[nfb-talk] {Disarmed} FW: Disability.gov Air Travel Update: A Letter to the Disability Community from Kimberly Walton, Special Counselor, Transportation Security Administration

[T. Joseph Carter]

I will say that the information contained in the letter about what 
the scanners see is an outright lie.  These scanners can see womens' 
products in use, and provide clear body details.  Half a dozen cancer 
researchers are also warning that repeated exposure to these things 
should be considered carcinogenic.

As part of the new TSA screenings, that organization routinely argues 
that they have the right to seize your mobility device (cane, leg 
braces, whatever) and send you through their screening procedures 
without them.  This is not something they “might” do, it’s something 
they have already done—evidence caught on video.

If you protest you will be subjected to invasive security screening 
procedures.  Leaked emails detail that these procedures are intended  
to be intentionally demeaning and humiliating, to make an example of 
dissenters and ensure that NEXT TIME, you will shut up and do as you 
are told.

Do not attempt to record, videotape, or otherwise provide a record of 
how you are treated.  At least, your recording device will be 
confiscated.  At worst, you will be arrested.

Refusal to comply with these diktats will result in an $11,000 fine, 
your arrest, or both.

In order to quell public opposition to these on “national opt out 
day”, the TSA disabled their scanners and did not perform the 
sexually explicit “pat-down” procedures last Wednesday.  The 
procedures will continue, however.  Current plans are to begin 
rolling out the same procedures for travel by bus or train.  These 
scanners are presently only in use for those randomly selected to 
undergo “additional” security procedures, but this is primarily 
because they do not have a large enough installed base of scanners to 
begin requiring all passengers to use them.  That will change, and 
indeed there is discussion about how wonderful these things would be 
in places where any crowd gathers, such as shopping malls.

Have a nice flight,

Joseph


On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 04:21:13AM +0000, S Baker wrote:
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>Subject: Disability.gov Air Travel Update: A Letter to the Disability Community from Kimberly Walton, Special Counselor, Transportation Security Administration
>Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:22:29 -0600
>To: srbaker12 at hotmail.com
>From: disability.gov at service.govdelivery.com
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>A letter is attached to this email, in PDF and Word formats, from Kimberly Walton, Special Counselor at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).  The letter provides information about TSA screening procedures, including the use of Advanced Imaging Technology and "pat-downs."
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