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New Internal Cavity X-ray Technology for Airports
Thanks to a new type of X-ray scanner unveiled in Australia, annoyed TSA agents won't have to send you to a hospital for a body cavity scan, they can do it in-house. Officials say that more than 4,600 man-hours were wasted last year in hospitals waiting for scans. From the article: "Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor said the scanners would also help innocent travelers. 'The option of an internal body scan will more quickly exonerate the innocent and ensure a minimum of delay for legitimate travelers,' Mr O'Connor said."
If the TSA employed more attractive people they wouldn't have to send us away to hospitals for body cavity reports.
Innocent until proven guilty not prove that you are innocent?
Why should they need to be exonerated? Why should they have to suffer through a high intensity blast of x-ray just to prove that they aren't terrorists?
Why aren't the terrorists exploiting this hole RIGHT NOW and KILLING MILLIONS and INFLICTING TERROR?
Maybe it's because the threat is overblown and someone is sucking your cock in exchange for your pushing these useless, unneeded machines. Or maybe you're like Chertoff, destined to profit handsomely by pushing your employer (and other governments) to buy equipment from a company you own.
Has there been an incident where a terrorist has hidden a bomb in his small intestine? Is it really a viable business strategy to hide drugs within your body in order to get them crossed the border. I cannot believe that there is enough free space in a persons body to hide a profitable amount of drugs.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Isaac Asimov
I'd rather have a Dr or Nurse oversee my doses of radiation then an undertrained cop school dropout.
i bet these stupid invasive technologies would magically stopped being pushed if the executive salaries at these companies were capped at 10x the lowest paid employee and they had to be non-profits.
> He said the new X-rays would be used only if suspects agreed to undergo scans.
How long will that last for?
In the UK, airport body scanners were "optional" when introduced - it was obscene how quickly they became mandatory. The word "big fat lie" came to mind.
More to the point, why are drugs banned? if I want to take drugs and someone wants to sell them to me, what's wrong with that?
Why do we have a whole bunch of people taking money from us without our consent, deciding what we should or should not do, and then enforcing those rules upon us?
From TFA: "Mr O'Connor said people carrying drugs inside their bodies could die if bags split or leak, so it was important to check as soon as possible." So my rights are being violated because some felon might kill themselves with their stupidity? Makes sense. I'll bend over now.
Now strip naked and get on the probulator.
Reading your mind knowing your going to commit a crime before it happens.
Complete with body cavity pat down?
I bet Ms. Janet Napolitano is wet just hearing about this*.
I'm disappointed that this article is not from the Onion. Can no one realize that 9/11 was just a fluke and the likelihood of it happening again that way is astronomical (I know this is in Australia but I can almost guarantee that all heightened security is a direct result of 9/11, the British train bomb, and other random events)? Let's get rid of the security theater we have in place now and just live because life is pretty much bad enough as it is without having to invent reasons to make it even more miserable.
I'd rather die on a hijacked plane than have to undergo full body cavity searches - at least my wife will be richer that way.
*No need to thank me for that visual.
"This food is problematic."
"...annoyed TSA agents won't have to send you to a hospital for a body cavity scan", that's the ticket! conflate national health together with airport security. Prostate checks and weapons checks go hand in glove (and upwards where the sun don't shine). Health, safety, and a full pelvic exam, all at one stop. "uhm, no box cutter up here, but you might want to have this polyp removed at gate N17"
"The option of an internal body scan will more quickly exonerate the innocent and ensure a minimum of delay for legitimate travellers," Mr O'Connor said.
news.com.au is the Australian counterpart of The Onion, I hope. Right?
I am not a crackpot.
Police checkpoints, wire tapping, spying on civilians from multiple directions, "emergency" powers designed to circumvent the concept (which of course are never repealed)... the guarantee of innocent until proven guilty has been eliminated in all but lip service. It's really no surprise; every government must do this at some point or their business stops expanding (in both power and revenue).
The cold hard truth is that big government NEEDS a society full of "criminals", and if nature doesn't supply it, they will fabricate it through the coercive power of government.
Trust the government to find a multi-million dollar replacement option for the 35 cents latex glove.
