• This is a political forum that is non-biased/non-partisan and treats every person's position on topics equally. This debate forum is not aligned to any political party. In today's politics, many ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. Often we find ourselves agreeing on one platform but some topics break our mold. We are here to discuss them in a civil political debate. If this is your first visit to our political forums, be sure to check out the RULES. Registering for debate politics is necessary before posting. Register today to participate - it's free!

Proposed Law Would Criminalize ‘Misuse’ of Full-body Scanner Images

Travelsonic

DP Veteran
Joined
Jul 14, 2006
Messages
1,390
Reaction score
328
Gender
Undisclosed
Political Leaning
Centrist
[linky]

"Two Democratic senators have proposed a law that would make it a federal crime to “misuse images” recorded by the Transportation Security Administration’s full-body scanners.

Sens. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) offered the legislation as an amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration’s reauthorization bill currently before the Senate.

According to a press release from Schumer’s office, the law bars any person with access to scanned body images — whether TSA employees or members of the public — from photographing or distributing those images. It carries penalties of up to one year in prison, and as much as $100,000 in fines.."
 
Ya gotta wonder why they have actually pass a law to make this illegal.
 
I would like to see a law that criminalizes the use of a full body scanner without a warrant seeing how it violates the 4th amendment.
 
[linky]

"Two Democratic senators have proposed a law that would make it a federal crime to “misuse images” recorded by the Transportation Security Administration’s full-body scanners.

Sens. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) offered the legislation as an amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration’s reauthorization bill currently before the Senate.

According to a press release from Schumer’s office, the law bars any person with access to scanned body images — whether TSA employees or members of the public — from photographing or distributing those images. It carries penalties of up to one year in prison, and as much as $100,000 in fines.."

That's great news, and thanks for the post. My first reaction, though, is that one year isn't long enough. Not near long enough.
 
Fastest way to test this would be to talk Sarah Palin into going through a scanner and the next day the image would be on MSNBC and on the front page of most News Papers.
 
Fastest way to test this would be to talk Sarah Palin into going through a scanner and the next day the image would be on MSNBC and on the front page of most News Papers.

Darned liberals just can't stop talking about Palin.
 
Liberals are sexually aroused by Sarah Palin and it makes them angry.

lolpalin.jpg
 
Should have seen that coming, really. I must be slipping in my old age.
 
The body scanners are just expensive corporate technology and plans to implement it were in the works long before the underwear bomber. Did you see how fast that **** rolled out after the failed bombing hit the news? It was like instant. These things are never accidents. A lot of money is at stake. Your tax dollars to their pockets.

The scanners are a joke anyway because people will still hide things in their bodies. If an organized terrorist group wants to bomb your flight for real, then there is not much you can do. Contrary to popular belief they are far from stupid.
 
The body scanners are just expensive corporate technology and plans to implement it were in the works long before the underwear bomber. Did you see how fast that **** rolled out after the failed bombing hit the news? It was like instant. These things are never accidents. A lot of money is at stake. Your tax dollars to their pockets.

The scanners are a joke anyway because people will still hide things in their bodies. If an organized terrorist group wants to bomb your flight for real, then there is not much you can do. Contrary to popular belief they are far from stupid.

It's all so damned stupid anyway. terrorists could start bombing subway systems, ocean liners, trains, bridges, etc, if they wanted to.

I think they only do the plane thing occasionally, and perhaps muffing it deliberately, is to screw up air travel, make everyone look foolish, and remind people of terrorism without actually having to commit it.

What fools we are to put up with this airport craziness.
 
It's all so damned stupid anyway. terrorists could start bombing subway systems, ocean liners, trains, bridges, etc, if they wanted to.

Then the fed will just setup security checkpoints in those places. After the gasing of the Tokyo subway system, they setup metal detectors at train entrances. Same thing in Thailand where there were bomb threads in the metro. Don't think the government won't always rise to the occasion cause it will.

I think they only do the plane thing occasionally, and perhaps muffing it deliberately, is to screw up air travel, make everyone look foolish, and remind people of terrorism without actually having to commit it.

What fools we are to put up with this airport craziness.

Well, you raise a good point which is that terrorism now doesn't even have to appear in the forms we're used to. We just need false flag attacks to signal government to increase security and restrict freedoms further, not actual attacks. The attack now is gradually from government itself.

The problem is that we give up freedom too quickly. People often say that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance but that's just a platitude these days. Do people really get it anymore? Freedom isn't something the government provides to you, it's something that you are willing to live with. It means that you continue taking flights even though there is a small chance that yours might be the one that a terrorist is on. It means that you acknowledge guns as tools and not these violence making machines that are inherently evil, and you live with them even though there could be crazies that go on shooting rampages.

Freedom means risk and if you want it, you will never be completely safe. That's just how it is. But yeah, I don't think people really get it anymore. We're either too complacent or we're too far removed from the fight to maintain it, or something. Whatever the reason, people don't understand freedom.

My grandparents understand freedom way more than my generation does. They came here on a boat during WWII when London was in flames and their house had been blown up. They were on ferries coming across the Atlantic while u-boats were blowing up other ships in the water all around them. Their captain turned off their boat's engine and everyone cowered in silence hoping that their boat wasn't hit. My grandmother was giving birth to my oldest aunt in a cupboard while her small town was being bombed by zepplins. My grandparents love the U.S. even today because of what it means to live out most of your days in relative peace, but you know, even they see that the tide is slowly turning.
 
The American left has really become disgusting, and it's ruining the country.

Oh come one, you can't take a joke :roll:

And Jet is Canadian :prof
 
Back
Top Bottom