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It is already happening! It is being reported that actor Shah Rukh Khan autographed printouts of his own body scanner image for airport workers at London's Heathrow airport. This is yet more proof that images of our exposed bodies are not "immediately deleted" once we walk through the controversial new full body scanners that are being installed in airports all over the world. So what will happen when people start smuggling images of celebrities out and start posting them all over the Internet? How would you feel if someone took your body scanner image and started posting it all over the Internet? This is a very big deal. The truth is that this is the end of the world as far as airport privacy is concerned.
"I was in London recently going through the airport and these new machines have come up, the body scans. You've got to see them. It makes you embarrassed - if you're not well endowed."
"Then I saw these girls - they had these printouts. I looked at them. I thought they were some forms you had to fill. I said 'give them to me' - and you could see everything inside. So I autographed them for them."
Is this what we have become?
Is this what we have to do to feel "safe" from terrorism?
What a sad day this is.
So what do you all think about this?
Are you ready for twisted airport officials to print out full body scans of you and your family and post them on the Internet?
Or should we all just get over it and be willing to laugh about it and autograph the images like the actor from India did?
It's a brave new world that we live in, and our humanity is slowly being stripped away from us.
The Christmas Day terror scare has reignited the debate over new airport security scanners that show security officers a very graphic image of the exposed bodies of every single passenger passing through a security checkpoint. These new scanners reveal everything. Yes, we know what you are thinking. Everything means everything. So far they have only been installed in a handful of airports. Now advocates are clamoring for them saying that they are absolutely vital to national security. In fact, they say that these new "next generation" scanners would have detected the explosives sewn into the underwear of a Nigerian man who tried to blow up his flight over Detroit on Christmas Day. However, critics of the new technology are skeptical and say that other less intrusive methods would be just as effective and are warning that by allowing the government to look at our naked bodies we are losing our basic human dignity.
Right now the scanners are being utilized at a handful of U.S. airports, including Salt Lake City and Los Angeles International. The Transportation Security Administration previously announced that it planned to install 150 of the scanning machines for primary security screenings at airports across the United States, but the program has been slowed down due to privacy concerns.
So why the concerns?
Well it turns out that these new scanners reveal extremely detailed graphic images of the exposed bodies of airline passengers. These scanners even reveal intimate medical details such as colostomy bags and mastectomy scars.
Who wants an airport security screener to see that?
But former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff told the New York Daily News that it is time to quit worrying about privacy concerns and that the installation of the scanners is needed as soon as possible.
"Privacy advocates and the ACLU have slowed or stopped the deployment of the machines with a barrage of objections," Chertoff told the New York Daily News in an email. "The bad guys have figured out this vulnerability. Isn't it time we deployed these machines?"
Several airline passengers interviewed by the Daily News seem to agree with Chertoff....
"I don't mind [the scanner] because it would be in place for safety," said Samantha Day, 44, who flew into Kennedy Airport from London.
"It's no more invasive than someone touching every part of your body" during existing patdown security procedures, added Marni Blitz of Robbinsville, N.J.
But the truth is that many privacy advocates would like to see these new scanners banned. They say that these new airport scanners are so incredibly accurate that that they produce better quality images of your exposed body than a high quality magazine photograph would.
So if you would feel uncomfortable posing for Playboy, then you would really feel uncomfortable with the level of detail you would be exposing to one of these machines.
The reality is that these new scanners produce the closest thing that you can get to viewing a person's exposed body without actually seeing their skin.
For example, Cheryl Johnson, the general manager of the Office of Transport Security in Australia, had the following to say about the intrusive nature of these scanners: "It will show the private parts of people, but what we've decided is that we're not going to blur those out, because it severely limits the detection capabilities."
Up until now, the TSA has insisted that there would be measures in place to prevent security workers from gawking at the exposed bodies of passengers all day long, but the reality is that there are no laws or regulations that limit how the TSA uses these body scanners - only policies that the TSA "chooses" to adopt. Any policy that they "choose to adopt" can be quickly discarded later.
And now after this latest episode with "the underwear bomber", there can be little doubt that homeland security officials will insist on seeing what is inside all of our underwear.
Isn't that wonderful?
So get ready for the new reality of airline travel in 2010 - where you have to let security officials look at your entire exposed body just to get on a flight.
If this is the "new America", it certainly does not seem as much fun as it was before.
And it certainly leaves us with a whole lot less dignity.
Radical Islam is on the march inside the United States. At the same time that the U.S. government is spending billions trying to dig Islamic radicals out of basements and caves in Iraq and Afghanistan, radical Islam is making dramatic strides inside the United States and nobody seems to care much at all. Not only has a brand new mosque been constructed just steps from Ground Zero in New York City, but now there are reports of Islamic child weddings in Nashville and of a network of militant Islamic training compounds across the United States that appear to operate with impunity.
