the fact that the data isn't supposed to be stored. They're retaining the data illegally. That's what we're supposed to be even more worried about--the abuse of the system.

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  4. Scanning not confined to pad by beefnog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Did anybody else notice that in some of the images the people well behind the pad (but still in the image frame) are showing up as well? Just how much EM do these things ACTUALLY emit?

  5. Re:Opt for the frisking by coldfarnorth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ratchet things up a notch. Wear a kilt.

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  6. Security personel are always dicks by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is anyone really surprised? Have you ever met a mall security guard, bouncer, airport monkey who wasn't a complete power abusing ass? Face it people do give them grief and it can be a shitty job so the only people that are going to take it are the type who are looking to bully the public.

  7. Here is a fact to help you with your education: by GungaDan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bush's Fatherland Security czar, Michael Chertoff, profits from the sale of the nudie-scanners.

    http://gawker.com/5437499/why-is-michael-chertoff-so-excited-about-full+body-scanners

    http://www.nowpublic.com/world/full-body-scanner-lobby-michael-chertoff-rapiscan-2552674.html

    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2627190/posts

    http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/01/airport-scanner-scam

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  8. That's nothing by commodore64_love · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The TSA is now groping women's breasts and little kids genitals. (See the recent video of a girl crying, "Stop touching me!"

    And I just now heard an interview with an American is being punished $11,000 by the U.S.G. because he refused to be scanned, or groped by the TSA, so the guards told him, "You cannot fly." He then canceled his ticket, got a refund, left the airport, and was arrested for leaving the area.

    Apparently once you enter an air terminal, you no longer have any rights... except to submit to the US Gestapo and their warrantless/illegal searches.

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    "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  9. so my choice is by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1. radiation exposure and some mall cop staring at my dick. with pictures for permanent internet memories

    2. some mall cop groping my dick

    i choose 3: fuck flying. taking the airplane is a burdensome horrendous experience that just keeps getting worse and worse. it makes driving 20 hours seem more attractive than flying 4 hours

    "the terrorists have won" is a lame trite statement, but it's true. they've permanently altered our society to turn us into scared cattle and they've permanently made airplanes a hellish unattractive transportation method

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  10. Remember National Opt Out Day by Colonel+Korn · · Score: 5, Informative

    Next Wednesday: http://www.optoutday.com/

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