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In reply to the discussion: Opting out of the airport body scanner "cancer machine" [View all]FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)117. So if the airport scanners ARE a cancer machine, there might be something to the X-Ray WMD?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/20/justice/new-york-x-ray-plot/
Feds nab KKK member, accomplice for lethal X-ray plot
New York (CNN) -- Two New York state men have been charged in a bizarre plan to develop a mobile X-ray system that would be used from afar to silently kill people that they deemed "undesirable," federal officials said.
Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, and Eric J. Feight, 54, were arrested Tuesday after an undercover operation by the Albany FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. They were charged with conspiracy to provide material support for use of a weapon of mass destruction, according to the criminal complaint.
Crawford and Feight were developing a device "intended to be mobile ... designed to turn on remotely from some distance away" that would emit "some dangerous levels of X-ray radiation," according to John Duncan, executive assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York.
Individuals who might have been "subject to this X-ray radiation, would not immediately know that they had been harmed until some days later when they would either be injured, or it could result in their death," he said.
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I was reading that it is technically not feasible. But what you are saying makes me wonder.
Feds nab KKK member, accomplice for lethal X-ray plot
New York (CNN) -- Two New York state men have been charged in a bizarre plan to develop a mobile X-ray system that would be used from afar to silently kill people that they deemed "undesirable," federal officials said.
Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, and Eric J. Feight, 54, were arrested Tuesday after an undercover operation by the Albany FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. They were charged with conspiracy to provide material support for use of a weapon of mass destruction, according to the criminal complaint.
Crawford and Feight were developing a device "intended to be mobile ... designed to turn on remotely from some distance away" that would emit "some dangerous levels of X-ray radiation," according to John Duncan, executive assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York.
Individuals who might have been "subject to this X-ray radiation, would not immediately know that they had been harmed until some days later when they would either be injured, or it could result in their death," he said.
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I was reading that it is technically not feasible. But what you are saying makes me wonder.
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Are you talking about them actually touching your body or waving a wand around you?
davidpdx
Jun 2013
#41
Lol, you haven't been keeping up with things. If you refuse, no matter how pleasantly, the TSA
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#104
There have been reports of people being made to feel as if they are being sexually assaulted.
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#118
The dosage you receive from a backscatter machine is significantly less than from flying...
Gravitycollapse
Jun 2013
#15
Apparently you didn't read the article, or even notice the quotation marks around "cancer machines".
Quantess
Jun 2013
#17
I'm starting to think you confused a news article with a university study.
Gravitycollapse
Jun 2013
#75
I don't consider it drivel. As a 2x cancer survivor who has had waaay more x-rays and CT scans than
MotherPetrie
Jun 2013
#129
It might actually not be clear that I did not write the article, I don't know.
Quantess
Jun 2013
#37
What is your particular defect? Increasingly attempting to insult my screen name is childish.
Thor_MN
Jun 2013
#76
I take it that you still are in favor of gratuitous radiation, in the name of security theater.
Quantess
Jun 2013
#122
The problem is that many other people are reading this, and they don't all agree.
Quantess
Jun 2013
#128
Sorry Brainiac, you are the one arguing a pointless case. Try deflecting some more.
Thor_MN
Jun 2013
#130
I've proven you wrong so many times, it boggles the mind that you claim you got anything right.
Thor_MN
Jun 2013
#137
So in order to understand this, you need the additional weighting factor for the particular organ.
Pholus
Jun 2013
#103
Not ANSI, but the revolving door between DHS and the manufacturers for sure. nt
Pholus
Jun 2013
#115
The millimeter wavelength body scanners emit non-ionizing radiation and are not "cancer machines."
Gravitycollapse
Jun 2013
#3
Are backscatter's still being used? I haven't seen one in a long time. Although I don't travel much.
Gravitycollapse
Jun 2013
#6
I thought flamingdem was saying they are radio waves "as opposed to" radiation
Recursion
Jun 2013
#49
*facepalm* To avoid radiation, he goes through higher-radiation metal detectors.
Recursion
Jun 2013
#42
How can you not trust the machines that the nice Michael Chertoff sold to us?
Ian David
Jun 2013
#58
"In May, TSA chief told Congress all Rapiscan full body scanners had been removed from US airports"
ucrdem
Jun 2013
#98
So if the airport scanners ARE a cancer machine, there might be something to the X-Ray WMD?
FrodosPet
Jun 2013
#117