'Feds radiating Americans'? Mobile X-ray vans hit US streets

[AlphaDoG]

I mean WTF. I'm about to move to Russia.

"This really trips up the creep factor because it's one of those things that you sort of intrinsically think the government shouldn't be doing," says Vermont-based privacy expert Frederick Lane, author of "American Privacy." "But, legally, the issue is the boundary between the government's legitimate security interest and privacy expectations we enjoy in our cars."

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0929/ ... US-streets

[Krom]

WTF indeed. I could sort of understand this if they were responding to a specific car bomb threat at some location, but just doing it because you can is not an acceptable justification.

[Lothar]

And to think, for years we've had people whining that \"the TSA has secured the airports, but we still haven't secured our ports or shipping.\"

Be careful what you wish for.

[null0010]

Cool, now I get to Faraday cage everything I own.

[Grendel]

^ won't change a thing.

Sounds like a 4th amendment violation to me.

[AlphaDoG]

And to think, for years we've had people whining that "the TSA has secured the airports, but we still haven't secured our ports or shipping."

Be careful what you wish for.

We saw how good the TSA have secured the airports as witnessed last Christmas in Detroit. I suppose we should feel better due to the ineptitude of said TSA, but, personally, I don't.

Wonder if the, "I was walking around town naked so as to assuage* Homeland Security" defense would hold up in court.


*to soothe, calm, or mollify

[null0010]

^ won't change a thing.

Sounds like a 4th amendment violation to me.

Well, it'll still be fun. So, how would one stop this xray backscattering? Lead paint?

[AlphaDoG]

Isn't lead based paint outlawed in the U.S.?
Studies in the 60's and 70's found that kids eating lead paint chips tended to develop an I.Q. below moronic.
Which explains me.

[Heretic]

Short memories here on the DBB

http://descentbb.net/viewtopic.php?t=17361

[AlphaDoG]

I think it has to do with lead based paint.