More Hope & Change… Feds Are Now Using Mobile X-Ray Vans On U.S. Streets (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 8:42 PM
More hope and change…
The Obama Regime Administration is not only forcing travelers through naked body scanners, they’re bringing the X-ray scanners into your neighborhood, too.
The Department of Homeland Security says the vans have been a huge asset at the nation’s ports and borders, and at major crowd events like the Super bowl.
FOX News reported on the X-ray vans last month.
Privacy advocates worried about x-ray scanners making their way around U.S. airports may be surprised to know the technology is also making its way onto America’s streets.
The Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. military and even local law enforcement agencies are buying and deploying mobile X-ray vans that can see into the interior of vehicles around them.
The Z Backscatter Van (ZBV), manufactured by American Science and Engineering (AS&E), can be used to detect contraband such as car bombs, drugs and people in hiding.
But the vans, which can also see through clothing and into some buildings, are raising privacy concerns as well as questions about health risks — and what might happen if the technology gets into the wrong hands.
FoxNews.com was given a rare ride-along in a ZBV at a U.S. seaport in Elizabeth, N.J.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) wrote letters to President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and Transportation Security Administration administrator John Pistole, last month complaining about the van scans.
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bigL commented:
they were using this technology in Calif. the police were driving dn the street and x-raying houses. they were looking for heat signature,iirc, that would show a meth lab or a hydroponic pot installation. Hold on said he courts, no probable case and told em ,no more.
I bet that would still stand and could be used to throw it out. at least in calif. But they are all in the tank for obama…never mind…H/t Roseann Roseannadanna
Granny commented:
I do not have any objection to the use of this technology at our ports. Checking all those hundreds of thousands of containers is a very real problem.
I have a HUGE problem with this being used on the streets of the United States of America. Warrantless searches, exposing the public to unknown amounts of radiation without even telling them.
Those who would trade Freedom for security deserve neither! Ben Franklin, Poor Richard
bg commented:
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when they are ready to make their move on US (gun
ban) they want to know exactly where to find them..
ipso facto: i can’t possibly imagine what they would be saying
if GEORGE WALKER BUSH even thought of doing this.. *sigh*
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Zilla of the Resistance commented:
Great, they’ll give us all cancer every time we leave the house to go anywhere and then we can get euthanized under obabmacare.
Dear God help us.
Conservative Ken commented:
Surveillance technology that is made public is always at least a generation behind actual capabilities. We’ve always known/suspected the Government has VAST information gathering abilities. Most of us never thought it would be used against the public at large in a free republic.
I hope I don’t sound like a tinfoil hat type, but the U.S. Government has the ability to do what the USSR could only dream of.
Rob commented:
And this technology isn’t being used at our southern border… because of??
Granny commented:
Yeah, I was thinking about it awhile back, watching a film about the Bielski Brothers, who ran one of the biggest partisan groups in Eastern Europe. They saved more people than Schindler did, would literally walk into the ghettos and walk out with people. Hid in the huge forests.
You would never get away with that these days. Planes and satellites that can spot and identify heat signatures from miles up, vans that show exactly where your guns are, scanners that produce a permanent “fingerprint” of your entire body, cars equipped with OnStar that can be shut off remotely.
I think that is what disturbs me so about those bracelets I posted about yesterday. So we acquiesce to these bracelets that can identify you, locate you by GPS, track your every movement around the airport, trace your luggage – and knock you unconcious if somebody in power decides you’re making trouble. What if they don’t take them off? Mini versions of this are already in use on our children you know – this generation of children wouldn’t think once about putting on a bracelet that will trace & control their every move.
Mark Adams commented:
This is a clear violation of our 4th Amendment rights… but it doesn’t surprise me none with Socialist-n-Chief.
Granny commented:
#8 November 23, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Mark Adams commented:
This is a clear violation of our 4th Amendment rights… but it doesn’t surprise me none with Socialist-n-Chief.
