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  • TSA scanners and the US government and control - People need to know how far down the rabbit hole this goes

    Thank you for putting this informative video back up. Sorry for the length of this post but we need to be aware of just what is going on here. It has a number of layers which we need to explore and I have some new information for you as well. Please could you tell me if you deleted it yourself as the caption was suggesting or was it removed without your knowledge. I ask because there is a rising amount of censorship on YouTube. They do not like items that debate or disapprove of government policy. Yahoo apparently is taking a similar line and interestingly a few months ago I was looking for an answer to a question I had about body scanners on Google and I came up with the same question asked by someone on Yahoo. When I got to the question it had been removed by yahoo within hours of it being posted. Similarly when I looked up a question about the drab and ill-becoming royal wedding dress to see if anyone else agreed I came up with a Yahoo question asking the same thing and that had been deleted within hours. The US government is terrified of the alternative media and that people are going to start thinking for themselves and this is why they are so keen to change the system and censor the internet. Once people really begin to see what the game is the game will be over. If people do not understand what I am talking about I urge you all to look at this link and then do the necessary math.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0N0iqUiaTs

    These scanners are not about security, they are about control. This is one big psyop where they are using the shock doctrine to intimidate people into submission rather than thinking outside the box. People will respond in one of two ways, they will either be so shocked because they cannot believe their government would ever implement something like this that to relieve their cognitive dissonance they will by all manner of means try to convince themselves that really it is all ok and good clean fun. That will work for most people and one way or another they will eventually pay with either their mental or physical health or both. Others who are more clued up will see this for what it is and will do their research as you have done to validate what they first suspected. Those people will stay well away from the airports. For myself it is an incredible disappointment as I would love to visit all of my friends in America and spent time there for study purposes but I have come to accept that it is just not on for the time being besides which, do I really want to stay in a country that has revoked habeas corpus. Living in Britain the body scanners are installed at all major airports and currently if you are selected to be scanned then you either have to comply or lose your ticket. That is now likely to be revoked under the new proposed EU ruling which will also make the much more dangerous backscatter body scanners illegal and end compulsory scanning. There is also a new system in the wings though not coming any time soon (view it here http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/07/news/la-trb-checkpoint-future-iata-20110607) which will enable trusted travellers not to go through body scanners and the whole system seems to be much more dignified and stream lined than the current process. However, it will rely on iris scanning as the first security check and I am in principle opposed to all forms of biometric identification. This system still does not address 4th amendment issues and the point of law that one is innocent until proved guilty. Does one really want to trade any of ones liberty for a mere show of security? However the proposed system is far more civilized than what people have had to put up with so far.

    Everyone should realise that the airports are not secure, ie not ring fenced and in my opinion they are actually less safe now than they were. According to a YouTube video shown to Congress early this year there are horrendous security lapses within the airport complexes and it sounds as though staff vetting and security is almost non-existent. Airports are insecure on so many fronts not least the potential for surface to air missile attacks and attacks on the large groups of people waiting for security checks. You do not need to board a plane to launch a successful terrorist attack, TSA makes it easy for you to do it in a number of other ways. One of the best devices for explosives detection is the sniffer dog and since the body scanners cannot detect explosives because they are not visible on the machines, (apparently it is unlikely they would have detected the underwear bomber), and since the only mechanism that did has been removed it seems that we are less protected from explosives at the airport than we ever were. I find it equally incredible that as you point out in the video, the Israelis who are past masters at terrorist detection, pour scorn on these scanners saying that they are useless.

    I know many people are very upset about what is happening but you have to see this in the context of everything else on the government agenda. The go ahead for these machines came from Barack Obama. One call from him could stop all of this but someone from his socialist agenda and CIA background will not want a free-spirited, liberated American people. What he and his neo-con conspirators want is an America in total lockdown in a security grid and this is just one part of it. All of them want global government and the total centralization of all resources and business. Consequently we are moving from a capitalist to a corporatist environment where people like Michael Chertoff, former Head of Homeland Security (Homeland has Nazi connotations by the way, such usage of words is decidedly un-American), will have his aggressive lobbying rewarded with privileged contracts, no matter that the goods are useless for the task at hand. People should also be aware that the globalists have a mass population control agenda, note Bill Gates and his stated aim of reducing world population by mass vaccination. Knowing this and also knowing what radiation does to the human body, it is not unreasonable to ask oneself if there is another agenda here with these machines. People may not like me saying this but once you realize that there is fluoride in the water which makes you docile and ill and has nothing to do with preventing cavities, that the world has been sprayed for the past 10 years with chemtrails (see the film What in the World are they Spraying), that they are wanting to put lithium in the water which also makes you docile, that America and much of the world has signed up to Codex Alimentarius which denies people proper nutrition and medicine in the name of food safety see (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8MM3mLbd24I)I think you will see where I am coming from on this. People should also be aware that there is now a lot of research to indicate that the science on vaccination is flawed and that it probably does more harm than good. Modern vaccinations contain many alarming substances such as mercury and squalene, both of which are toxins to the human body and there is much evidence that vaccination causes all kinds of brain damage and illness. Just google the H1N1 vaccine and you will see what I am talking about.

