The truth behind the TSA scanners...

[walldude]

Look this is simple. This new breach of privacy is nothing more than another money making scam designed by members of the Bush administration who saw 9/11 not as a great national tragedy but as an opportunity to steal as much as they could.
Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is now representing the company that he gave the TSA scanner contract to while he was HSS. Nice how this works. Get a Government gig, give a company a contract, quit your government gig to join said company and reap the benefits from the gig you gave them.

http://www.wcvarones.com/2010/11/tsas-nude-scanners-former-homeland.html

Here is Republican Jim Duncan from Tenn telling it like it is on the house floor today.. Yes Republican, don't shoot me I'm just passing this along. Besides when's the last time you saw a Republican get pissed about the revolving door between government and the private sector...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH-dpkJZiOM&feature=player_embedded

[leftstreet]

1. Privatizing and union busting = greater profits for the Predator Class

Yep

[uppityperson]

2. Here is a good explanation, youtube video, fun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXDLQPfqc04

[DemReadingDU]

7. Explains the situation well

These procedures are not about security, but about control. If people submit to these invasive procedures, what will people submit to next?

[Oceansaway]

3. K&R...n/t

[barbtries]

4. yep

"Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is now representing the company that he gave the TSA scanner contract to while he was HSS."

fucking chertoff is such a thorn in my side. he must be more teflon that reagan palin bush and cheney combined. the man is a snake.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. The Aviation boards, the Aviation boards, and oh, the Aviation boards.

Check to see who is on the boards, and how they got appointed.

[walldude]

6. kicking this.

[Mimosa]

8. Good for Jim Duncan

What Duncan said took guts, considering the power of creeps including Chertoff, who is a biggie in the Republican Party.

My med prof pal is very concerned what the long tern effects of those scanners might be. Maybe an epidemic of thyroid and other cancers, he said. But of course cancers will be yet another profit for the 'for profit' health care corporations our Democratic House and Senate imprimatured and sealed into profitability with the 'Affordable Health Care Act'.

[BadgerKid]

9. Apparently there's no revolving door policy?

My cynical side tells me that lowly government workers would get the ethics book thrown at them.