In the new pat-downs, officers use open hands "and fingers" - instead of the backs of their hands - "to go over one's body, including the genital area and breasts," according to a statement by a pilot group upset by the procedure.

Also, The TSA seems to be very vested in making sure that as few passengers as possible opt out of the naked radiation screening. When a person chooses to opt out, the TSA workers yell loudly, “OPT OUT. WE’VE GOT AN OPT OUT,” drawing unwanted attention to the poor passenger who is uncomfortable with being photographed naked. The day before yesterday (November 8, 2010) a young lady named Meg McLain was singled out for the full body screening at Ft. Lauderdale International Airport. When she objected to being manhandled (this was even before the enhanced pat down), she was handcuffed to a chair, her ticket was ripped in half, and she was escorted out of the airport by TWELVE police officers. Why am I not surprised that she was chosen for the full body scanner? She’s young and beautiful. Numerous news reports are reporting that a disproportionate number of women and children are being asked to undergo the full body scanner.

Former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has given dozens of media interviews touting the need for the federal government to buy more full-body scanners for airports,” reports the Boston Globe.

“What he has made little mention of is that the Chertoff Group, his security consulting agency, includes a client that manufactures the machines. Chertoff disclosed the relationship on a CNN program in response to a question.”

Approaching the issue from a health angle, despite official assurances that the scanners are safe, there are many concerns about the physical impact of firing radiation at the body, especially if the individual has had previous x-ray scans, mammograms, or is a frequent flyer.

Dr. John Gofman, Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California, Berkeley, maintains that there is no safe dose of ionizing radiation. Gofman argues that radiation from medical diagnostics and treatment is responsible for 50 per cent of cancers of 60 per cent of heart disease cases amongst Americans.

“The fact, that X-ray doses are so seldom measured, reflects the false assumption that doses do not matter…[but] they do matter enormously. And each bit of additional dose matters, because any X-ray photon may be the one which sets in motion the high-speed, high energy electron which causes a carcinogenic or atherogenic [smooth muscle] mutation. Such mutations rarely disappear. The higher their accumulated number in a population, the higher will be the population’s mortality rates from radiation-induced cancer and ischemic heart disease,” states Gofman.

“The millimetre wave technology is harmless, quick and can be deployed overtly or covertly. But it cannot detect chemicals or light plastics.”

JUST OPT OUT...email all your friends/family tell everyone to opt out. Or if you choose to drive take a train or a bus then email the airline carrier to tell them that you will not be touched, if everyone who chooses not to fly and shares their reasons witht he airlines then maybe the airlines will start to think twice. JUST OPT OUT.

Have a safe holiday season and don't be radiated or touched by bullies or pigs.



If you can get your family, your friends to opt out and if hundreds opt out then what to do what to do...