Virtually all passengers and airline crews who pass through airport screening checkpoints in the U.S. may soon be forced to submit to compulsory, whole-body X-ray exposure. Some fliers could be “fried” several times in one day. Frequent fliers could get hit hundreds of times each year. Pregnant women, infants, the chronically ill and immune suppressed would get the rays. Grateful herds of traveling livestock, prodded by TSA drovers through federally-funded “nuke chutes,” are expected to believe Hollowell’s scientifically unsupported assertion that ionizing radiation delivered via backscatter will be “about the same as sunshine".'
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Apparently, the proposed new scanners do not use ionising radiation, but Terahertz radiation.
ReplyDeleteSame difference - Los Alamos published researched showing that small doses "unzip" DNA; the UK Health & Safety Executive is coy, but states that there is no known safe dose (it's British, you have to read between the lines) and the EU's own research shows a danger.
As a frequent flier, it scares me. I've decided to ask my employer for a change in position to one that means I no longer have to fly. If that doesn't work, it's career change time.
The only way to stop this (and the next piece of nonsense, likely to be X-ray scans to check for internally secreted weapons and drugs) is to stop flying. When the Treasury and the airlines are hit in the pocket, the situation may well change. If we go along with it, it won't.