TSA may have to explain Body Scanners in court and rules
Jul 16, 2015 14:12:48 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2015 14:12:48 GMT -6
Does everyone recall the day when we didn't have to be scanned to our skins (and beyond) just to enter the other half of an Airport?
Now we can even go wayyyy back to ancient times, and when early aviation was still finding its way. I was watching Die Hard (Part 1) the other day and it opens with the 'John McClain' character getting up to leave an airplane. His jacket swings open, exposing his gun. In the scene, it is a casual after thought and warranted nothing more than a quick comment about 'Don't worry..I'm a cop'.
That may even have been pretty close to accurate for the time I recall, if a cop's weapon were spotted that way at the end of a flight, tho I think seeing it before one would have gotten an odd look, even then. At least, if someone didn't have the subconscious vibes or appearance of being a cop. Die Hard was released in 1988, for context and time.
Hijacking for political purposes and outcomes began in the 60's, for how long that threat has been a constant. What changed..of course..was a few Hijacks terminating into standing structures. Put coldly, for simple historic terms...that is what made it different. Nothing more, and nothing less.
By that, we allowed things like the "naked body scanners", as some other net sources have come to describe them...and an apt description that is, too. We allowed them over soft protest, and bypassing most process our system requires.
The problem is.....in the rush to save us from (..what changed far more than it rightly should have with 9/11..), things like those scanners were IMPROPERLY deployed and used. (snaps fingers) I know.... aren't those regulations a real pain???
There are reasons I'm fairly worry free in life, despite what I "do for a living", and eventually WILL be doing for a paid living in researching, writing about and learning all aspects of (bad) news, and often, the bad sides of policy and outcomes across our nation. It is largely by what this story reminds us of.
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A lot of things have been done in a fast and loose way over the last 15 years, under the mandate given through fear. Things were done without following process, or...simply...law. Many people have written it off as being lost entirely now....but that sense of racing time and shortened timelines has all been part of the fear and drive which allowed this nonsense to happen.
No one....but no one..can stay at elevated readiness or at a high level of constant stress...forever. I think reality is starting to catch up, in what was always GOING to take years to happen. It always has and it always will, by the very nature of time, our legal system, and people getting weary enough to say...enough...and engage it to get some things addressed.
This isn't the first example, but it is a good one and they are becoming more common to see.
Now we can even go wayyyy back to ancient times, and when early aviation was still finding its way. I was watching Die Hard (Part 1) the other day and it opens with the 'John McClain' character getting up to leave an airplane. His jacket swings open, exposing his gun. In the scene, it is a casual after thought and warranted nothing more than a quick comment about 'Don't worry..I'm a cop'.
That may even have been pretty close to accurate for the time I recall, if a cop's weapon were spotted that way at the end of a flight, tho I think seeing it before one would have gotten an odd look, even then. At least, if someone didn't have the subconscious vibes or appearance of being a cop. Die Hard was released in 1988, for context and time.
Hijacking for political purposes and outcomes began in the 60's, for how long that threat has been a constant. What changed..of course..was a few Hijacks terminating into standing structures. Put coldly, for simple historic terms...that is what made it different. Nothing more, and nothing less.
By that, we allowed things like the "naked body scanners", as some other net sources have come to describe them...and an apt description that is, too. We allowed them over soft protest, and bypassing most process our system requires.
The problem is.....in the rush to save us from (..what changed far more than it rightly should have with 9/11..), things like those scanners were IMPROPERLY deployed and used. (snaps fingers) I know.... aren't those regulations a real pain???
The Transportation Security Administration is facing a new lawsuit for implementing body scanners before weighing in on public opinion or developing regulations for their use. The lawsuit would require the agency to come up with conclusive rules within 90 days, according to a press release.
There are reasons I'm fairly worry free in life, despite what I "do for a living", and eventually WILL be doing for a paid living in researching, writing about and learning all aspects of (bad) news, and often, the bad sides of policy and outcomes across our nation. It is largely by what this story reminds us of.
The new lawsuit was issued four years after an initial federal court ruling on July 15, 2011, which said that TSA is “legally required to publicly develop its body scanner regulation under the Administrative Procedure Act.”
In addition to the TSA using the scanners outside of regulation, CEI fellow Marc Scribner, questioned the effectiveness of the technology.
In addition to the TSA using the scanners outside of regulation, CEI fellow Marc Scribner, questioned the effectiveness of the technology.
A lot of things have been done in a fast and loose way over the last 15 years, under the mandate given through fear. Things were done without following process, or...simply...law. Many people have written it off as being lost entirely now....but that sense of racing time and shortened timelines has all been part of the fear and drive which allowed this nonsense to happen.
No one....but no one..can stay at elevated readiness or at a high level of constant stress...forever. I think reality is starting to catch up, in what was always GOING to take years to happen. It always has and it always will, by the very nature of time, our legal system, and people getting weary enough to say...enough...and engage it to get some things addressed.
This isn't the first example, but it is a good one and they are becoming more common to see.
