What has America become?

SOURCE: Kenneth Taylor (taylork021@Hawaii.rr.com)SUBHEAD: TSA, DHS plan massive rollout of mobile surveillance vans with long-distance X-ray capability, eye movement tracking and more.By Mike Adams on 6 March 2011 for NaturalNews - (http://www.naturalnews.com/031603_surveillance_police_state.html)Image above: X-ray image of people "hidden" in passing truck. From Forbes article linked

Media piles on to TSA problems

SUBHEAD: Nation's leading federal policy newspaper reports on calls for revamping of airport checkpoint system.By Anne Kornblut & Ashley Halsey on 17 December 2010 for Washington Post - (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/16/AR2010121606216.html)Image above: TSA Crash. From (http://gizmodo.com/5696160/why-the-tsa-could-lead-us-to-public-rebellion-or-a-terrorist-attack).

TSA Radiation Exposure

SUBHEAD: TSA field agents have reason to worry about their safety. Not from the public but from radiation exposure.By Alison Young on 6 December 2010 for USA Today - (http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2010-12-06-tsa-xray-inside_N.htm)Image above: A rather unhealthy TSA agent stands next to backscatter x-ray machine/ From (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2631515/posts).When

No Bail for Julian Assange

SUBHEAD: Sweden's "Sex by Surprise" is heart of case against WikiLeaks Julian Assange who is in London in jail without bail.By C. Vinograd & R. G. Satter on 7 December 2010 for the AP - (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/julian-assange-arrested-w_n_792956.html)Image above: Julian Assange and accuser, Ann Ardin in mash-up graphic on web. From (http://javabutik.com/wikileaks-sex-scandal-case

WikiLeaks faces Cablegate heat

SUBHEAD: It's pretty sad when Pravda is lecturing the US on free speech, tolerance and respect for human rights.By Steve Ragan on 4 December 2010 in The Tech Herald - (http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201048/6505)Image above: Julian Assange on the cover of Time Magazine. From (http://www.time.com/time/covers/europe/0,16641,20101213,00.html)It’s been a long week for the whistle-blowing

Real Airport Security

SUBHEAD: Current TSA procedures are invasive and ineffective. There are better ways to achieve safety.Video above: "Real Airport Security" need sniffer dogs. CNN Report from (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMlDVLlAEUU).By C. Peril on 30 November 2010 for The Daily Kos - (http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/11/30/923752/-TSA-male-agents-target-female-travellers-(w-poll))Up to now, TSA has

Wikileaks diplomatic cable results

SUBHEAD: The WikiLeaks diplomatic cables are small revelations that may cause a big idea to take hold.Image above: Wreckage of US tanks, hummers, and personnel carriers. From (http://forums.cadetstuff.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=14868).By Arianna Huffington on 30 November 2010 for Huffingon Post -(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-wikileaks-cables-smal_b_790158.html)Let's start

Porno-Scanner X-Ray Danger

SUBHEAD: Review of the TSA X-ray backscatter body scanner safety report: hide your kids, hide your wife.Image above: This X-ray pin-up girl is just pixels. Not so TSA victims. From (http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/09/x-ray-pin-up-girls-are-just-pixels). TSA X-Ray BackscatterBy Jason Bell on 22 November 2010 in My Helical Tryst - (http://myhelicaltryst.blogspot.com/2010/11/

TSA Threatens Tourism

SUBHEAD: Even before these new security procedures were implemented potential tourists were already staying home.Image above: Empty airport baggage carousels.By Staff on 22 November 2010 for End of the American Dream - (http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/will-tsa-groping-destroy-tourism-in-the-united-states)One of the things that has not been considered in the debate over the horrific new

Many choose driving & not flying

SUBHEAD: Record 92% of travelers choose not fly. Millions driving. TSA blinks in face of We Won’t Fly and Opt Out Day campaigns.Image above: Still of TSA agent groping a traveler from video below.By George Donnelly on 24 November 2010 for We Won't Fly - (http://wewontfly.com/record-92-of-travelers-choose-to-not-fly)There are also reports that the TSA started dialing back its security theater last

Who was the 'Underwear Bomber'?

SUBHEAD: The inconsistent background on Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab and faulty reasoning on the need for naked body scanners.Image above: Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab as a teenager. From (http://www.businessinsider.com/shoddy-software-let-underwear-bomber-on-plane-2010-1).By Tom Burghardt on 4 January 2010 i Dissenting Voice - http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/01/

TSA Humiliations

SUBHEAD: Stories of humiliations and TSA madness during airport pat-downs.Image above: Nazi soldiers directing Jewish "travelers" to their trains heading to concentration camps. From (http://www.blueheronpix.com/deliver_us_from_evil).By Staff on 19 November 2010 for UK Daily Mail - (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331346/

Resistance to Porno-Scanners Increasing

SUBHEAD: Pilot takes daughter through security. Overhears TSA officer say to coworker 'Heads up, got a cutie for you.'Image above: Have we come to this? A Playmobile playset of a TSA airport intimidation. From (http://airlinenightmare.com/blog/?p=3061).By SWFA (Pilot) on 13 November 2010 in Flytalk.com -(http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-safety-security/1147497-

Don't Scan Me, Bro!

SUBHEAD: Protests continue to mount over safety and privacy of new airport scanners.Image above: Detail of the original Xray-Specs comic book ad. From (http://chawedrosin.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/x-ray-specs/).By by Richard Knox on 12 November 2010 for NPR.org - (http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/11/12/131275949/protests-mount-over-safety-and-privacy-of-airport-scanners)It's because of a

Pilots Reject Full Body Scanners

SUBHEAD: World’s pilots reject naked body scanners over issue of radiation danger and privacy breach.Image above: Mother to put daughter thru scanner in Amsterdam. From (http://www.overoll.com/Content/Detroit-terror-attack-hesitation-over-x-ray-scanners-risking-lives-/2009/12/31/143395.news).[Editor's note - Passengers through American airports can reject, "opt out," of the potential health