And soon when America imports these machines, the DHS will release a statement claiming that ionizing radiation is "completely harmless". The fun part is that the security officer in the picture is not using any sort of protective gear, so when she's dying of leukemia like so many radiologists have done, she can take comfort in that statement. Not only that, but it raises the following ethical questions: 1) Since when have security personnel been allowed to perform invasive medical procedures and 2) What happens when an obvious medical condition is clearly visible on one of these scans and ignored by unqualified security staff, resulting in a needless and preventable death - if only qualified personnel had seen it? But hey, the Nintendo generation will do whatever you tell them. No one cares anymore.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Will the people operating these scanners be required to be accredited by the ARRT as is the norm in hospitals?
Furries make the internet go.
We can't count on actual medical personnel to be trained properly with regard to x-ray exposure levels...
As Technology Surges, Radiation Safeguards Lag
After Stroke Scans, Patients Face Serious Health Risks
A Pinpoint Beam Strays Invisibly, Harming Instead of Healing
Radiation Offers New Cures, and Ways to Do Harm
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
"Non-profit" doesn't preclude extravagant pay or egotistical motivations. Janitorial services and Production can be contracted out, so the "lowest paid employee" could be an engineer making $100K.
The real solution is for The People to quit being terrified of boogeymen and start to use their brains. (A guy can dream, can't he?)
ensure a minimum of delay for legitimate travelers
You mean they're gonna make sure that the minimum delay is not undercut?
The whole economy would magically stopped being pushed if the executive salaries at these companies were capped at 10x the lowest paid employee and they had to be non-profits.
Instead of multi-national corporations, it will be all forced-labor camps. You can still send some million people to work there, though.
When someone uses the phrase "exonerate the innocent", it just says that air travelers are presumed to be guilty of terrorist activities and have to prove themselves innocent. Not exactly an American ideal, but American ideals are all too readily sacrificed on the altar of security theater.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
So, 4,600 hours at say $30/hr = $138k. What do you want to guess *each* of these devices cost? Plus, since the scan is optional, who is dumb enough to agree to a scan if they are in fact hiding drugs in their ass?
I'm just wondering, why does the TSA officer wear rubber gloves. Isn't this supposed to be X-ray?
It's become the norm for people to be treated like criminals. If you think this is so that we can be safer, think again.
Totally. If it wasn't for the heroic TSA terrorists would blow up American planes every day. These guys do an even more important job than the Marines, we need to give them the best equipment on the market.
Their job is also way more stressful than Iraq. At least over there our troops only have to worry about explosions when they drive past a car or large obstacle. In airports, every passenger is a potential WALKING IED. And these guys just sit there while millions of passengers walk by them every day!!!
I think people who fly should be escorted everywhere they go, even at home, by a police officer 24 hours before they go to the airport. It would make it harder for them to bring bombs on a plane then. This would relieve some stress from the TSA guys.
In the US, they used to take X-rays of people's feet at shoe stores until they figured out that all of those unnecessary x-rays were a bad idea.
http://www.museumofquackery.com/devices/shoexray.htm
So what makes Australia think that subjecting innocent people to X-rays that have no medical basis is a good idea? What happens to the poor schmucks to get picked frequently for these types of searches?
Of course this is necessary, hospital examinations are expensive and you just know there are freeloaders who purchase cheap tickets and act all suspicious in order to qualify for the free hospital exam paid for by Uncle Sam. Now if the high-school drop out that is running the "scanner" sees a mass, he won't know that it's a tumor and the freeloader doesn't get something for nothing.
Thanks to a new type of X-ray scanner unveiled in Australia, annoyed TSA agents won't have to send you to a hospital for a body cavity scan, they can do it in-house.
TFA is written in Australia and is about Australia. The Transportation Security Administration is a division of the USA government. (Or did we annex Australia and not tell anyone?)
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." -- George Orwell
Internal Cavity Search? Sounds like a CT scan. I do not want that can kind of radiation dose unless it's prescribed by a doctor. Farther more, it better be free, and the scan better be put into my medical records for base line purposes.
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If it didn't involve a trip to the hospital you can bet it will be employed much more often. In the past I'm sure there were times the suspicion wasn't great enough for the hassle of transporting to the hospital. Now that it's easier the # of scans will go way up.
Would the people operating be trained medical professionals?
TFA mentions destruction of the results. Heck, if I just had my lifetime limit of full body scans reduced by 1 I'd demand a copy. Why should I have to endure, and pay for, another one after this at a visit to the doctor. Like having access to your medical records or FBI file, I'd want a copy of every intrusive scan they did of my body, on the spot. They're free to discard their copy, but I want mine.
"Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor said the scanners would also help innocent travelers"
We all know that after 9/11, there's no such thing as innocent travelers.
The terrorists won, common sense and freedom were lost.
Are TSA agents schooled on the ALARA principle / rad doses, et al?
Even my dentist steps into the other room when the x-ray machine is running.
Two Questions:
1. What average doses of radiation are the passengers who use these machines receiving?
2. Do TSA agents get checked for the amount of radiation they're being exposed to? If so, how often?
Now instead of gratuitous trips through security at the local airport I'll have to pay a hooker to do it.
WTF is going on - really?
"Drug couriers captured by Australian authorities at airports last year were carrying a total of 27kg of drugs."
Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor, you sir are an ASSHOLE.
Hope is the currency of fools
I already don't fly because of the TSA. I will not condone their behavior by complying like a sheep. They are a profoundly un-American entity, and must be de-funded and dismantled with prejudice immediately. Anyone who has chosen to work for them has self-selected for a one-way ticket to North Korea where they can enjoy the totalitarian paradise they're so strenuously trying to impose on the rest of us. They are not Americans who choose to do this; they are not my countrymen.
TSA delenda est.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
That's not new. That's a standard AS&E Z-backscatter scanner. The first one was installed in the US at Sky Harbor Airport, Pheonix, AZ in 2007. As of 2010, there are about 68 US airport installations.
They're very expensive, bulky machines. AS&E just got a phase II R&D contract from Homeland Security to develop a smaller, more portable unit. That's hard, though. The technology requires that the detector be 90 degrees from the emitter, with respect to the target, so it sees the backscatter. That geometry is why the machines are so large.
It was not a fluke. It was so well planned that it doesn't ever need to happen again. The terrorists did the work once, and then left to the USA (and other) government to continue their work for them. Now, they can just sit back, relax and enjoy their ... hummm ... what do terrorist drink ?
morcego
The anus has been used throughout history to smuggle things, this shouldn't be news to anyone who spend a second in the real world. Are you THAT out of touch with reality you never heard of drug mules swallowing rubber balls filled with drugs or the reason in jail they get you to spread them?
If this is the level of your average tin-hatter it explains a lot. You should really get out some day, talk to another human being. Learn something about the big scary world.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
...is now at airports. OK. Cool.
Can those who enjoy a good fisting still request to be probed the old fashioned way???
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Is this talking about the TSA in the US? Or is there a TSA in the AU?
CT scanners are slow. I would guess this is a plain old x-ray machine with a digital sensor and a new idiot-proof interface. Just insert suspect and press button. It might even do some colorisation to try to make things with non-fleshy absorbtion profiles stand out more. Basically just like one of those luggage scanners, except with a more carefully limited dose.
A terrorist could get up in the middle of a flight, walk over to a window, take his pants down, stick his ass up on the window, and...
There you'd be thinking he was only mooning that... thing... on the wing... outside... when he would detonate.
And just imagine if he was ALREADY sitting next to a window. Cause, that is what they do. They sit next to a window waiting to blow themselves up.
Those shouldn't be called window seats at all but "terrorist seats".
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
That is all.
I still cannot find the droids I am looking for...
The first one was installed in the US at Sky Harbor Airport, Pheonix, AZ in 2007.
I'm not sure where it was installed at because I've flown many times out of Phoenix since I moved here and didn't see ANY kind of scanner until the last time, in December 2010.
As someone who has to fly in a few weeks, let me say this now:
FUCK YOU, AIRPORT SECURITY PEOPLE
Your job is pointless, you are mentally deficient, and I hate you.
Instead of feeling my cock, suck it instead.
TFA mentions how they "understood privacy concerns in relation to internal X-ray use". FUCK THAT!
It's not a privacy issue. It's a fucking health concern.
A fucking dentist covers you up in lead before he takes an X-ray of your teeth, and these morons want to let someone with a questionable understanding of buttons do X-rays of your gut?
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
..(A guy can dream, can't he?)
wrong brain
'...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'
I know this is about Australia but it reminds me of what's going on in the USA. Considering the insanity the TSA has unleashed one might conclude that they have concluded that the only way to keep people safe from something happening on a plane is for them to be dissuaded against flying. If people don't fly then they don't have to worry about a terrorist hi-jacking their plane. Of course, it hurts an entire industry but people are safe. It's not like someone can destroy a building by driving a truck full of explosives into it. Oh wait, they tried that with the WTC and if memory serves, it was the placement of the truck that was off. Otherwise we might have x-ray scanners at toll booths instead of airports.
