Somebody on this forum said it wasn't gonna happen...

[Patriot]

They also inferred that they were privy to some special insight on the subject.  I just hope that this article opens some eyes.  The government is NOT your friend (or nanny, or mother, or father, or father confessor).  Our founders knew this and wrote a constitution that was designed to limit government.  Many of our citizens either forgot or were never properly taught that basic US history fact.  Since the majority of US schools and teachers are government employees (read: unwitting agents), I'm betting on the latter.  Should we contact government officials en masse yet?  Or is it still to soon?  Inch by inch.  So for what it's worth.....


Docs Reveal TSA Plan To Body-Scan Pedestrians, Train Passengers
Forbes Online
Andy Greenberg
The Firewall
Mar. 2  2011 - 6:05 pm

Giving Transportation Security Administration agents a peek under your clothes may soon be a practice that goes well beyond airport checkpoints. Newly uncovered documents show that as early as 2006, the Department of Homeland Security has been planning pilot programs to deploy mobile scanning units that can be set up at public events and in train stations, along with mobile x-ray vans capable of scanning pedestrians on city streets.

The non-profit Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) on Wednesday published documents it obtained from the Department of Homeland Security showing that from 2006 to 2008 the agency planned a study of of new anti-terrorism technologies that EPIC believes raise serious privacy concerns. The projects range from what the DHS describes as "a walk through x-ray screening system that could be deployed at entrances to special events or other points of interest" to "covert inspection of moving subjects" employing the same backscatter imaging technology currently used in American airports.

Read the entire, sickening article here: http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/03/02/docs-reveal-tsa-plan-to-body-scan-pedestrians-train-passengers/

[Teresa]

Sickening is right.. Scary as hell is the next thing I would say.