[IP] more on Doctors warn of health risks in new airport security rules
Begin forwarded message:
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 10, 2006 8:00:05 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: lauren@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Doctors warn of health risks in new airport
security rules
Dave,
We already know that TSA is considering x-raying passengers to see
through their clothes ("don't worry, we won't look at the naughty
parts, and a little extra radiation won't hurt a bit!"). Who knows
what sorts of deeper intrusive inspections might come next?
I used to get chuckles when I'd suggest (I thought tongue-in-cheek)
that the only sure way to establish the best possible (though still
imperfect) security when flying would be to fly the passengers
separate from any and all baggage, and chain those passengers hand
and foot naked to their seats.
This doesn't sound as funny anymore. Perhaps there's a TSA study
group already working along these lines (Warning: Be sure that your
18 USC 2257 record keeping requirements are in order!)
Seriously, reasonable security measures are one thing. Stopping
active terrorist plots before they can reach fruition is to be
praised on high. But triggering this kind of overreaction is a
significant part of the terrorists' agenda in the first place.
Bin Laden may be laughing himself sick if he knows what's going
on at U.S. airports today.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
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Begin forwarded message:
From: Brad Templeton <btm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 10, 2006 7:24:47 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Doctors warn of health risks in new airport
security rules
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:50:03PM -0400, David Farber wrote:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2296564
"The TSA has said that parents must drink their babies' formula to
prove
it's not tainted."
Ok, so if I'm a suicide terrorist, ready to blow up myself, the
baby and the plane, I'm going to balk at drinking some peroxide
or other toxic item in a baby formula bottle? As long as it's not
going to burn my mouth or kill me within 2 hours this test is
pointless and humiliating. (It's often not formula, but expressed
mother's milk, which while safe to drink is not something people
expect to be forced upon them.)
What's next, bladder inspections? Because while it's not
particularly pleasant, you can store lots of fluid in there,
and with an inflatable catheter you could even do it without
contamination. You don't care about the safety of it, of
course. You're planning to die, after all.
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