Body Scanner Installed in Colorado Courthouse in 2008

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
January 13, 2010

If you have business at the courthouse in Castle Rock, Colorado, be prepared to be subjected to a body scan. “Visitors and employees must now walk through a contraption many are used to seeing at airports, hold their hands up and wait to have a 3-D holographic image of their body snapped,” ABC News in Denver reported on June 11, 2008, well before the Christmas underwear non-bomber event and the current wave of government and corporate media spawned irrationality and hysteria designed to escalate Gestapo tactics in airports and acclimate citizens to the evolving police state.

Police respond to a shooting rampage at a federal courthouse in Las Vegas on January 4, 2010. Events like this may be used to call for body scanners in public buildings.

“It’s not quite space age but it is definitely cutting-edge technology. The Douglas County Sheriff’s office said a body scanner and metal detector are both incorporated in the machine making it one of the first in the nation.”

The Denver news station insisted the machine is completely harmless. However, according toMike Adams, the energy emitted by the machines may damage human DNA. Adams cites a study conducted by Boian S. Alexandrov and his colleagues at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico showed that these terahertz waves could “unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication.” In short, the machines may pose a threat to human health.

Beyond the health problems, the fact the machine was installed a full two years prior to the underwear non-bomber incident reveals that body scanners have nothing to do with preventing terrorism — the machines are the next wave of control grid technology. The corporate media blitz underway is an effort to condition the public to accept government hirelings gawking at their private parts. Body scanners are about submission, not preventing terrorism.

It is also significant because we are told the machines will be confined to airports. In fact, the machines will ultimately be installed not only in courthouses – the recent violence at acourthouse in Las Vegas and an earlier incident at a Holocaust museum in Washington may be cited (the latter shooter was described as a 9/11 truth activist by the corporate media) – but in all public places, including train and bus stations (recall the TSA searching bus passengers in Florida) and malls.

In fact, we are one false flag incident away from this. In October, federal authorities claimed a man in Massachusetts planned to “launch a terrorist attack on a shopping mall in which he and his fellow conspirators would mow down civilians with automatic weapons.”

Video: Alex Jones calls for mass resistance to airport body scanners:

The Denver news station insisted the machine is completely harmless. However, according toMike Adams, the energy emitted by the machines may damage human DNA. Adams cites a study conducted by Boian S. Alexandrov and his colleagues at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico showed that these terahertz waves could “unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication.” In short, the machines may pose a threat to human health.

Beyond the health problems, the fact the machine was installed a full two years prior to the underwear non-bomber incident reveals that body scanners have nothing to do with preventing terrorism — the machines are the next wave of control grid technology. The corporate media blitz underway is an effort to condition the public to accept government hirelings gawking at their private parts. Body scanners are about submission, not preventing terrorism.

It is also significant because we are told the machines will be confined to airports. In fact, the machines will ultimately be installed not only in courthouses – the recent violence at acourthouse in Las Vegas and an earlier incident at a Holocaust museum in Washington may be cited (the latter shooter was described as a 9/11 truth activist by the corporate media) – but in all public places, including train and bus stations (recall the TSA searching bus passengers in Florida) and malls.

In fact, we are one false flag incident away from this. In October, federal authorities claimed a man in Massachusetts planned to “launch a terrorist attack on a shopping mall in which he and his fellow conspirators would mow down civilians with automatic weapons.”

Video: Alex Jones calls for mass resistance to airport body scanners:

TSA lies exposed: Full-body scanner machines do save and transmit images, secret documents reveal

(NaturalNews) The TSA has been lying to the American people about full-body scanners. The agency has insisted that these “digital strip search” machines are incapable of save, storing or transmitting the images they take. This, we are told, makes it okay for people to be digitally strip-searched.

But secret documents uncovered by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (www.EPIC.org) have revealed that these machines do indeed posses precisely such capabilities. According to TSA specification requirement documents that have been uncovered by the EPIC, all full-body scanners purchased by the TSA must have the ability to both save and transmit the scanned images of air passengers.

The documents were obtained by EPIC through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. They have also been shared withCNN, which has viewed the documents and published a story about what they reveal.

These documents contradict the claims of the TSA, which include the statement that “the system has no way to save, transmit or print the image.”

TSA misleads the public

The TSA’s own “imaging technology” page (http://www.tsa.gov/approach/tech/im…) claims, “This state-of-the-art technology cannot store, print, transmit or save the image. In fact, all machines are delivered to airports with these functions disabled.”

That in itself is an interesting statement because by stating those functions are “disabled,” it also admits that the machines inherently have these functions. And just because the machines are delivered with the functions disabled doesn’t mean those functions can’t be re-enabled at the flick of a switch.

