[ RadSafe ] Airport Body Scanners

[Franz Schönhofer]

Dear Doug,

I am really delighted to read your comment. 

The USA never have experienced anything that Europeans have during the last
hundred years. No war on their territory, not that terrible "iron curtain".
Vienna is about 60 km away from Bratislave, the capital of Slovakia. In
earlier days (during the monarchy) there was a tram running between the two
cities. After WWII we needed to apply for a visa to go there. Now after the
new rules of the European Union we simply drive across the border without
stopping. The same is true for the Czech Republic, for Poland, for Romania,
Hungary etc etc. Great! We tear down borders within Europe and the USA
creates new ones??? If border control suspects me that I am a Taliban, they
are welcome to search me for concealed weapons. I swim naked on beaches
where it is customary and I can choose to do it, but I would not parade
naked in front of some "scanners" being forced to. Is "Dignity" a word
forgotten and eliminated by the US administration? Again, where is the "land
of the free"? 




Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
MinRat i.R.
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Wien/Vienna
AUSTRIA


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Von: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] Im Auftrag von Doug Huffman
Gesendet: Dienstag, 09. März 2010 13:32
An: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
Betreff: Re: [ RadSafe ] Airport Body Scanners

On 3/8/2010 23:06, garyi at trinityphysics.com wrote:
> Hi Clayton
>
> Do you really stand behind all of this?  No statements here that you might
withdraw, on
> second thought?
>
> -Gary
>
  Be careful. "Safety is the first act of security theater and the 
tyrants tool because no one can be against safety."  We must be mindful 
here on the radiation health physics safety discussion list.

I stand with Clayton.  I am also ever mindful of the need to write out 
United States of America to differentiate the state from the continent, 
and the cultures.

Doug Huffman
Washington Island
Wisconsin
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