They do it so that people like you who 'shouldn't ever have to go through it' can find out what the rest of us are going through such that you can vote accordingly next election when you realize your politicians aren't representing you. Or any of the rest of us, for that matter.
Alien larva living in my abdomen?
Kree, Joffa!
Seriously, just don't fly!
I killed da wabbit -Elmer Fudd
Here lies the presumption of innocence. 1793 - 2011. R.I.P.
Laws affecting technology will always be bad until enough techies become lawyers.
Are these scans "random", or is there some form of probable cause req.?
You know, if a terrorist wanted to do damage, instead of getting on a plane, they could blow shit up ON THE GROUND! Like, say, in an airport full of people stuck waiting 5 hours to get on a fucking plane. There are more people in a public airport than in any single plane. Malls are even worse. Frankly, if someone wanted to "send a message" to the U.S., just do it on Black Friday amid the roving flash mobs of consumer whores.
The world saw more plane hijackings in the 80's than in the 2000's. I'm way more worried about getting robbed and stabbed by some random meth-head in my apartment building, than getting blown up on a plane. At least meth heads can't afford airfare.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
So, if you are going to force me to have the risk associated with radiation exposure of an X-ray, can I get the images?
Well in Canada, I can say that we've had at least 3 to 4 dozen failed terrorist attempts since the Air India bombing. Yet we're able to get along pretty well without the government being hyper-invasive over everything(laws are generally modified to fit the times/issues--aka modifying the wiretap act to include electronic information and so on). Despite all the whining over the terrorism act, it's done it's job without a serious problem to the vast majority of Canucks.
Really I think it's because the government took a balanced approach to it. I mean we had the FLQ(ended with martial law, war measures act in place for a bit, and other stuff), we've had other idiots, and domestic terrorism isn't common but it's not unheard of(see idiots trying to blow sour gas lines out west, or the various flavors of muslims who've tried the kill parliment(at both levels), along with other crap). And yet I can still travel here without being body probed.
I'm honestly surprised there hasn't been a full scale revolt in the US over this stuff.
Om, nomnomnom...
Why would any sane company owner agree sell anything at all to TSA if your dream came true? They wouldn't be able to buy even toilet paper.
The same for any other industry - either the companies would find a way to cheat it, or they would fire all employees, sell all assets and give the money back to creators/investors/owners of the company, as in that case it would be a better choice for the owners to just keep that money in the bank rather than make some goods or services with that.
If it is now easier and quicker to do an internal cavity x-ray, I'm afraid that there will be many more internal cavity x-rays.
Cavity - Internal - Airport...
A three word combination that will make any bloke nervous...
But I suppose some people would welcome this new technology:
"In September 2000, a NZ radio DJ was convicted and fined $1100 after impersonating a detective from Interpol. He called Los Angeles police and claimed his three co-workers were trying to enter the United States with kiwi eggs hidden in their "rear cavities". The trio were subsequently held for two hours at LA Airport, questioned and searched."
His colleagues didn't think it was funny btw.
and ensure a minimum of delay for legitimate travelers
You know what ensures even less delay?
Not scanning them.
Go to the airport. You'll get an X-ray, a breast exam, and if you mention Al Qu'eda you get a free colonoscopy!
My God, it's Full of Source!
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I propose that all those lawmakers who are subjecting travellers/population-at-large to these devices are forced to undergo one thousand (1,000) scans in these devices, operated by the least trained operator, prior to the device going into operational circulation.
This applies to each type of device and each revision/modification made to them.
How Long Till Colonoscopy Scanners Roll Out States Side?
PLACE BETS NOW!
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Lets see now, that's 4600 hours spent on 200 scans or about 23 hours per X-ray. I know that since there's not a medical problem they'll go to the back of the line, but really, 23 hours.
Meanwhile, only 1 out of 4 x-rayed was actually packing drugs. The total drugs found was 27 Kg,. They're talking about spending a lot of money and unnecessarily irradiating a lot of people just for 27 Kg of drugs in a year. I'd guess more than that goes up people's noses daily.
I'm not sure if I'm happy to see evidence that the U.S. hasn't cornered the market on stupid over-reactions or sad to see further proof that it's pervasive and inescapable.
I can't wait for the leaked X-ray pr0n pics.
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Heathen blood, I think. Dunno, lemme turn on Fox...
except with a more carefully limited dose.
