You may be aware of the continuing
controversy over the NAKED BODY SCANNERS being installed in airports
nationwide.
Among the issues raising the hackles
of the public are;
DHS repeatedly and provably lieing about the
capabilities of the devic es to store and transmit images.
Privacy concerns surrounding the nude images of
passengers produced by these devices.
Health and safety of the devices
You might not be aware of lawsuits
over using prisoners and visitors to correction facilities undergoing forced
submission to the body scanners;
Prisoners forced to submit to radiation
experiments for private foreign companies
Regulations at 28 CFR §§ 512.11 and
512.12 prohibit the government from using inmates for this type of
experimentation and require them to give both the inmates and the public notice
of their intent to use inmates as test subjects as well as all of the possible
effects related to being subjected to any such experimentation " and then only
on a voluntary basis. See also Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 551(4)
and 5 U.S.C. § 553(b)-(d).
Despite the clearance of some CT
scanners (Rapiscan), the FDA’s website shows that no data has ever been
presented to the agency as to the safety of these devices and states that it
has never approved these devices as being safe because “some Food and Drug
Administration officials were worried that full-body CT screening scans
(Rapiscans) ‘may be exposing thousands of Americans to unnecessary and
potentially dangerous radiation’ and that CT scans of the chest delivered 100
times the radiation of a conventional chest x-ray … between .2 to 2 rads of
radiation during a single scan.” See, e.g., Virtual Physical Ctr-Rockville,
LLC v. Philips Med. Sys., 478 F.Supp.2d 840, 842-43(D. Md. 2007) and “FDA
Raises Body Safety Issue” by Marlene Cimons in the Los Angeles Times, June 5,
2001.
What I am almost positive that you
are not aware of is that in 2001 this type of technology and others was tested
on 8th graders in Oklahoma Public Schools.
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June
6, 2001
Quantum Magnetics, Inc., a wholly
owned subsidiary of InVision Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: INVN), and Owasso
(Oklahoma) Public Schools signed an agreement, joining in a cooperative effort
to improve school security and remove the threat of weapons on school grounds.
The agreement calls for the two parties to cooperate in acquiring and analyzing
concealed weapons detection data and developing security system deployment
strategies.
. . . In 2000, Quantum engineered
its passive weapons detection sensors into a commercial product. Unlike metal
detectors, this technology combines high detection probability with an image
showing the precise location of the weapon. In addition, it can be configured
to scan -- inconspicuously -- large numbers of people at entrances of public
buildings such as schools and courthouses.
Hearing about the technology's
promise earlier this year, Mr. Dale Johnson, superintendent of the Owasso
School District, contacted Quantum Magnetics to inquire into the status of
the research.
. . .Hearing about the technology's
promise earlier this year, Mr. Dale Johnson, superintendent of the Owasso
School District, contacted Quantum Magnetics to inquire into the status of
the research. In response, Quantum Magnetics' President and CEO, Dr. Lowell
Burnett, visited Owasso to discuss the company's plans for testing the
company's sensors in a school environment. The first of a series of
tests were recently completed at the Eighth Grade Center in Owasso, Oklahoma,
and Quantum's scientists and engineers are currently analyzing the data at
their research facility in San Diego.
. . .Quantum develops and
commercializes promising technologies such as quadrupole resonance (QR),
magnetic resonance (MR), low-cost magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and
magnetic tensor gradiometry (MTG).
As a parent, I am livid! There
will be MUCH more to come on this issue. In the meantime, Oklahoma
parents should be contacting their school districts and asking some questions.
Oklahoma School Districts
