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."

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Uh

[jimmerz28]

If the TSA employed more attractive people they wouldn't have to send us away to hospitals for body cavity reports.

I thought it was...

[Itesh]

Innocent until proven guilty not prove that you are innocent?

Politicians are full of shit.

[Microlith]

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."

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.

No Way

[headhot]

I'd rather have a Dr or Nurse oversee my doses of radiation then an undertrained cop school dropout.

freedom

[Anonymous Coward]

> 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?

Just Like Futurama

[Sponge Bath]

Now strip naked and get on the probulator.

Health care crisis and terrorism in one fell grope

[smoothnorman]

"...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"

Not anymore

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Not anymore

[michelcolman]

Exactly. Most European countries provide a lot more freedom than the US. If we read here what some people are sued or arrested for in the States, we can't believe what we're hearing. Mothers arrested for breastfeeding their child (oh my God, think of the children!), laws against gays, agaist abortion, against euthanasia, against medical use of soft drugs, etc, etc, etc... Some states seem to apply a Christian version of the Sharia! No, the US may be a reasonably free country, but definitely not the freest on Earth. Not by a long shot.

Re:Not anymore

[PhilipTheHermit]

The US is no more homogeneous than Europe is. Just as you have fairly varied laws between, say, France and Turkey (which is part of Europe if not the EU), we have fairly varied laws as well.

It is unfair of you to cherry-pick the things that happen in our "crazy" states and pretend that they're representative of the United States.

Think of it this way.

The United States is like a family with fifty members.

You've got the bookish preppies (New England, New York, some states in the Northern Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest), their country cousins, (much of the Midwest and the SouthEast), and Uncle Hippy (California)... They're generally OK, you can have a normal conversation with them, and nothing weird will happen.

Then you've got the weird cousins everyone else tries to avoid (the dumber of the "Red" states, of which Texas is probably the worst). They pick on strangers, they get drunk and punch out environmentalists, and in general, embarrass the whole family.

You Europeans are like people living across the street, gossiping about us because we threw a barbecue and the whole weird family showed up. Forgotten are all the good things the family does, our literary works, our scientific discoveries, the two or three times we've called the police and stopped your house from getting burgled, and the fact that we're generally good neighbors. All you want to harp on is that Cousin Joe from Texas got drunk, stripped naked, climbed a telephone pole, and peed on a police officer. You think we're all terrible because of Cousin Joe. It lets you feel all SUPERIOR.

 

Thank you!

[denzacar]

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?