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Ground based terrorists don't need to go through a backscatter machine....
That doesn't explain the inconsistency between your statement and the observed history of terrorism in the U.S.
Ground based terrorists don't need to go through a backscatter machine....
That doesn't explain the inconsistency between your statement and the observed history of terrorism in the U.S.
Well we all clearly know your stance on this topic....
My stance is that there is no reason to believe that "all terrorists are Muslims." Anything beyond that is an assumption on your part.
And that 1, 10, and 30 additional cases are too many considering the chance of a terrorist blowing up the plane I'm on. As the data is hotly debated, by some that share credentials equal to yours, why not get rid of the machines? It's an additional reason, besides the 4th amendment intrusions, and the benefit analysis mentioned earlier.Quite pertinent.
If a threshold exist (which is the hotly debated issue), then very low level exposures like the backscatter scanner or a single transatlantic flight are inconsequential. If we believe that the experience of populations who were exposed to millions of times the doses and dose rates in the atomic bomb explosions and the experience of displaced war refugees radiated for head-lice can be linearly scaled down to that level of a backscatter scanner, then we have to worry about 1, 10 or maybe 30 additional cases of cancer in a country of 300million.
Ok, we will play your game......... not "all" just 99.965 % are.
Sorry, I just can't stop myself from pointing out a famous exception when someone states a generalization in absolute terms.
I agree that it is probably a high percentage, but I hope you're not proposing to eliminate all scrutiny of non-Muslims.
And that 1, 10, and 30 additional cases are too many considering the chance of a terrorist blowing up the plane I'm on. As the data is hotly debated, by some that share credentials equal to yours, why not get rid of the machines? It's an additional reason, besides the 4th amendment intrusions, and the benefit analysis mentioned earlier.
If I believed that they are truly the solution to the security problem, I really wouldn't have a problem with them, radiation or no radiation.It really sounds like you are defending the x-ray backscatter machines.
This is what I said:
But then I see the the somali cleaning crew in Minneapolis board the aircraft and really scratch my head. Here are folks who came to this country a year or two ago, often still have family and allegiances in this terrorism infested hellhole and the airlines think its a great idea to use them for a low paid job in a security sensitive environment .