El Paso Airport, along with other cities, now has body scanners to check us out before we board our planes - a little extra radiation to add to our "well-being". Do I hear any howls out there from the public that was so worried about government in the health care business? They screamed bloody murder when debates waged on health care reform; implying we could not trust the government to run a health program.
So - now we can trust the government? The TSA makes pronouncements on how little radiation is emitted - (from the TSA medical school? TSA Graduate School of Physics?) And the TSA is monitoring these scanners? Just how much radiation are they giving off - how well calibrated are they, etc. Heaven help us.
Sure, we're bombarded with radiation all the time and even more so when we fly at high altitudes. What's the tipping point? Who decides that something is harmless now? Ten years down the road when illness due to that extra "tiny" bit of radiation strikes - will the TSA say oops?
Oh yes - check out financial/consulting interest in scanning equipment company - a client of former Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff. It's that good old axiom again: follow the money.
I'll give TSA a cheap thrill and let them pat me down, thank you.
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