[ RadSafe ] Airport Body Scanners

[Perle, Sandy]

First, if anyone on this list is proficient at profiling those who may harm us, then there are some viable security consultant jobs available for you. My opinion is that everyone should be screened. There is nobody I would consider to be exempt from a security check. It used to be that only young men blew themselves up, now it's women. Age isn't the issue. If one wanted to circumvent a system, what better way than to test the system and then benefit from it, sending older white American Grandmothers through a system with s bomb strapped to their body, or wheelchair, etc. First Class travelers generally pass through gate checks easily. Another opportunity for anyone with a little common sense to play the system. One only needs to get in an aircraft cabin and blow a hole in the fuselage. It's been tried at least twice now. Do we really want to wait until someone is successful?

Like Ken, I travel quite a few airline miles each year, 132,000 last year to be exact, and already 30,000 miles this year (I'm currently attending the IM 2010 Meeting in Athens. I would like to get home safely, and without having to think about some moron with a religious belief who believes that only those who believe as they do, have the right to live. Therefore, I expect governments to protect not only their citizens but those who travel through their country, and take every measure feasible, preferably actions that work and are not just to demonstrate that they are taking actions.

Regards,

Sandy

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-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Peterson, Ken
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:06 PM
To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] RadSafe Digest, Vol 239, Issue 1

Mike,

I take exception to point (1).  Air travel is not a privilege; if you
can pay the fare and don't have a bombmaking background - you have every
right to fly - and not be hassled in the process.  I fly 75K miles per
year, and I resent tax dollars wasted in creating bigger bureaucracies
and money pits like the TSA who give authority over me to those who
don't deserve or earn it.

I believe frisking 80 year old ladies before they get on the Burbank to
Phoenix flight is stupid and futile.  I am tired of countless delays,
removing shoes, packing my nail clippers, arriving at the airport two
hours before a flight to stand in endless security lines.  I welcome
these scanners if they are unobtrusive and one can briskly walk through
them without delay.

While I think international flights are another matter, for domestic
travel, arming the pilots and armoring the cockpit door is all the
security we need.  Once the goal of using the plane as a guided missile
is thwarted, and the only possible result is killing 100 passengers and
a dozen people on the ground instead of killing thousands and destroying
visible landmarks - the risk to reward ratio goes way down, and the
terrorists will look elsewhere for targets.

Ken Peterson
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