The failure to inform the public of this given the controversy surrounding the
machines is a major oops by DHS in my view --- and that YahooNews quote about
the "world we live in now" makes me want to wretch. But the sheep won't mind.
-- rick
Full Body Scanners At Super Bowl 2012
First time devices linked with cancer risk used for public sports event
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Thursday, February 2, 2012
http://www.infowars.com/full-body-scanners-at-super-bowl-2012/
Fans attending the 2012 Super Bowl on Sunday will face a new level of security
in addition to pat downs before they are allowed to enter the Lucas Oil Stadium
– full body x-ray scanners.
According to WPRI.com News reporter Matt Touchette, despite a congressional
demand for an investigation into the machines following health concerns, the
scanners will be part of the security set up in Indianapolis this weekend,
marking the first time that the controversial devices have been used for a
public sporting event.
“I was out for a stroll with the intention of snapping some photos for our blog
when my travels took me to Lucas Oil Stadium of all places,” writes Touchette.
“It was there that I stumbled upon a temporary Patriots street sign put in
place close to the site of Super Bowl XLVI (appropriately). I then found myself
walking into the side gates of the stadium, through intense security which
included full body scanners and then down the tunnel onto the field.”
Although Super Bowl authorities and Homeland Security have announced that pat
downs and bag searches will be part of security procedures before the game,
they have failed to properly inform the public that x-ray body scanners, linked
with cancer risks by numerous prestigious health bodies, will also be in use.
Hailing “the most technologically protected Super Bowl,” Frank Straub,
Indianapolis’ director of public safety, said that “X-ray machines” would be
used throughout the stadium, but didn’t specify whether this referred to
devices that scanned bags or people.
Senator Susan Collins, ranking Republican on the Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee, yesterday introduced a bill that would require
an independent study of backscatter x-ray scanners, following the TSA’s
about-face on a decision to test the machines. The federal agency also
backtracked on a promise to test TSA workers themselves for radiation exposure
last month.
Numerous studies conducted by prestigious universities and health authorities,
including Johns Hopkins, Columbia University, the University of California, and
the Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety, have warned that the x-ray
scanners will lead to an increase in cancers.
Johns Hopkins’ biophysics expert Dr Michael Love warned that, “statistically
someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays,” after conducting a
study of the naked body scanners.
The Lucas Oil Stadium will be surrounded by a security perimeter that fans will
have to clear before they even get to the stadium itself.
“There will be a security perimeter around the stadium through which all fans
must pass before entering the gate,” reports Yahoo Sports, adding that fans
should not feel “self-conscious about getting patted down” because “this is the
world in which we live now.”
As well as pat downs, bag searches and full body scans, fans are again being
encouraged to text in reports of “suspicious activity” to Homeland Security
officials.
Trucks making deliveries to the stadium will also be forced to pass through a
vehicle x-ray scanner, technology that is now being introduced at US border
checkpoints and on regular highways with little regard for the health risks
involved.
Last year, the NFL announced its new policy would be to conduct pat downs of
all people entering stadiums nationwide, a measure required as a result of
NFL’s partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.
Homeland Security is also developing technology to be used at “security events”
which purports to monitor “malintent” on behalf of an individual who passes
through a checkpoint. The promotional video for the program explains how
“Future Attribute Screening Technology” (FAST) checkpoints will conduct
“physiological” and “behavioral” tests in order to weed out suspected
terrorists and criminals.
The clip shows individuals who attend “security events” being led into trailers
before they are interrogated as to whether they are terrorists while lie
detector-style computer programs analyze their physiological responses.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the
author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The
Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
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