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It is starting to look like we don’t have any Fourth Amendment Rights anymore – maybe not any rights at all anymore.
donh commented:
Violation of privacy rights aside. My primary concern is the US government subjecting the human population without our knowledge or consent to Xray type devices that have unknown side effects to our physical and mental health. We did this in the pacific islands exposing native populations to radioactivity and exploiting these innocent human beings as lab rats.
gus commented:
Just as long as they don’t spy on Muslim Terrorists making international phone calls to the U.S.
That would be wrong.
Restore The Republic commented:
The Fourth Amendment is dead. The Ninth and Tenth are virtually gone. We no longer have property rights. How long will we endure the systematic dismantling of our Constitutional Republic?
Restore The Republic commented:
Bush is just as much an enemy of the Constitution as Obama… two words… “Patriot Act”.
Both parties are compromised and utterly corrupt. How about a recent example…
Last week, all but a couple of Republicans voted to support a bill which would have covered up the mortgage fraud committed by the big banks. Ex-post-facto laws are UNCONSTITUTIONAL, yet the bill had to be defeated by the DEMOCORPS.
We need to wake up!
Taqiyyotomist commented:
#7 Granny
Bracelet?
Do you carry a cellphone?
If there’s a ‘they’, ‘they’ gotchyer co-ordinates.
Already.
Granny commented:
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#14 November 23, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:
#7 Granny
Bracelet?
Do you carry a cellphone?
If there’s a ‘they’, ‘they’ gotchyer co-ordinates.
Already.
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Not entirely true. They can find your coordinates but that is a little different than tracking your every move – a lot different actually. And I can always simply throw my phone out the window, leave it behind, give it to the bum on the corner. That tracking bracelet they are talking about, the wearer could not get that off. If you could take it off yourself it would be useless.
gus commented:
#13. You don’t appear smart enough to notice the difference. Bush didn’t spy on US, he spied on them. If you cannot discern the difference in character between Bush and Obama, you might be retarded.
Opus#6@AmericanPerspective commented:
Our forefathers predicted this. The gov’t needs a warrant.
gus commented:
This particular government has no respect for the rule of law. NONE. Obama thinks the CONSTITUTION is Wrong.
IT IS THE CONSTITUTION. IT CANNOT BE WRONG. But it can be changed.
bg commented:
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Restore #13
i agree to a certain extent in that the old Reps are the New Dems,
however, the old Dems are the new Progressives, BIG difference..
btw, the following makes no sense..
[Last week, all but a couple of Republicans voted to support a bill which
would have covered up the mortgage fraud committed by the big banks.
Ex-post-facto laws are UNCONSTITUTIONAL, yet the bill had to be defeated by the DEMOCORPS.]
got a link to clear it up??
thanks..
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Granny commented:
#13 November – the Patriot Act was actually written during the Clinton Administration as was the plan for Homeland Security and TSA. They were simply dragged out of mothballs in a big fat hurry after 911 and Bush takes the blame.
bigL commented:
Of course the US can’t use the heat signature to detect the flow of power and water into the ground for Iran’s under ground nuc installations
—”we dont know where they are”…what can we do, Miss Scarlett, what can we do?
bg commented:
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Restore #13
re: Patriot Act
[The PATRIOT Act was no dramatic departure from existing legislation. Indeed, its key provisions were incorporated from an anti-terrorism measure that had been passed by Congress and signed into law by former President Bill Clinton five years earlier: the "Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996," which was a response to Timothy McVeigh's April 1995 bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 175 innocent people.]
Obama Administration Quietly Expands Bush’s
Legal Defense of Warrantless Wiretapping /09
Obama Seeking To Make Patriot Act More Abusive /10
links @ link..
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gus commented:
What about the Patriot act is in any way like “loving, touching and squeazing” my Granny at LAX?
What about the Patriot act had the govt. scanning my home or vehicle without any cause.
What about the Patriot act kept the Mexican border as open as Paris Hilton’s legs.