In other words, these machines are designed and constructed with the ability to save, store and transmit the images.

“I don’t think the TSA has been forthcoming with the American public about the true capability of these devices,” said the Executive Director of EPIC, Marc Rotenberg in a CNN interview. “They’ve done a bunch of very slick promotions where they show people — including journalists — going through the devices. And then they reassure people, based on the images that have been produced, that there’s not any privacy concerns. But if you look at the actual technical specifications and you read the vendor contracts, you come to understand that these machines are capable of doing far more than the TSA has let on.” (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/…)

In other words, the TSA is telling the public and the press one thing, but the machines they’re buying are capable of something far more insidious, these documents reveal. Is the TSA intentionally lying to the public in order to mislead people over the real capabilities of these machines?

If these full-body scanners can save, store and transmit images, then it’s only a matter of time before some rogue TSA employee finds a way to copy off the images or display them on the screen so that they can take snapshots with their own portable cameras.

The TSA says it’s protecting your privacy. But its own scanner specification documents tell a different story: The TSA won’t even buy these machines unless they can save, store and transmit revealing images of air passengers.

Sources for this story include:

CNN:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/…

TSA.gov:
http://www.tsa.gov/approach/tech/im…

EPIC:
www.Epic.org

Full-body scanners used on air passengers may damage human DNA

(NaturalNews) In researching the biological effects of themillimeter wave scanners used for whole body imaging at airports, NaturalNews has learned that the energy emitted by the machines may damage human DNA.

Millimeter wave machines represent one of two primary technologies currently being used for the “digital strip searches” being conducted at airports around the world. “The Transportation Security Administration utilizes two technologies to capture naked images of air travelers – backscatter x-ray technology and millimeter wave technology,” reports the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a non-profit currently suing the U.S. government to stop these electronic strip searches. (http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/b…)

In order to generate the nude image of the human body, these machines emit terahertz photons – high-frequency energy “particles” that can pass through clothing and body tissue.

The manufacturers of such machines claim they are perfectly safe and present no health risks, but a study conducted by Boian S. Alexandrov (and colleagues) at theCenter for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico showed that these terahertz waves could “…unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication.”

In layman’s terms, any time you’re talking about interfering with “gene expression” and “DNA replication,” you’re essentially talking about something that could be a risk to human health.

Never approved as safe for humans

“At first glance, it’s easy to dismiss any notion that they can be damaging,” reports TechnologyReview.com (http://www.technologyreview.com/blo…). “But a new generation of cameras are set to appear that not only record terahertz waves but also bombard us with them. And if our exposure is set to increase, the question that urgently needs answering is what level of terahertz exposure is safe.”

And yet no such long-term safety testing has ever been conducted by a third party. There have been no clinical trialsindicating that multiple exposures to such terahertz waves, accumulated over a long period of time, are safe for humans. The FDA, in particular, has never granted its approval for any such devices even though these devices clearly qualify as “medical devices.”

(If you try to sell an X-ray imaging device yourself, without FDA approval, you’ll be arrested. So why do these TSAsuppliers get away with selling human body imaging equipment that has never been adequately safety tested or approved by the FDA?)

The study cited in the TechnologyReview article mentioned above is visible at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5294

There, study authors conclude: “Based on our results we argue that a specific terahertz radiation exposure may significantly affect the natural dynamics of DNA, and thereby influence intricate molecular processes involved in gene expression and DNA replication.”

In other words, millimeter wave scanning devices may damage your DNA.

(These images depict what the TSA sees when air passengers are subjected to full-body scans using millimeter wave technology and / or backscatter X-rays.)

Could these scans cause cancer and birth defects?

Could these scans cause infertility? Cancer? Shortened lifespan? We don’t yet know the answers to these questions, but then again neither does the TSA. This technology is being recklessly rolled out without adequate safety testing that would prove it safe for long-term use.

How many times in the past have the “experts” told us technologies were perfectly safe and then later we found out they were dangerous? X-Rays were once used in shoe stores to see if new shoes would fit the bone structure of your feet. High-voltage power lines are perfectly safe, we’re told — but then why do children who live closer to those lines have higher rates of cancer?

Dentists still claim that mercury fillings are perfectly safe for your health — a preposterous notion — and cell phonecompanies continue to insist that cell phone radiation isn’t hazardous to your health at all. Time and time again, the public has been lied to by the authorities during the roll-out of some new technology. Why should we believe that full-body scanners are safe when they’ve never been proven safe? Furthermore, there is now reason to believe they may damage human DNA.

