The Audacity of authoritarianism

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/08/24/full-body-scan-technology-deployed-in-street-roving-vans/

Oh don't mind the street roaming vans with full body scanners on them. It's for your protection. You can never know who could be carrying a nuclear warhead in their pants

[Don Coyote]

This kind of thing fills me with the desire to inflict vigilante style justice upon this decay institution.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGAIJVk1028

Video selling them.

[Jasper]

Wait.  The backscatter machines at airports couldn't pierce skin, and so were deemed 'safe'.  These x-rays pierce car doors.  Are these safe?

There isn't any word of it at all.

[Jasper]

From Defense Industry Daily, a source that is probably sympathetic to AS&E, the manufacturer:

Questions have also been raised re: the health risks to those scanned, which may well be ignored in situations of war or insurrection, but become a live issue when proposed as an requirement for popular activities like airline travel.

Which is as good as acknowledging that people should worry.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/better-than-x-rays-the-z-backscatter-scan-van-04276/

Note:  That select quote was the first and final word of any kind of health concern.  No confirmation or denial as to whether it might actually be safe.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

This is dildoes!

[Persona Facade]

It's alright we do not have thought police yet.

Also...did anyone else notice how many bottles were in the example scan of that van?

[Pæs]

I can't wait until this is an available filter on Google Maps.