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US Congress Tries To Cut Body Scanner Funding
OverTheGeicoE writes "The Electronic Privacy Information Center reports that the US House of Representatives is trying to cut funding for new airport body scanners from next year's budget. This would prevent the TSA from installing 275 new scanners in airports in FY 2012, at a cost of $76 million."
Actually we can't do behavioral profiling because idiots like you don't understand that it's not the same thing as racial profiling.
Racial profiling: "That guy is black but he's driving an expensive car. He probably stole the car."
Behavioral profiling: "That guy is driving conspicuously slow and it's 2:00am on a Saturday night, there's a good chance he's drunk."
The beginning? This is not even the end. The moment Bin Laden was killed, it was told that retaliations were to be expected and things will get worse.
Remember: this is not about fighting some enemy, this is about controlling you. If this "enemy" is gone, another will be invented.
Once communism was the worst that could happen. The war on that was won and did it bring peace? Not, just the next "enemy".
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
There was 1 for-profit company, who just so happened to have financial ties to then-DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, who shoved the idea down the TSA's throat. These guys aren't even trying to hide the corruption anymore.
I am officially gone from
People voted for her in Alaska because she was the outsider, gave a huge chunk of money to the people of Alaska, raised taxes on oil companies and fought the lobbyists.
Since she got on the national stage she's way different.