A federal appeals court has now ordered the TSA to explain by August 30 why it has defied an earlier court ruling on the use of the backscatter x-ray scanners.
The law is such an inconvenient thing: A federal appeals court has now ordered the TSA to explain by August 30 why it has defied an earlier court ruling on the use of the backscatter x-ray scanners.
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The law is such an inconvenient thing: A federal appeals court has now ordered the TSA to explain by August 30 why it has defied an earlier court ruling on the use of the backscatter x-ray scanners.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I assume under the cause of national security / patriot act, they will not be answering.
In a related story, I just read a story about a Muslim cleric that made a determination that in the cause of Jihad a person can endure “sodomy”
meaning that they are allowed to insert an explosive into their rectum in the service of Jihad (sodomy is apparently strictly forbidden in Islam).
Based on stories like that, like I said I doubt that the TSA will be explaining anything.
We can have another conversation about the story and stories like it and there sources being valid or invalid, but we do know that there are
people willing to do such things.
We all know that militant Islamists will go to great lengths to hide explosives in their bodies but that doesn’t mean the TSA shouldn’t be upfront about the health risks associated with these full body scanners.
They would be able to argue, if they chose to in some othe runiverse, that national security trumps individuals health interests.
Well, they might not come right out and say it, they will just not reply to the demand. Congress would have to get behind the effort and how
likely do you think that is in this instance when the logic can be supported that there is a “credible” threat ?
Congress’s first job is to ensure the country’s security and ultimatly its survival. You , me and everyone else becomes secondary.
You might now argue that on moral grounds a governmental agency exposing individuals to what might be potentially dangerous x-rays has
an obligation to inform the public as to any danger.
To argue that on moral grounds would fail, in governemnt / leadership, morality is optional.
Consider this, here’s a quote that explains the concept, I forget who said it: First we eat, then ethics.