Opaobie commented:
You realize that this technology, the vans, the airport scanners, all of these 4th-Amendment violating contraptions, were bought using “Stimulus” money, don’t you? They are buying even more of them, too, and they will be deployed at every public transportation entry and exit in the country, maybe even at malls and sports venues…but NOT at the Southern border. The Statists steal our money and our property and use it to further enslave us. The Republicans had best get to work come January, and the establishment Country Club RINOs had best get out of the way. The primaries for the 2012 POTUS job had best not be a repeat of the shell game and “insider trading” that produced John McCain as the GOP candidate. The time to engage is NOW…or there may not be a next time.
Jean commented:
I hope the new congress taking over in January can reverse Obama’s agenda.
Restore The Republic commented:
#19 – Linky: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/we-won-bill-retroactively-immunize-mortgage-fraud-defeated?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29
Restore The Republic commented:
#16 – The character of the man is not the issue. The Patriot Act is fundamentally unconstitutional, regardless of who sits in the Oval Office.
Restore The Republic commented:
#22 – Link? The quote is inaccurate nonetheless… the Patriot Act cannot be reconciled with the Constitution, Obama’s additions not withstanding.
Face it folks, the Republicorps won’t save you. Right wing, Left wing – two wings of the same bird. Our government has become a corporate, fascist state, completely OWNED by global corporate interests.
We need to re-boot!
Restore The Republic commented:
This article, from last winter, ought to clear it up for you…Wall Street owns most of the Dems AND Repubs and previously Wall Street previously was very bi-partisan in its bribing of congress and presidential candidate…but because Dems bowed every so slightly to pressure from the people in the slight reforms and curbs they passed in the last two years…. currently, Wall Street feels like they get the most for their money from Repubs…
Cantor’s statement in bold about sums it up:
“…In discussions with Wall Street executives, Republicans are striving to make the case that they are banks’ best hope of preventing President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats from cracking down on Wall Street.
GOP strategists hope to benefit from the reaction to the White House’s populist rhetoric and proposals, which range from sharp critiques of bonuses to a tax on big Wall Street banks, caps on executive pay and curbs on business practices deemed too risky….”
“I sense a lot of dissatisfaction and a lot of buyer’s remorse on Wall Street,” said Rep. Eric Cantor (R., Va.), the second-ranking House Republican and a top Wall Street fund-raiser for his party.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703575004575043612216461790.html?KEYWORDS=cantor+buyer%27s+remorse
Lindsey Lohan commented:
Are they radiating people as they drive along? Since they can see through people’s clothes as they walk down the street (and have no idea that either this nor the fact that they are being irradiated is even happening), then I’m sure there’s no potential for abuse here, correct? I mean, they won’t be finding ways to drive past pretty girls and children, right?
Now, Dingbat Napolitano wants to use these at train and bus stations.
Liberals, YOU voted this jackass into the White House! THIS is what you get! I never want to hear about loss or rights or Bush or the NSA again!
Restore The Republic commented:
From Yahoo News: SOME GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS EXEMPT FROM TSA SCREENINGS
By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Eileen Sullivan, Associated Press – 1 hr 18 mins ago
WASHINGTON – Cabinet secretaries, top congressional leaders and an exclusive group of senior U.S. officials are exempt from toughened new airport screening procedures when they fly commercially with government-approved federal security details.
Aviation security officials would not name those who can skip the controversial screening, but other officials said those VIPs range from top officials like Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and FBI Director Robert Mueller to congressional leaders like incoming House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who avoided security before a recent flight from Washington’s Reagan National Airport.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_airport_security_vips
Congress exempt from ObamaCare
Congress exempt from TSA Screening
Seems like congress makes rules that apply only to the unwashed, the American people, and they need not comply. Wake up and smell the tyranny.
Chippy commented:
Instead of making the economy better, obozo is abusing it too make government bigger. Stop this commie jackass!
bg commented:
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Restore #26
H.R. 3808
[Apr 27, 2010: This bill passed in the House of Representatives by
voice vote. A record of each representative’s position was not kept.
