TSA Images On the Internet

Why You Can't Ever Believe the Government
When Janet Napolatano told us that Homeland Security was going to use body scanners at all airports she promised that we had nothing to worry about. The images taken by TSA workers would NOT be saved or used for any other purposes except airport security. We were told that they would be deleted immediately. That was a LIE!

Gizmodo.com Publishes TSA Images on the Net!
So here we are looking at gizmdo.com viewing images taken by TSA officials at a public airport showing naked people in all their wonder. WOW, so much for Napolatano's promises and government propaganda.

This website obtained these images from the Freedom of Information Act. They were taken at Orlando International Airport and have been illegally distributed to the world! Nice huh?

What This Proves
The leaking of these photographs indicates a few things. First, you cannot believe the government. According to the TSA—images from the scanners are "automatically deleted from the system after it is cleared by the remotely located security officer." That's an obvious lie!

Second, these images tell us that the government employees do NOT take the law seriously. Why else would they want to save photos and share them with others? For what purpose? This is OUTRAGEOUS!

Third, there are serious security breaches taking place at ALL airports that use these machines. If these images are being "stolen" from the airports, this represents a security breach by the EMPLOYEES trusted to use these machines. How can we trust them after these breaches hit the Internet? We cannot.

Government "Nudge" Tactic
Of course, if you do NOT want to have your image taken you have the alternative choice of having a full body search, performed totally in public, in front of other passengers. This is a Cass Sustein method of "nudging" you into having you image taken instead of being humiliated in public by the body search.

What is the government doing here? Isn't this UNREASONABLE SEARCH AND SEIZURE?

Cloward and Piven Strategy
The day before Thanksgiving is the busiest day at all airports in the USA. Thanksgiving week is one of the busiest times for all US airports. Some bright-minded individuals have proposed using the Cloward and Piven technique to "Nudge" TSA and let them know that you do NOT like their intrusions that really don't prevent terrorism. IN FACT, their screening technics have NEVER prevented a terrorist act. All they do is inconvenience air travelers.

Opt Out - a Protest?
Travelers scheduled to use the airports at Thanksgiving are being encouraged to "Opt-Out" from using the invasive (and not too private) full body scanners. Many individuals are planning on bogging-down the system by overloading it on purpose. How? Simply by requesting a body search instead of using the airport scanners. This should overload the TSA workers and slow-down the lines of people who are being forced to use the new scanners.

Will you become one of these protesters? Why subject yourself to TSA's indignities when TSA should be scanning all luggage and packages instead? In any event, plan on arriving early, because the lines will be longer than usual! Maybe you can help "nudge" the government back into a more sensible behavior pattern.