What if the experts are wrong about their safety and ten years later we find out that there is cumulative DNA damagethat causes infertility and cancer? What if air travelers who subject themselves to this radiation wind up suffering some currently-unknown health condition as a result? At no time in the history of human civilization have large numbers of humans ever been subjected to terahertz bombardment of this type and frequency.

Sure, you can argue that you get more radiation sitting in an airplane at high altitude than you get from a full-body scanner, or you can explain that cell phones emit far more radiation on the whole (which they do, when you’re talking on them anyway). But if there’s one thing we all should have learned about radiation by now it’s that frequencies matter. The terahertz frequencies have never been rolled out en masse in a scanning technology. Who’s to say they’re going to be safe?

What about pregnant women? Can the TSA absolutely guarantee that these full-body scanners won’t damage the DNA of the unborn babies? What if this technology becomes the next Thalidomide and ten months from now women start giving birth to mutant babies who were damaged by terahertz radiation?

I’m not saying this is going to happen, but wouldn’t it be wise to determine the safety of this technology in advance of its global rollout?

As the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements admitted in a 2002 report that studied these security devices: (http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/AC…)

“[We] cannot exclude the possibility of a fatal cancer attributable to radiation in a very large population of people exposed to very low doses of radiation.”

Barring solid evidence of the safety of this terahertz-emitting technology, the TSA would be wise to follow the Precautionary Principle which states that we should err on the side of caution when it comes to the roll out of new technologies. Unfortunately, the TSA appears to be erring on the side of stupidity by subjecting the public to an unproven, “experimental” technology with unknown long-term effects on human DNA.

And here’s the real kicker: These full-body scanners do nothing to stop terrorists because they can’t detect powder explosives in the first place. A determined terrorist can hide all sorts of powder in a shoe, or a sleeping pillow, or a plastic bag sewn into the side of his carry-on luggage. There are a thousand places for terrorists to hide explosives that won’t be caught on full-body scanners, no matter how detailed the images are.

Besides, in order to avoid engaging in child pornography (because these machines offer very detailed depictions of body parts), the rules will allow people under 18 years of age to bypass them. So all you need then, if you’re a terrorist, is a 17-year-old terrorist assistant who can pack explosives in his own underwear.

Radiology experts claim full-body scanners are safe

Radiology experts are claiming that the radiation emitted from these full-body scanners is perfectly safe for you. Then again, they also claim mammograms are safe, and recent science has now proven that mammograms cause cancer.

When it comes to radiation safety, you can’t trust radiologists. They say all that radiation is safe for YOU, but then they flee the room when the X-rays are turned on, ever notice that? They really have zero credibility when talking about the long-term safety of medical imaging devices. Most doctors, similarly, don’t have any real clue how much radiation is emitted by a CT scan!

As BusinessWeek reports: (http://www.businessweek.com/lifesty…)

“The health effects of the more common millimeter-wave scanners are largely unknown, and at least one expert believes a safety study is warranted.

‘I am very interested in performing a National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements study on the use of millimeter-wave security screening systems,’ said Thomas S. Tenforde, council president.”

The New York Times adds: (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/h…)

“Collectively, the radiation doses from the scanners incrementally increase the risk of fatal cancers among the thousands or millions of travelers who will be exposed, some radiation experts believe.”

NYT goes on to state that the TSA has entered into a contract under which it could purchase 900 full-body scanners to be deployed in airport all across the country.

Resources:

Physics Letters, January 8, 2010
http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5294

Technology Review:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blo…

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millim…

New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/h…

85-Year-Old Woman Terrorized By Airport Security Thugs

Disabled grandma could be Al-Qaeda, warns Canadian transport minister

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, January 11, 2010

An 85-year-old woman who was terrorized by airport security thugs at Ottawa Airport yesterday got little sympathy from Canadian transport minister John Baird, who refused to apologize, warning that disabled grandmas will continue to be treated as possible Al-Qaeda suicide bombers.

“Baird was asked by media Sunday about the treatment of the four-foot-10, 90-pound woman who was travelling from Ottawa to Toronto on Dec. 28. The woman was asked to remove her boots and then unzip her pants. A female inspection officer then poked at her abdomen,” reports the Montreal Gazette.

These are the same thugs who will be sitting in back rooms enjoying high resolution naked images of your children once full body scanners are rolled out nationwide.

The woman’s niece, Cynthia Sutcliffe, said that the former federal public servant is now “terrified” of airport security and that the search was “extreme.”

