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'Feds radiating Americans'? Mobile X-ray vans hit US streets
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 9:47 am
by AlphaDoG
I mean WTF. I'm about to move to Russia.
Christian Science Monitor wrote:
"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
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 10:35 am
by 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.
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 2:44 pm
by 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.
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 2:46 pm
by null0010
Cool, now I get to Faraday cage everything I own.
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 2:57 pm
by Grendel
^ won't change a thing.
Sounds like a 4th amendment violation to me.
Re:
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 3:05 pm
by AlphaDoG
Lothar wrote: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
Re:
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 3:42 pm
by null0010
Grendel wrote:^ 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?
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 3:57 pm
by 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.
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:02 pm
by Heretic
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:04 pm
by AlphaDoG
I think it has to do with lead based paint.
