Thursday, January 26, 2012
Idaho Legislature Barbieri Doesn't Want TSA Searches, But Also Refuses to Go Through X-Rays
Posted by George Prentice on Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:52 AM
Dalton Gardens Republican Rep. Vito Barbieri, who a year ago labeled the Affordable Care Act "socialism," and sponsored a nullification bill of what he called "Obamacare," this year has another federal behemoth in his crosshairs: the Transportation Security Administration.
In an interview with the Idaho Reporter, Barbieri said he hadn't consulted with the TSA about a measure that would outlaw unwanted searches at Idaho airports, and he wasn't "even sure that the state has the authority to end the pat-downs," but he still was ready to introduce a bill that would amend Idaho Code preventing TSA personnel from touching a person without consent.
But in a real head-scratcher, Barbieri, in the same interview, said he also opposed full-body scans of passengers.
"I will not go through the machine," Barbieri told the Idaho Reporter. "I'm always patted down."
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Why is that such a head-scratcher? He obviously MUST fly for his job.
An ex-TSA agent showed me how bombs and weapons can go through these scanners and not be detected. So their reliability is a hugely questionable.
The machines have not been independently tested and verified to be safe and they are another violation of our privacy.
Really, no dose of radiation is safe, when the radiation is targeted for just beneath the skin, completely unlike the random background radiation we are naturally bombarded with daily. If I had no choice but to fly, I'd opt out of the scanners too.
Read the report on TSA by Congress, published in November. Congress flat out said TSA is failing in its mission. Instead of failing to act on reliable, meaningful intelligence it has become a bloated "human resources" bureaucracy (i.e., job creator of last resort) with a "one size fits all" approach to security.
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The scanners emit health-risky radiation that can cause cataracts, skin cancer, prostate cancer and breast cancer, as well as damage DNA strands. The enhanced pat-downs are an invasion of our right to be unmolested under the Fourth Amendment unless we are suspected of a crime.
I am opposed to both the scanners and the invasive pat-downs as well. I think the head-scratcher is why anyone would submit to either one of these illegal and intrusive methods that do not deter terrorism. Go back to metal detectors - at least they were effective in detecting guns.
Julia Rachiele
I will not subject myself nor my family to needless radiation exposure nor TSA molestation. My family and I will not be flying until the TSA changes these procedures. If you are that afraid of terrorists then lock your doors and don't come out of your house. And when the next would be bomber has a device in a body cavity will we have to submit to a body cavity search?
Radiation free body scanner. Why doesn't the TSA use these?
http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20110808-radiation-free-full-body-scanners
"They say the risk is minimal, but statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays," Dr Michael Love, who runs an X-ray lab at the department of biophysics and biophysical chemistry at Johns Hopkins University school of medicine, told AFP."No exposure to X-ray is considered beneficial. We know X-rays are hazardous but we have a situation at the airports where people are so eager to fly that they will risk their lives in this manner,"
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/20/aol-investigation-no-proof-tsa-scanners-are-safe/
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/body-scanners-dangerous-scientists
Uncontrolled search and seizure is one of the first and most effective weapons in the arsenal of every arbitrary government. Among deprivations of rights, none is so effective in cowing a population, crushing the spirit of the individual and putting terror in every heart.
Justice Robert Jackson, chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
I'm so happy that somebody in government has the courage to stand up to this abuse of our 4th amendment rights. Thanks Rep. Barbieri!!!
Your all screwed up....I have been flying 4 times a year since tsa was instituted and never had a problem. The problem is you get people like you reading these comments and they get all worked up and the when they do fly they go to the airport with an attitude and that is when problems start....the pat downs are NOT invasive whatsoever and these agents find all kinds of things that do not belong on a plane.
@Dan Garrett, it's very nice to know that your patdown was not invasive, but mine met the FBI's definition of rape. A screener inserted a foreign object inside my body when she shoved a hand held metal detector way, waaayyy too far up my skirt. This kind of filthy sexual abuse is par for the course at TSA. There is no circumstance that could ever justify treating innocent travelers like dangerous prison inmates. Get a warrant, TSA, or get your perverted hands out of my pants.
So some people think "it doesn't happen to me, therefore there is no problem." That's how we got into this mess to begin with.
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