Baird’s reaction was a striking reminder of the fact that even if there were hoards of terrorists itching to blow themselves up, as western governments constantly claim, our illustrious airport security officials have been told to specifically target geriatric pensioners with incontinence bags and people in wheelchairs.

“The reality is, as we’ve seen in Iraq, the al-Qaida network has put explosive devices on developmentally disabled adults and then sent them into marketplaces where their bombs were detonated,” Baird said on the Sunday TV show Question Period. “Obviously we have to deal with every concern. I think we should use common sense.”

Apparently, Baird thinks it was an act of “common sense” for airport gestapo to single out the old woman for extra screening even after they were told that her protruding stomach was a result of her suffering from osteoporosis. He also seemingly sees logic in making a connection between the activities of Middle Eastern insurgents and your grandma’s vacation.

“I want them to catch the bad guys, don’t kid yourself,” said Sutcliffe. “But if it’s your grandmother or grandfather who is going to be wearing those undergarments for personal incontinence and things, and then they start saying, ‘Well the guy that blew up the plane had the stuff in his underwear,’ where do we stop?”

The elderly and disabled have become a prime target of stifling security in airports precisely forthe same reasons we outlined as to why naked full body scanners were being introduced. The sickos crafting the screening policies want to test the limits of what kind of humiliation and indignity we are willing to endure.

Because the measures are so alien to any form of common sense or decency, they have to hire semi-retarded morons who have no intelligence or original thought processes of their own to carry them out. The kind of people who would struggle to cope with the cognitive demands of flipping a piece of meat at Burger King and are only good at following basic orders, which in this instance are to harass the very people who are least likely to be a threat.

A sterling example of their work unfolded at Bakersfield airport in California recently, when TSA agents shut down the entire airport after claiming they had found liquid explosives in what turned out to be five jars of honey. TSA agents even complained of smelling a “strong chemical odor”after they opened the bottles and were taken to hospital!

According to Reuters, “Kern County Sheriffs deputies, fire crews, FBI agents and members of a joint terrorism task force responded to the scene and spent the day questioning (Francisco) Ramirez before further tests showed that the liquid was honey.”

“Apparently, TSA employees are so unbelievably retarded that they don’t even know what honey smells like or looks like,” writes Mike Adams. “When they smell honey, they mistakenly believe they’re under a chemical attack! And then they engage in all sorts of theater by acting like they’re experiencing nausea so that they can be carted off to the hospital and take the rest of the work day off.”

“The TSA can’t catch actual terrorists, but it’s really good at flagging innocent people as terrorists and wasting thousands of hours of time (and millions of dollars for the airlines) declaring bogus terrorists emergencies that only serve to inconvenience everyone.”

That’s correct, the same people who think honey is a deadly explosive weapon will be trusted to act with the utmost professionalism when they are ogling naked images of your daughter and laughing at grandma’s pee bag while you wait in line to be naked body scanned next.

TV Presenter Warned By Police – Carrying Knife In Own Home Is Illegal

Press AssociationMonday , January 11th, 2010Myleene Klass was said to be “aghast” and “bemused” after being warned by police for waving a knife at youths who entered her garden.The TV star and Marks & Spencer model was in the kitchen with her daughter upstairs when she spotted the teenagers peering into her window just after midnight on Friday. She grabbed a knife and banged the windows before they ran away.Hertfordshire Police officers warned Miss Klass she should not have used a knife to scare off the youths because carrying an “offensive weapon” – even in her own home – was illegal.Her spokesman Jonathan Shalit said the former Hearsay singer was “utterly terrified” and was stepping up security at the property near Potters Bar.Full article here

Privacy activists score victories against more detailed body scanners at airports

John C. Hayes
Chicago Tribune 
Sunday, January 10th, 2010

WASHINGTON — – The government has promised more and better security at airports after the near-disaster Christmas Day, but privacy advocates are not prepared to accept the use of full-body scanners as the routine screening system at the nation’s airports.

“We don’t need to look at naked 8-year-olds and grandmothers to secure airplanes,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said Friday. “Are we really going to subject 2 million people per day to that? I think it’s a false argument to say we have to give up all of our personal privacy in order to have security.”

The balance between privacy and security tilts after each major terrorism incident in favor of greater security. But in the past decade, privacy advocates have been successful in blocking or stalling government plans for more searches.

A conservative freshman in the House, Chaffetz won a large, bipartisan majority last year for an amendment to oppose the government’s use of body-image scanners as the primary screening system for air travelers. He was joined by the American Civil Liberties Union, which said the scanners are the equivalent of a “virtual strip search.”

The pro-privacy stand does not follow the traditional ideological lines; Republicans and Democrats have united on the issue now and in the past.

Full article here