Pope slams airport naked body scanners [CN-USA]

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In an address to airport workers, Pope Benedict has spoken out against the use of security body scanners insisting that “human dignity must be preserved”.

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Seems like a much less expensive and intrusive solution would be to have bomb sniffing dogs by the metal detectors. I’ve flown a few times in the last couple years, and have never seen any dogs in the airport.
 
I never felt it was wrong to display the silhouette of passengers for the safety and security of everyone. It is not like someone is taking a picture and turning it into a centerfold for a sleazy magazine. Body after body - all day long - and everyone stays safe.
Anyway - I just think that airport scanners reflect the difficult times we live in…the cost of keeping people safe…the cost of flying.
Given a choice - I’d rather not fly. I prefer walking or bicycling 😃
 
…thinkin’ more about this one………
The cost of sending of children to public school….no prayer and immoral sex education
The cost of living in some countries……paying taxes that support murder
The cost of using the internet……chance encounters with viruses and dregs of the world
The cost of paying to see a movie at a theatre……foul language violence, obscenities
The cost of riding an airplane….strict boarding rules that violate human decency and still always the possibility of terrorism attacks
Right or wrong - the choice is ours
 
Beautiful said:
I never felt it was wrong to display the silhouette of passengers for the safety and security of everyone. It is not like someone is taking a picture and turning it into a centerfold for a sleazy magazine. Body after body - all day long - and everyone stays safe.
Anyway - I just think that airport scanners reflect the difficult times we live in…the cost of keeping people safe…the cost of flying.
Given a choice - I’d rather not fly. I prefer walking or bicycling 😃
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Here is an interesting story concerning this very thing, and a Bollywood actor. He claims the airport security people made printouts of his silhouette. Who knows if he’s telling the truth or the airport, but there will always be this risk.

telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/bollywood/7203872/Airport-denies-body-scanner-photo-claim-by-Bollywood-star-Shahrukh-Khan.html
 
joeflow said:
Here is an interesting story concerning this very thing, and a Bollywood actor. He claims the airport security people made printouts of his silhouette. Who knows if he’s telling the truth or the airport, but there will always be this risk.

telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/bollywood/7203872/Airport-denies-body-scanner-photo-claim-by-Bollywood-star-Shahrukh-Khan.html
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I suppose the risk is greatest for famous figures and such…that would not be me. Such is the price of fame and fortune …I guess.
 
These scanners will be completely ineffective at detecting another ‘panty’ bomber because the terrorists are already working around this problem. They are having their explosives surgically implanted so they will not show up on the scanner at all.

Terrorists ‘surgically implanting bombs’
BRITAIN and the US face a new al-Qaeda terror threat from so-called suicide body bombers with explosives surgically inserted inside them.
An operation by the UK intelligence service MI5 uncovered evidence that al-Qaeda was planning a new stage in its terror campaign by surgically inserting explosives inside terrorists, British newspaper The Mail on Sunday reported.
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The explosive pentaerythritol tetranitrate, commonly known as PETN, would be placed in a plastic sachet inside the bomber’s body before the wound was stitched up like a normal operation incision and allowed to heal, experts said.
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It would then be detonated with an injection of triacetone triperoxide, administered with syringes that could be smuggled onto planes disguised as a diabetic’s insulin kit.
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Al-Qa’ida terrorists could have bombs surgically implanted

Terrorists ‘plan attack on Britain with bombs INSIDE their bodies’ to foil new airport scanners
 
The fact is that we will NEVER be 100% safe in this world - period.

We’re more likely to win $100 million from a lottery ticket, or to be hit by lightning 5 TIMES and surviving it every time than we are to be killed in some kind of “terrorist attack.”

Personally, I think people should gather up their guts & go on with life, rather than constantly working to invent more invasive & humiliating ways to pretend to be “protecting us all” from events that aren’t all that likely.

Just my 2 cents… 🤷
 
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