Sep 27, 2010: This bill passed in the Senate by Unanimous
Consent. A record of each senator’s position was not kept.]
summary
[9/27/2010--Passed Senate without amendment. (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Interstate Recognition of Notarizations Act of 2010 - Requires each federal and state court to recognize any lawful notarization occurring in or affecting interstate commerce which is made by a notary public licensed or commissioned under the laws of a state other than the state where the court is located. Requires such a notarization to: (1) use a seal of office as symbol of the notary public's authority; or (2) have the seal information, in the case of an electronic record, securely attached to, or logically associated with, the electronic record so as to render the record tamper-resistant.]
oh yeah, they bad, wanting to make things all legal & stuff…
Nov 17, 2010
hey i’m no lawyer, but i read it the opposite,
ergo, i’d like to buy a clue, anyone?? Bueller??
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Restore The Republic commented:
#33 BG – this bill was an attempt to cover the fraud committed by the banks with the bundling of mortgages and the derivatives, mortgage-backed securities that resulted from their fraud. They never got legal, notarized docs on those mortgages. So, the banks committed illegal, fraudulent acts and wanted Congress to make a post-facto law to cover the asses. This is unconstitutional. The bill failed but ~98% of the Republicorps voted to cover the bankers fraud.
bg commented:
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Restore #29
that’s dated February 4, 2010..
a lot has changed since then..
Democrats target Wall Street as new Election 2010 bogeyman
[This cycle has had more than a few – think
China, demon sheep, and even witchcraft.]
how’d that work out for them?? look, if Wall Street
collapses, so does just abiur everything else, hello??
if you don’t thinks Obama has friends on
Wall Street then i’ve a bridge to sell you..
Obama finds room for lobbyists
The White House deal with Big Pharma undermines democracy
President Obama’s Wall Street Friends All
Benefit From The Democrats’ Bailout Bill
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bg commented:
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re: 35
and that was just a sample of much more, besides Wall Street goes
with the flow, Dems in power.. that’s where the money goes.. Reps,
samo samo.. ie: from 9/29/09:
Less than a year into Democrats’ dominance
of Washington, money is following power.
this short little ditty was a fun read..
[Democratic groups have made waves by accusing the Chamber of using foreign money to help pay for ads supporting Republican contenders — a contention the business lobbying group flatly denies and that various analysts have concluded is a shaky one.
In the background, though, the Chamber has endorsed about two - dozen Democrats it considers “pro-business,” perhaps lending them a hand as they try to distance themselves from their own party’s congressional leadership — and sometimes their president — in campaign rhetoric.]
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bg commented:
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Restore #34
don’t read none of that here..
[Interstate Recognition of Notarizations Act of 2010 - Requires each federal and state court to recognize any lawful notarization occurring in or affecting interstate commerce which is made by a notary public licensed or commissioned under the laws of a state other than the state where the court is located. Requires such a notarization to: (1) use a seal of office as symbol of the notary public's authority; or (2) have the seal information, in the case of an electronic record, securely attached to, or logically associated with, the electronic record so as to render the record tamper-resistant.]
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bg commented:
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Restore
aah, just for the heck of it..
this too..
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Andreas K. commented:
From my understanding they can’t search my car without a warrant, and using this thing on my car is, effectively, searching it.
Well, apart from being totally unconstitutional…
This thing would only really work if you had one or two on every street corner. Given how large the US is… it’s redundant.
Restore The Republic commented:
BG… you’re right… the Republicans will save us. LOL
bobdog commented:
I see stories being floated that Homeland Security needs to add passenger screening to train and public transit. I see Homeland Security bragging that they’re randomly X-Ray scanning vehicles. I read this morning that a bill has been introduced to give Homeland Security the authority to create a Cyber Security department and give them control over the tech industry. I fully expect that TSA will be given authority to screen patrons of large sporting events and any other place where large groups of people congregate.
In the meantime, our southern border is wide open, and the federal government has no serious interest in actually controlling illegal immigration. ICE and the immigration courts choose not to prosecute almost all deportation cases, while a drug war rages just south of the border.
