{"id":11826,"date":"2012-10-21T14:50:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T21:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=11826"},"modified":"2012-10-21T14:50:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T21:50:21","slug":"reasons-not-to-get-too-excited-when-tsa-decides-to-do-something-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/21\/reasons-not-to-get-too-excited-when-tsa-decides-to-do-something-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons not to get too excited when TSA decides to do something “good”"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was some cheering on the Intertubz when the TSA announced it was removing those infamous Rape-o-scanners<\/a> from airports.<\/p>\n

Okay, muted cheering. Very. Muted. Cheering.<\/p>\n

Europe banned the Rape-o-Scans earlier this year and this was just the TSA’s belated acknowledgement of what everybody else already knew: that the x-ray scanners are potentially dangerous, ludicrously prone to false alerts<\/a>, and offensive as all get out.<\/p>\n

Um, well, not exactly. They say it’s solely because the machines were slowing up their probing, poking, and stealing.<\/p>\n

So, did they send them back to Rapiscan and demand a refund? Is anybody investigating Michael Chertoff’s lobbying company for bamboozling the taxpayers?<\/p>\n

Naw, don’t be silly. The TSA is just moving the Rape-o-Scanners to smaller airports. I mean, after all, who gives a damn if the hicks from the sticks get radiated? And no doubt bored TSA agents in those -ville sort of places need the laughs they’ll get from peeping at less-than-toned rural bodies.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, and city airports will still use snoopy millimeter-wave machines. Whose health impact is still an unknown.<\/p>\n

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But of course, that’s just business as usual. If you really. And I mean really. Really, truly, as in this will turn your stomach. Want to see why it’s never<\/i> time to rejoice about the TSA or its Big Daddy, the DHS, appearing<\/i> to do something good, it’s because you know they’re always up to something like this at the same time:<\/p>\n

Via Wendy<\/a>, comes the news that<\/a> …<\/p>\n

A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser\u00ae. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal, Inc. website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers (video also shown below).<\/p>\n

This bracelet would:<\/p>\n