Commentary:

Ten years after the tragic events of September 11 of 2001 are we any safer?

The events of September 11 have been used to usher in an array of laws contrary to a free society.  Start wars with countries that had tenable connections to the questionable events of the day.  Deploying powerful covert imaging equipment to our streets and airports that is a health risk to the public.

To make us safer powerful x-ray machines may be "inspecting" your car.

No money to inspect our bridges before they fall into the river, but have funds to inspect your car at the supper bowl [6] or in downtown USA.[5] Customs and Border Protection part of DHS (department of homeland security) used backscatter vans, like the one above, at Super Bowl (2010) XLIV in Miami in 2010. (Photo courtesy of Customs and Border Protection)

More powerful versions of the airport scanners are mounted in plain delivery truck searching people and cars at ferry crossings, sport venues, parking lots, presidential events, in NY city and VIPER highway check points. The vans are generally unmarked except for a small flashing yellow light on top when x-rays are being emitted. If you see this equipment coming RUN! The risk to expecting mothers and small children is great. (image courtesy of AS&E)

We have spent trillions on the war on "Terror" while our roads collapse from neglect.

In the ten years, we have spent 480 billion on homeland security. Spent 4,000 to 8,000 billions on five wars on "terror" scattered around the planet. While our infrastructure is falling apart, bridge's collapse into our rivers and trains are jumping tracks. [4] Sadly, the USA rail service lags behind industrial countries. High-speed trains would be in some cases faster than air travel for some city to city. We commit trillions to fight a Noun while our borders are still open? (image NTSB)

Disease transfer at Security

While keeping you "safe" TSA gives you some strange infection from blue gloved hands put in places it does not belong. And or an exotic fungus from the floor? Not to worry government "health" care have you covered! Demand clean gloves better yet hands off.

We are told the images generated are "fuzzy ghost like images"

In fact, scanner manufacture bragged about the technology’s abilities include near-photo quality views through clothes when used in airport screening systems, which caused something of a privacy uproar. In fact, the systems can see hair and beads of sweat. The "privacy" software is just for PR (public relations) only half of the machines have it. Privacy may well be ignored in situations of war or insurrection from the banking collapse. [8] When, in fact, the body scanners do allow airport workers to see intricate details of your body – penis length, breast size, implants, piercing, including crystal clear naked shots of your children.

We are told by some flying is a privilege?

This is wrong the pubic air space like the side walk or road is a public easement. [1] We need no permit, scan or pat-down to use our common space.  In fact, like the road the airspace is a public Commons the use is not a privilege however we must share the space in an orderly fashion.  

Claims Body scanners don't emit any radiation?

 The TSA spoke's people are clearly putting forward false information or never took a basic physics class. This electrical engineering author knows the backscatter x-ray machines use ionizing radiation that penetrates into the tissue scattering about 5-7 percent back to detectors to form the detailed images.  Forward or transmission x-ray like the image above and below give exposures comparable to a chest x-ray.  The actual dose delivered by back scatter systems is still clouded in controversy due to the obscure test conditions, x-ray detectors used and the use of "whole body" dose estimates not applicable to the lower energy x-rays used.  Using publicly available information, detector knowledge and physics the skin dose is about 20-100x larger than the "official" dose.  (image compliments of BBC, New Castle airport UK).

 Similarly, the mm-wave-microwave systems are more like active radar bouncing radiation backward to specialized detectors.  The internal "raw" images of both systems are quite detailed.  The public is being tricked into thinking the images are "fuzzy," can't be saved, remotely viewed or only an avatar is viable.  The systems are described as "passive" when, in fact, active microwave transmitters are in use.

Our pretrial and prison population are at risk

We are perhaps all considered prisoners in the modern open air jail known as USA will millions of 'laws,' we are all unindicted criminals. Our jails are being equipped with scanners to get around the warrant required for strip searches. Prison managers don't hide behind "national security" so are more open about exposure numbers. System exposure is 10 to 50 times higher than that of an airport scanner depending on image quality. Even with the standard setting, the quality of the image produced by the SecurPASS is so good that people don't have to take off their jackets or shoes, as they do before going through the airport scanners, Kessler said. "It's almost like we're treating people like luggage," he said. 

Another inmate, he said, was found to have kidney stones. Steve Patterson, then the Cook County (Ill) Sheriff's office spokesman, told ProPublica.  Deputies can be trained in 20-minutes or less in the use of the scanner. (image compliments of State of Florida)  Being a security device the FDA has allowed this device to avoid regulation.  People are often scanned multiple times due to poor training, or it is abused and used as toys.

"Cute" women are selected for "random" scans

 What they are doing is digital voyeurism under the cover of "security". It is common practice to “randomly” select attractive women for screening. [4] March is national sexual assault month, Rocky Flats Gear makes scanner protective products to protect and discourage this activity. 

We are being scanned without our knowledge

Mobile x-ray vans scanning people at ferrying crossings or driving down our streets looking for guns?[6] 

Sporting Venus used as "security" Laboratories

Facial recognition used at the 2001 supper bowl, x-ray scanning of cars at the 2010 and 2012 supper bowls. [6]  We are seeing a merger of state with private corporations. The airlines use TSA to provide security for private flights. Similarly, the private NFL is more than happy to shift security costs to the general public to provide security for an exclusive game. This has been going on from 2001 forward the 2012 supper bowl was a show case of security. While the general public is taxed into submission can't afford tickets to the game it's subsidizing. DHS is more than happy to ask for a larger budget to try out new toys and expand it's questionable mission. Let private companies supply the level of security their customers demand and are willing to pay for.

Ten Years Later Are we safer?

  I submit not.  The long-overdue  addition of secure cockpit doors is the best deterrent.  Allowing the flight crew to have the tools to defend the plane is a second effective low cost deterrent.  Passengers will no longer tolerate passengers threatening  the flight and quickly deal with issues. [7]

Was 911 used to scare the public and make a few very wealthy? 

 What we are seeing is a trend tend worldwide to accept greater radiation levels in our food, water and soils.  And to force people to accept being irradiated by covert x-ray vans and general security.  For the public to accept intercepting of emails, faxes, cell and telephone calls by shadowy agencies.  Perhaps policy makers have gone mad or don't care? Little wonder cancer rates are in the rise and privacy on the decline?  We at Rocky Flats Gear are trying to do our small part to promote liberty, radiation education, health and sanity in an increasingly crazy world.

Jeff Buske, Electrical engineer, researcher, inventor, defender of DNA, promoter of common sense and  CTO of Rocky Flats Gear.

References:

[1] http://www.atlantaunfiltered.com/2011/11/02/u-s-glossed-over-airport-x-ray-cancer-concerns

[3] http://tsanewsblog.com/1204/news/dhs-scanning-people-everywhere-even-without-their-knowledge/

[4] http://www.thedailysheeple.com/tsa-profiling-hot-chicks-requiring-multiple-revealing-backscatter-scans_022012/comment-page-1#comment-11376

[5] http://www.propublica.org/article/coffee-tea-or-cancer-americans-oppose-x-ray-body-scanners

[6] http://www.propublica.org/article/drive-by-scanning-officials-expand-use-and-dose-of-radiation-for-security-s