Inside TSA scanners: How terahertz waves tear apart human DNA

[cavanami]

Up to you...use at your own risk cuz the US gov will lie, lie, lie...

 

Inside TSA scanners: How terahertz waves tear apart human DNA

 

http://www.infowars.com/inside-tsa-scanners-how-terahertz-waves-tear-apart-human-dna/

 

While the application of scientific knowledge creates technology, sometimes the technology is later redefined by science. Such is the case with terahertz (THz) radiation, the energy waves that drive the technology of the TSA: back scatter airport scanners.

 

Emerging THz technological applications

 

THz waves are found between microwaves and infrared on the electromagnetic spectrum. This type of radiation was chosen for security devices because it can penetrate matter such as clothing, wood, paper and other porous material that’s non-conducting...

 

 

[Flashermac]

 

[color:blue]'Turban check' on Indian envoy at US airport sparks row[/color]

 

 

India's foreign ministry has expressed concern after another of its diplomats was reportedly subjected to a security search at a US airport.

 

It has emerged that India's UN envoy, Hardeep Puri, was reportedly asked to remove his turban at an airport in Houston, Texas, two weeks ago.

 

When the Sikh refused to do so, he was detained in a "holding room", say Indian media.

 

India's US ambassador Meera Shankar was groped at a US airport earlier this month.

 

Foreign Minister SM Krishna told the media in Delhi on Monday: 'We have taken it up with the US authorities and the matter [involving Mr Puri] is at that stage."

 

The BBC's Jyotsna Singh in Delhi says Sikh men are expected to keep all hair intact and their heads covered in public.

 

The turban symbolises self-respect, honour, and piety. Touching of the head dress in public is not allowed.

 

Normally the turban is only removed in the most intimate of circumstances, when washing the face or hair.

 

There was uproar in India after Ms Shankar was subjected to a hands-on search at an airport in Mississippi, even after her diplomatic status had been revealed.

 

The ambassador had been picked out of a security line at Jackson-Evers International on 4 December simply because she was wearing a sari, it was claimed.

 

[color:red]US Homeland Security Obergruppenführer Janet Napolitano said at the time the search had been "appropriate".[/color]

 

But US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed concern about the incident after India's external affairs ministry called it unacceptable.

 

[color:red]Some Indian opposition politicians asked the government to subject the US envoy to security searches on flights.[/color]

 

Ex-president frisked

 

Last year, Continental Airlines apologised to former Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam for searching him before he boarded a flight to the US.

 

Indians were outraged after it emerged that Mr Kalam had been frisked and made to remove his shoes at Delhi airport in April.

 

Protocol is meant to exempt former presidents and other dignitaries from such humiliating measures as are meted out to ordinary peasants.

 

 

 

Where does TSA find these fucking idiots???

 

 

 

[The_Munchmaster]

...Normally the turban is only removed in the most intimate of circumstances, when washing the face or hair...

 

Or when munching pussy.

[acockasian]

Do you want the terrorists to win?

 

The woman should be happy she just got what she got...cavity searches will be next.

[Bangkoktraveler]

Do you want the terrorists to win?

 

The woman should be happy she just got what she got...cavity searches will be next.

 

 

Are you saying the TSA agents are terrorist?

[acockasian]

Not at all. I am saying that diplomatic immunity should be respected, as it is in every single country in the world except, by TSA employees.

 

This whole thing is theater and about government control. If you even question that then the terrorists have won.

 

If you research these scanners you'll see they don't even detect the explosives that have been used on airplanes.

[Old Hippie]

"...before he boarded a flight to the US..."

 

Wouldn't that suggest the search happened outside the USA?

[Bangkoktraveler]

Not at all. I am saying that diplomatic immunity should be respected, as it is in every single country in the world except, by TSA employees.

 

This whole thing is theater and about government control. If you even question that then the terrorists have won.

 

If you research these scanners you'll see they don't even detect the explosives that have been used on airplanes.

 

 

 

TSA had Ted Kennedey on the no-fly list. Makes you wonder who the terrorist are?"

[TroyinEwa/Perv]

Not at all. I am saying that diplomatic immunity should be respected' date=' as it is in every single country in the world except, by TSA employees.

 

This whole thing is theater and about government control. If you even question that then the terrorists have won.

 

If you research these scanners you'll see they don't even detect the explosives that have been used on airplanes. [/quote']

 

 

 

TSA had Ted Kennedey on the no-fly list. Makes you wonder who the terrorist are?"

 

Maybe he was on the list cuz his name was spelled wrong.

[Flashermac]

Teddy didn't blow people up. He drowned 'em.

 

Meanwhile, in the news ...