New Mosque Just Steps From Ground Zero
A brand new mosque has been constructed just steps from where the World Trade Center towers fell on September 11th, 2001. It resides in a five story building that is just two blocks north of the former World Trade Center site that used to hold a Burlington Coat Factory. Now the plan is for the mosque to become a major Islamic cultural center.
No matter how this is spun, the reality is that this building will be viewed by many as a symbol of the triumph of Islam out of the ashes of 9/11. It is also a symbol of how powerful the Islamic movement has become in the United States. 30 years ago you could barely find any mosques at all in the U.S. Today, Islam has become such a force that a prominent mosque stands just feet from where the World Trade Center towers used to stand.
Islamic Child Weddings In Nashville?
Pamela Geller over at Atlas Shrugs has posted some shocking audio-only videos that were given to her by a confidential source. They reportedly reveal the content of conversations inside the Al-Farooq mosque in Nashville, Tennessee. In the videos, a little girl is speaking, and in them she says that she is seven years old. She mentions Shelbyville, Tennessee (where the mosque is) and complains about how the teachers hit the children there. In the final video that Geller features, the little girl refers to "my husband".
In her article, Geller also posted a portion of an interview with Dave Gaubatz, the Director of the Mapping Sharia Project and the owner of DG Counter-Terrorism Publishing. Gaubatz has done an extensive investigation of the Al-Farooq mosque and is convinced that polygamy and child marriage is going on there....
FP: Do Islamic leaders distribute material in America encouraging Muslim men to violate U.S. laws in regards to ‘polygamy’ and to force children (6 -16 years old) to marry older men?
Gaubatz: Yes. Al Farooq has these materials and polygamy is being practiced.
But will anything be done about all of this?
Probably not.
Militant Islamic Training Camps All Over The United States
The truth is that there is an entire network of militant Islamic training camps all over the United States. The U.S. government knows about them and yet allows them to operate with impunity.
The Christian Action Network has released a stunning video which shows militant members of the Muslims Of America participating in paramilitary training drills outside their compound in upstate New York, near the town of Hancock. Watch the video posted below and take note of what your gut reaction is as you watch it....
So who are the Islamic militants that are training in this video?
They come from an organization known as the "Muslims of America", which is the name that Jamaat ul-Fuqra uses inside the United States. Jamaat ul-Fuqra is a militant Islamic organization based out of Pakistan. In 2005, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that Jamaat ul-Fuqra has "the capacity to attack" the United States. They are also believed to have been directly involved in the beheading of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl.
But they don't just have a training camp in New York. They actually have a network of training camps that stretches from coast to coast. Apparently they have much more freedom to train Islamic militants than organizations in Iraq or Afghanistan do. So why is the U.S. government allowing this to take place? After all, isn't this the kind of "suspicious activity" that we were all supposed to be concerned about?
British War Memorial Defaced
But it is not just in the United States where radical Islam is on the march. A British war memorial was recently defaced with the following jihadist slogan: "Islam will dominate the world".
And Islam is dominating in many areas of the world. Even in nations that have been "liberated", violence against Christians is so severe that their very survival is threatened. For example, in the city of Mosul, Iraqi Christians say that Christians are being killed almost every day.
But radical Islam was supposed to have been defeated in that nation, right?
The truth is that radical Islam was not defeated in Iraq.
Rather, it is rapidly advancing in places such as the U.K.
The Times described the implementation of Sharia law in the U.K. this way....
The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.
What do you think the odds are that Sharia courts will treat domestic violence cases the same way that other courts in the U.K. will?
Since when do western nations allow religious courts to openly operate within their borders?
The truth is that everywhere you look radical Islam is making advances.
What do you think is going to happen when militant Islam gains even more power around the globe?
It will be a total nightmare for Christians.
The truth is that radical Islamic militants will never surrender, they will never quit and they will never back off. Radical Islam is growing stronger and it is on the march and it will not show any mercy to Christianity or to Christians.
It is already happening! It is being reported that actor Shah Rukh Khan autographed printouts of his own body scanner image for airport workers at London's Heathrow airport. This is yet more proof that images of our exposed bodies are not "immediately deleted" once we walk through the controversial new full body scanners that are being installed in airports all over the world. So what will happen when people start smuggling images of celebrities out and start posting them all over the Internet? How would you feel if someone took your body scanner image and started posting it all over the Internet? This is a very big deal. The truth is that this is the end of the world as far as airport privacy is concerned.