Maybe.
Is 1563649 a prime number?
Now, they can just sit back, relax and enjoy their ... hummm ... what do terrorist drink ?
A tall glass of sweet irony on a hot desert afternoon.
Most of the comments I've seen here are complete bullshit!
This has nothing to do with terrorism, it's all about looking for drugs in people who are already suspected of carrying drugs internally, not as a general screening device. It says in TFA that the existing scheme of sending them off to hospital had found 50 people carrying drugs out of 200 tested, which isn't a bad strike rate. BTW, most of the drugs are swallowed, not carried rectally or vaginally.
This may be new for Australia but they've been using it in Britain for years. The X-rays are voluntary (in the UK), but if you don't agree you go into a cell until you have passed two complete bowel movements, so most people will prefer the scan.
Don't you mean gate NC-17?
These invasive technologies would stop tomorrow if all US senators and representatives were subject to them when they traveled.
They drink your sweet sweet freedom tears.
Yeah, it's internal. First Amendment. Boycott airlines.
it's probably better if you don't know
What about the passanger? What if I fly every week? I will get quite a dose.
I bet Ms. Janet Napolitano is wet just hearing about this*.
I doubt it. Remember, we're talking about the same person who refused to go through the body scanners so we wouldn't see her giant cock.
The goal of scanners,groping is to stop you from flying and be subservient to the cult governments/globalists. We know who did 911. Wake up!!!!
The main concern is that you're fellow citizens, friends, neighbors ie: cops agree to do this to you and I. What's wrong with them?
this one goes in your mouth, and this one goes in you butt... No, wait! *This* one goes in your ear, and *this* one goes in your mouth, and *this* one goes in your butt...
This is so incredibly absurd I actually RTFA just to see if it was an Onion piece. As it turns out: it isn't.
I wish it were, though...
And after all these ways of determining if someone is carrying a pen knife, there is still nothing preventing someone from using a baby as a weapon. Not to smuggle a weapon. The baby is the weapon itself. You've got sonic attacks, biological attacks, those sharp baby fingernails... Heck, if the hijacker didn't care about the baby, he could use it as a blunt object. Good thing security folk are thinking up new ways to irradiate our gonads, because that means less babies to threaten air travel.
Yet more X-Ray radiation! Woohooo!
/sarcasm
I'll take the pat-down and trip to the clinic, i'm not going to let any TSA goon nuke me.
I'm willing to sacrifice my liberty for some security
Then you deserve neither and will most assuredly lose both (that is, if things keep going the way they are going).
The terrorists wanted to destroy your way of life - to take away your freedoms, to make you live your lives in fear.
You have achieved their aims for them.
Why not just put some chiseled Grizzly Adams looking mother fucker on every flight with a Remington 870. There's your deterrent, hell i bet wed save money in salary's and benefits over the costs to buy these damn things.
Won't stop narco submarines and ground border smuggling. Drug smuggling is harder to stop than x ray scanning everywhere.
And chances they will catch a terrorist are rather small anyway (if the don't have a tip).
This entirely about Australian airport authorities and the article does not mention the TSA. This whole setup is designed to expedite searching suspected drug mules and, in fairness, could get some of them to a hospital before drugs they've swallowed kill them.
The real story here is that we wouldn't be hearing about this if it weren't for the war on drugs.
CT scanners are slow. I would guess this is a plain old x-ray machine with a digital sensor and a new idiot-proof interface. Just insert suspect and press button. It might even do some colorisation to try to make things with non-fleshy absorbtion profiles stand out more. Basically just like one of those luggage scanners, except with a more carefully limited dose.
Actually, CT scanners aren't all that slow anymore. Back when the technology was first developed, it sure was. A modern CT scanner can complete a diagnostic on a major organ in a matter of a second or so.
The article references cavity scans for drug interdiction, which John Pistole swears on a stack of Bibles is NOT under the purview of the TSA. So, here's the TSA's logic.
"We're afraid he's shoved a couple kilograms of C4 up his butt. Therefore, we're going to send him to a busy hospital in the middle of town filled with vulnerable people who can't be moved. That way, when the terrorist blows, not only does he get a body count comparable to the airplane he wanted to take down, he also disables the medical infrastructure that could have helped cope with the victims of the blast."
It's like the guys running the show here thought "The Long Kiss Goodnight" was a how-to documentary. "We're going to maximize and facilitate terrorism to scare funding out of Congress..."
