more on Doctors warn of health risks in new airport security rules

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
Date: August 10, 2006 8:00:05 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: lauren () vortex com
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Doctors warn of health risks in new airport  
security rules


Dave,

We already know that TSA is considering x-raying passengers to see
through their clothes ("don't worry, we won't look at the naughty
parts, and a little extra radiation won't hurt a bit!").  Who knows
what sorts of deeper intrusive inspections might come next?

I used to get chuckles when I'd suggest (I thought tongue-in-cheek)
that the only sure way to establish the best possible (though still
imperfect) security when flying would be to fly the passengers
separate from any and all baggage, and chain those passengers hand
and foot naked to their seats.

This doesn't sound as funny anymore.  Perhaps there's a TSA study
group already working along these lines (Warning: Be sure that your
18 USC 2257 record keeping requirements are in order!)

Seriously, reasonable security measures are one thing.  Stopping
active terrorist plots before they can reach fruition is to be
praised on high.  But triggering this kind of overreaction is a
significant part of the terrorists' agenda in the first place.
Bin Laden may be laughing himself sick if he knows what's going
on at U.S. airports today.

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren () vortex com or lauren () pfir org
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR
   - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
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> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Brad Templeton <btm () templetons com>
> Date: August 10, 2006 7:24:47 PM EDT
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Cc: ip () v2 listbox com
> Subject: Re: [IP] Doctors warn of health risks in new airport
> security rules
>
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:50:03PM -0400, David Farber wrote:
> > http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2296564
>
> "The TSA has said that parents must drink their babies' formula to  
> prove
> it's not tainted."
>
>
> Ok, so if I'm a suicide terrorist,  ready to blow up myself, the
> baby and the plane, I'm going to balk at drinking some peroxide
> or other toxic item in a baby formula bottle?  As long as it's not
> going to burn my mouth or kill me within 2 hours this test is
> pointless and humiliating.  (It's often not formula, but expressed
> mother's milk, which while safe to drink is not something people
> expect to be forced upon them.)
>
> What's next, bladder inspections?  Because while it's not
> particularly pleasant, you can store lots of fluid in there,
> and with an inflatable catheter you could even do it without
> contamination.   You don't care about the safety of it, of
> course.  You're planning to die, after all.
>
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