"Logan will install body scanners; TSA has adjusted device to ease privacy concerns" by Nicole C. Wong, Globe Staff | July 1, 2008
The Transportation Security Administration said yesterday it will beef up screening at Boston's Logan International Airport with better X-ray machines to check carry-on bags and full-body scanners that can see through clothing to detect whether travelers are concealing objects.
All based on that INSIDE JOB LIE of 9/11!!!!
REMEMBER that, America, as you Sig Heil your way down the street!
The TSA plans to outfit the airport in October or November with more than one of these so-called whole-body imaging machines, which have raised privacy concerns where they have been tested. The scanners produce three-dimensional images of people's naked bodies, but the agency says procedures have been modified to protect passenger privacy.
The technology "allows us to screen passengers for any prohibited items quickly and unobtrusively," said George Naccara, the TSA's federal security director for Logan. "Efficiency and effectiveness will improve with whole-body imaging."
Yeah, the TYRANNY is for your OWN GOOD!!!
According to sample images shown on the TSA website, full-body scanners can display images that show details such as muscle definition. But the machines will blur passengers' faces, which is one of the improvements the TSA has made.
"They've turned down the intensity a bit so some of the images under the clothes will be fuzzy," he said. "They've also remotely located the person viewing the images so that person can't associate the image with the passenger. We don't have any capability to store or to print any of these images."
First, I don't believe them (suck shit and calm down, 'murka), and second of all, what is to stop them from turning the resolution back up?
WAKE UP, America, and DON'T FLY!!!
The machines can detect nonmetallic objects hidden under clothing, such as explosives, and will replace pat downs of travelers who trigger a metal detector or are flagged as a "person of interest."
Officials say the security enhancements aren't in response to new threats at Logan. The Boston airport is often among the first to deploy innovative technologies, a lingering effect of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in which the two hijacked planes that brought down New York's World Trade Center departed from Logan.
Yeah, sure, those two planes brought down the WTC towers.
Whatever. Just proves that all the papers do is SHOVEL LIES!
"Anything that can increase security over what we currently do is a marvelous thing," said Dennis Treece, Massport's director of corporate security.
Sig Heil, buddy!
The full-body scanners were first rolled out more than a year ago at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and are currently being tested at nine other airports, including New York's John F. Kennedy, Washington, D.C.'s Reagan National, and Los Angeles International. Logan's machines will become a permanent part of the security process at the airport, said Naccara.
And that is how it works; a couple pilot programs, and before you know it they are EVERYWHERE!
Donna Menefee, who works part time doing customer service for Delta, calls it "a horrible idea." "That's basically an invasion of your privacy to see everything through your clothes," said the 41-year-old Bostonian, who flew back from Myrtle Beach, S.C., yesterday. "We go through enough screening. Why do you have to see my body parts?"
So the sick TSA perverts can beat off?
Passengers uncomfortable with the revealing full-body scanners can ask for another option.
"You can refuse," said Treece. But that will result in a pat down by an agent or screening with a handheld metal detector. "A lot of passengers don't like to be touched and would prefer to just let technology do it," he said.
Why should WE HAVE to be INCONVENIENCED over a DAMNABLE LIE?!?!
FUCK FLYING FOREVER!!!!!
The TSA also will gradually replace the 35 to 40 carry-on baggage X-ray machines at Logan's security checkpoints with higher-resolution ones that provide more detailed, multidimensional images, Naccara said. That will aid screening agents in identifying objects that are concealed in books, stowed in pouches, or sitting near zippers.
Just WHAT exactly are they LOOKING FOR by my ZIPPER, huh?
And starting next week, the TSA will introduce round-the-clock physical screening of all airport employees and vendors.
Sig-fucking-Heil, huh?
Currently, swing-shift workers can enter baggage screening rooms, gate ramps, jetways, and other secure areas by unlocking doors using their fingerprints combined with a keypad code and media card.
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All this TYRANNY over a STINKING LIE!!!!
