Comments on: The TSA is pulling its invasive X-ray scanners from the country’s busiest airports. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-tsa-is-pulling-its-invasive-x-ray-scanners-from-the-countrys-busiest-airports/ Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:00:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Rene Borbon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-tsa-is-pulling-its-invasive-x-ray-scanners-from-the-countrys-busiest-airports/#comment-67954 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:00:41 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=20404#comment-67954 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.

]]> By: Bill Farrand https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-tsa-is-pulling-its-invasive-x-ray-scanners-from-the-countrys-busiest-airports/#comment-67951 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:31:14 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=20404#comment-67951 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!

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