 

 

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Pat-downs anger RDU fliers

 

 

 

Local airport and federal security officials are fielding protests from Triangle travelers who say they have been traumatized by officers administering intimate pat-downs at security checkpoints.

 

"My wife in tears told the screener and the witness she would not let them abuse her," Willie Johnson of Raleigh said in a complaint filed Nov. 15 on the Raleigh-Durham International Airport website. "No citizen should be subjected to humiliation, stress and fear just to fly."

 

Two dozen travelers have contacted RDU to register objections in the six weeks since the Transportation Security Administration began a new, more invasive style of pat-downs. TSA officials say they have received about 2,000 complaints nationwide.

 

[color:red]Several RDU passengers described indignities suffered at the hands of grim-faced officers, and others said they would never fly out of RDU until the security practices are changed.[/color]

 

[color:red]Breasts, buttocks and genitals get hands-on treatment when transportation security officers rub airline passengers through their clothing. The agents sometimes slip gloved fingers inside the edges of underwear, to touch bare skin.[/color]

 

They're feeling around for plastic explosives that might elude discovery by metal detectors and other screening, TSA says.

 

"We are sensitive to the concerns of all passengers and work to balance those concerns with the very real threat that our adversaries will attempt to use explosives to carry out attacks on planes," said Jonathan Allen, a TSA spokesman.

 

[color:red]Survivors of sexual assault feel especially vulnerable during the new security screening, advocates and local travelers say. Rape crisis counselors say the pat-downs trigger post-traumatic stress reactions - making survivors of rape and abuse feel like victims all over again.[/color]

 

"When somebody is a victim of sexual violence, their personal autonomy over their own body has been violated," said Jennifer Marsh, director of the National Sexual Assault Hotline, which has heard from victims affected by the pat-downs.

 

"A lot of times during the screening, they have the same feelings they experienced during their assault, because they don't feel like they're in control of the situation, and because of how they are physically being touched," Marsh said.

 

The agency began the more invasive pat-downs in late October, for travelers who opt out of high-tech scanning machines that create naked-body images - and for those who trigger alarms in the scanners or in metal detectors.

 

Most stoic; others irate

 

Many travelers accept the scanning and touching as a necessary inconvenience to keep air travel safe. Some give high marks to the agents who frisk them.

 

"They told me exactly what they were going to do before they did it," said Daniel Chung, 28, of Raleigh, after a Nov. 18 flight out of RDU. "For safety purposes, if that's what it takes, who am I to say different?"

 

[color:red]But critics say TSA agents are not well trained for this delicate duty.[/color]

 

[color:red]"They're coming into very intimate contact with people like rape victims whose trauma may still be very fresh for them," said Jay Stanley, an American Civil Liberties Union policy analyst. "A couple of training sessions for TSA agents is not sufficient to allow them to handle this kind of situation with the sensitivity and dignity that American people deserve."[/color]

 

TSA agents let travelers walk through the metal detector repeatedly until they track down all the coins, keys and buckles that trigger the alarm.

 

But there's no second chance with the body scanner to resolve false alarms - images that, after a pat-down, turn out to be nothing. Allen, the agency spokesman, would not explain why.

 

[color:red]Tim Ely, a retired Army officer who once commanded a military police unit in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, filed an online complaint after a Nov. 20 confrontation at RDU. He was subjected to an intimate pat-down because of a false alarm from the body scanner.[/color]

 

[color:red]After an agent groped around his genitals from in front and from behind, Ely challenged him to explain what sort of anomaly had turned up on his full-body scan.[/color]

 

[color:red]"He said there was something suspicious hanging from between my legs," Ely, 63, wrote in his RDU online comment. "I told him that something suspicious was my [genitals], you dummy."[/color]

 

Feelings of humiliation

 

Calvin Powers, 46, of Raleigh, said his experience before boarding an RDU flight Nov. 23 humiliated him.

 

[color:red]"He started running his hands all over my body," Powers said in an interview. "He went all the way up to my crotch and put pressure on the underside of my testicles.[/color]

 

[color:red]"He stuck his hands down my pants, inside the waistband of my underwear. I could feel the latex gloves on my skin, and he went all the way around my body."[/color]

 

The National Sexual Violence Resource Center, based in Pennsylvania, called on TSA last month to stop the intimate pat-downs, citing rape victims' concerns. Last week, center officials said TSA has promised to improve agents' training.

 

Passengers can ask to be screened in a private room, and they can have a traveling companion present to witness the pat-down, Allen said.

 

"Our officers are trained to treat all passengers with dignity and respect, and to fully communicate with each passenger to ensure they understand the process throughout screening," he said with a snicker. :hubba:

 

 

 

TSA = touch, squeeze, assault