I never thought I'd live to see the day that people in the Middle East were fighting for their freedom while Americans were flushing theirs.
He put his boots up on the table and made a face. "The sig," he smirked. "You can waste your life in search of the sig."
Out-of-control TSA, yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our right:
They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
Impeach Obama and sweep out the Congress, except Ron Paul.
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And I'm fine with the maximum executive salary being $1,000,000.
enjoy their ... hummm ... what do terrorist drink ?
milkshakes
Where can I buy these products chances are you already bought them long ago when YOU weren't paying ATTENTION
Majorly unclear on the concept: "the innocent" DO NOT NEED TO BE EXONERATED! They are, after all, *innocent*.
I hate what's happening to our country. Do the Egyptian/Tunisian/Libyan rebels run mentoring courses?
ha ha ha !!! yes id prefer a good fisting.... with a spiked glove..... a perforated bowel... rather than cancer ! ha ha
Now they can unconscionably drastically increase your radiation exposure without any valid medical reasons.
It was not a fluke. It was so well planned that it doesn't ever need to happen again. The USA (and other) governments did the work once, and then left to the terrorists to continue their work for them. Now, they can just sit back, relax and enjoy whatever drink/drug they choose
in Canada, I can say that we've had at least 3 to 4 dozen failed terrorist attempts since the Air India bombing
[citation needed]
Transportation was a punishment reserved for lesser crimes. For the most part people that the British transported to it's colonies were petty thieves, people in debt (punishment for being unable to repay debt was imprisonment (see: debt prisons) and transportation) and for many, just being Irish. Simply displaying an Irish flag was considered sedition in the 1700 and 1800's thus transportation was considered an appropriate punishment (real traitors had their balls tied between the hammer and the bell in Big Ben, at a quarter past the hour so they had to wait 45 minutes).
Transportation was seen by the British parliament (as the monarchy had given up absolute rule in the late 1600's, 1666 I think) as a solution to Britain growing population problem as well as a method of getting rid of troublesome people.
The really dangerous criminals, the murderers and rapists were kept in England, in English prisons. The reason for this was simple, there were no real prisons in the colonies and once a prisoner had completed their sentence the colonial government gave the prisoner a parcel of land and they were permitted to work it, transportation was a one way trip.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Metamaterials.
It would be helpful if the police were required to divulge exculpatory evidence discovered during questioning. They aren't.
I am not a lawyer, but this guy is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
> The real solution The People to quit being terrified of boogeymen and start to use their brains.
Right, after 50,000 years of existence of homo sapiens, about time finally.
Will everyone please stop swimming against the tide and just go with this?!!! Our dear President McCarthy is having a troublesome enough time of things.... Look, we managed to get rid of those pesky Commie Russians - and now it's the Osama Muslims. After that brace yourselves 'cause we're goin' after the Canadians - not for their ideological beliefs mind you - just for their resources. After all they got oil and water. Aw shit - sometimes I feel like were the bullies in the school yard. And what YOU gonna do about it!??? God Bless the USA. (And fuck everyone else....)
Uh they have RapiScan and enhanced pat-downs in Canada too. Just they ask you to go to a curtained off area of the airport to do it. Which to me seems even creepier. "Please step behind this curtain so I can see you naked or feel up your junk". The worst part is that none of the opposition parties have made any noise about this whatsoever.
It was CSIS that told the Americans that Maher Arar was a terrorist which resulted in him being tortured. And speaking of CSIS, they regularly tap people's phones without warrants. The entire point of CSIS is to spy on Canadians.
At least American citizens have some sort of protections from the likes of the CIA. Canadian citizens have no such protections and CSIS will gladly hand you over to them so you can be tortured.
Don't kid yourself, the Canadian government does whatever the US wants them to do. Read the wikileaks about Canada. Our government is a bunch of spineless cowards when dealing with the US.
Besides being bemused about the phrase that the prospective passenger must prove their innocence (since when did we adopt the Code Napoleon approach?) there is the minor issue of having security folk operate the xrays. Heck, there have been items in the news about medical scanning being done improperly, even by 'trained' staff -- says that in the 50 years or so we have been blasting folk with ionizing radiation even the pros can screw it up. So to have this stuff operated by the typical knuckle-dragging TSA crew should be terrifying. I am wondering when the first lawsuit gets filed for excessive irradiation? Scares me!
Where am I supposed to stash my extra laptop batteries now???