I wonder if somebody here could explain this apparent anomaly?
bg commented:
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Restore #40
what are you talking about Republicans saving US?
you haven’t read many of my posts have you..
that said, in any case..
i was discussing the ISSUE, not the Reps or the Dems, hello??
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Ed commented:
“these machines are safe since they only emit a low dose of radiation….” said the TSA. all cell phones and their towers use low dose micrawave radiation which permeates our surroundings and with the advent of multiple transmitters within cell phones the amount of “low dose” microwave radiation has increased exponentially. now we have low dose radiation for those who fly and will most likely be a permanent fact of traveling life. so, for those that are getting away from an increase dose of radiation via airports, the government is now going to administer low dose radiation in our streets, where ever we may be.
low doses taken every single day amounts to a large dose in a year. where are the long term studies by the government that proves that all of these low dose radiation is safe? while it’s true that x’rays given by doctors and hospitals are somewha harmless since it’s just a couple of times a year and your body recovers in between x’rays, how does the body cope with doses of radiation every couple of hours (or minutes) every single day, every year, for the remainder of our lifetime? where’s the long term study on this again?
while the virtual scrapping of our 4th amendments rights are very troubling, the health effects of these “low dose” radiation is flying under the “radar” and the effects will not be know until maybe a generation from now. will we have lower birth rates, increase instances of cancer, lower metabolism since low dose radiation can affect thyroid glands which controls it, or what?
The government loves to give the “low dose is safe” argument but the effects will never be known. it seems, no one will escape it though.
Ed commented:
by the way, this technology is being used by US customs in scanning cargo trucks. I know a truck driver that changed careers since he was going through x-ray machines up to twice a day and kept being told that it’s safe. again, there are no guarantees that these low dose radiation are indeed safe especially if you get these doses multiple times per week.
Listen up commented:
Successful on the border? Really? I doubt it. They most likely do not even use them on the border. Just in white neighborhoods and at NASCAR.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
bg,
I just reread the thread.
“Restore” is the only person here talking about right/left and Party labels.
The rest of the commenters are talking (just as we were during Bush) about the Issues.
hmmm….
wtd commented:
Examining this from another angle, what physical protections are provided for the techs conducting these scans? When you have x-rays taken at a dentist or radiological office, the tech steps clearly out of the room when each individual scan is taken. In some cases, a protective lead apron is placed on areas of the body which may be otherwise unnecessarily subjected to scattered rays. Given the amount of time each tech is present beside the unit conducting the scans, one would think such exposure is quite cumulative — and potentially dangerous. If anyone reading this can offer more information about this . . .it would be beneficial to all involved.
USFC physicians also raise some serious concerns. . .
http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2010/05/17/concern.pdf
Zilla of the Resistance commented:
Gateway Pundit’s excellent coverage of these latest insane outrages has prompted me to contribute my own rant to the discussion, for anyone who may be interested:
http://politizilla.blogspot.com/2010/11/gate-rapes-and-radioactive-nudie-pics.html
The Underground Conservative commented:
“Restore” is the only person here talking about right/left and Party labels.”
He keps using the word “Republicorps,” a word associated with MorOn.org and featured as part of MorOn.org’s astroturfed protests during the campaign.
I think it’s safe to presume “Restore” is part of MorOn.org and as such not worth engaging in intelligent discussion of issues. All they know how to do is rant using talking points and buzzwords.
dwd commented:
Blasting Americans with radiation at airport security, blasting Americans with radiation on the streets… it will be interesting to see what kind of health problems develop from all this additional exposure.
Did you know that back in the day they would even use x-rays at the shoe store??? You’d put your feet in some new shoes, and they’d x-ray your feet to see if the shoes fit right (instead of the ol’ thumb press of today). Needless to say, a big public health problem developed from excessive and frivolous use of x-rays and they’re no longer used for something so silly as a shoe fitting.
What kind of shortened lifespans and mutant children can Americans look forward to in the coming generations due to this Big Brother x-ray blasting of everyone and everything, everywhere?