    The American government seems to be at war both with the outside world and with its own people and everyone needs to wake up to this fast or face the consequences of a descent into fascism and a militarized police state. I know many people are very upset about what is happening but you have to see this in the context of everything else on the government agenda. The go ahead for these machines came from Barack Obama. One call from him could stop all of this but someone from his socialist agenda and CIA background will not want a free-spirited, liberated American people. What he and his neo-con conspirators want is an America in total lockdown in a security grid and this is just one part of it. All of them want global government and the total centralization of all resources and business. Consequently we are moving from a capitalist to a corporatist environment where people like Michael Chertoff, former Head of Homeland Security (Homeland has Nazi connotations by the way, such usage of words is decidedly un-American), will have his aggressive lobbying rewarded with privileged contracts, no matter that the goods are useless for the task at hand. People should also be aware that the globalists have a mass population control agenda, note Bill Gates and his stated aim of reducing world population by mass vaccination. Knowing this and also knowing what radiation does to the human body, it is not unreasonable to ask oneself if there is another agenda here with these machines. People may not like me saying this but once you realize that there is fluoride in the water which makes you docile and ill and has nothing to do with preventing cavities, that the world has been sprayed for the past 10 years with chemtrails (see the film What in the World are they Spraying), that they are wanting to put lithium in the water which also makes you docile, that America and much of the world has signed up to Codex Alimentarius which denies people proper nutrition and medicine in the name of food safety see (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8MM3mLbd24I)I think you will see where I am coming from on this. People should also be aware that there is now a lot of research to indicate that the science on vaccination is flawed and that it probably does more harm than good. Modern vaccinations contain many alarming substances such as mercury and squalene, both of which are toxins to the human body and there is much evidence that vaccination causes all kinds of brain damage and illness. Just google the H1N1 vaccine and you will see what I am talking about.

    The American government seems to be at war both with the outside world and with its own people and everyone needs to wake up to this fast or face the consequences of a descent into fascism and a militarized police state of which body scanners and various other types of assaults on people and their basic freedoms seems to be the first phase.

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    • Why ignore the US constitution

      What is happening is a consolidation and centralization of power, particularly around the President and away from the congress and states. This is not a conspiracy theory it is just happening is you look at the laws being passed and ignored. For example, the expansion of the Patriot Act, The Wars power act and the expansion of the power of the office of the President. The President is not a king.
      However, under the new laws and proposed laws, the President will be able to use government surveillance and even knock off US citizens under the expansion of the Patriot Act. That means if an US citizen is a suspect of being a ‘associated party with terrorists’ the US could send a drone after him and he is gone or something like that. New laws often use very vague language, which could mean anything. The is why Rand Paul was against the expansion of the Patriot Act. Even the name is phony. A real Patriot respects the US constitution, not over steps it in the name of the pubic safety.
      When someone says it is in the name of public safety, be aware of how many times this happened in the past and rights and freedoms were violated.

  • I totally agree with you and the idea that the authorities can detain anyone as an ‘enemy combatant’ or, as you say, assassinate someone is monstrous. The idea of habeas corpus being repealed and the militarization of the police where citizens are viewed as ‘civilians’ should be of concern to everyone, even non Americans.

    I have found a video today from We Won’t Fly and I hope that people will look at this because it covers all the main points about this really well, especially that this is not the way that a free society should be operating. http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/featured/prime-time/867432237001/we-wonrsquot-fly/987955920001
    There are other videos in the same series and I hope people will avail themselves of these educational masterpieces that explain so well why we should never submit to these invasive procedures. The rabbit hole is much deeper than you would ever think!

    Here is another one http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/featured/prime-time/867432237001/hands-off/987221545001
    One of the best quotes from it is where the host quotes Janet Napolitano as saying that people are not used to law enforcement patdowns to which he replies ‘well what sort of country would it be if they were’.

    Keep up the good work. Everyone who participates in this and related debates is doing the world a favour. We have to win this one!

    I have just looked at my post. I seem to have repeated paragraph 4, please could you delete it for me. I will pass on any new info if something ground breaking comes along.

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