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The TSA is pulling its invasive X-ray scanners from the country’s busiest airports.

Good news: The TSA is pulling its invasive X-ray scanners from the country’s busiest airports.

Unfortunately, they aren’t getting rid of them, only moving them to less busy airports. Nonetheless, this action suggests that the refusal of many people (such as myself) to submit to these machines slowed things down enough that the TSA was forced to abandon them. This suggests that more people should refuse and force them to do as many body searches as possible. In the end we get rid of them all.

Genesis cover

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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. 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

2 comments

  • I think this news stinks! I have a hip prosethesis (from a hip resurfacing operation). With these machines I can breeze right through security. With the metal detectors, I was always pulled out for the secondary screening. Aaargh!

  • Rene Borbon

    I’ve been refusing the full body scanners for months now. The TSA folks sometimes would get annoyed because I would slow the line down. I’ve verbally challenged most of them during my experiences — I think they hear complaints a lot about violation of privacy and Constitutional problems with the scanners. Because I currently have a military ID, I can now pass through a much less rigorous check — which includes the TSA retrieving my security clearance from the DOD. They show more respect when you are a military service member with a security clearance.

    I’ve complained to TSA folks, as a service member, risking my life and limb in Afghanistan in the Taliban homeland and avoiding rockets, bullets, and bombs, I felt our airports have manifested the police state, something I find contrary to the reason I joined the Navy Reserve, to protect the Constitution and the freedoms we enjoy.

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