A friend of a certain age refuses to run the TSA’s gauntlet of sexual assault and voyeurism just so the airlines can continue the abuse at 30,000 feet. She writes, “…when I was a kid every shoe store had an X-ray machine for the feet – to check if the kid’s shoes really fit right. I would stand on the machine and marvel at the weird greenish bones in my feet, even when it was my mom buying shoes for herself and not me. Then the machines disappeared. Someone decided radiation was bad. Now the official word is that nakedizing X-ray machines are totally harmless. Sorry guys – you can’t have it both ways!!!”
Of course, the TSA will smile patronizingly because it phased out the “nakedizing X-ray machines” five years ago; indeed, this $14-million boondoggle is consuming even more of your taxes in rental to warehouses. But prior to this shuffling of equipment, the TSA claimed vehemently and repeatedly that its “backscatter X-ray” gizmos were entirely safe–even for expectant mothers.
Nor are the millimeter-wave porno-scanners that have replaced backscatter X-ray any less dangerous, whatever the pathological liars at the TSA claim.
I’ve said it many times, but it bears repeating: don’t fly. No matter what. You are risking your life, your freedom, and your health—not to mention the pass you’re giving Leviathan for obliterating the Fourth Amendment.
9:25 am on June 29, 2017
