you might want to google the "Nuremberg Defense" or even speak to an attorney.

This defense didn't work out to well for the Nazi's or more recently Sadam's baathists

For now on I will be carrying around about a dozen of these letters in my shoulder bag.

http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2010/05/17/concern.pdf

The next time any TSA clerk says "it's safe", or "trust us", or "I went through 25 hours of intense training" or any other BS line, simply pull one out of your bag, hand it to them, and say:

"This may be above your reading level but give it a shot. You just might learn something."

Printing them off tonight when I get home...

I'll take the pat-down over the scanner any day....I'm sure whoever has to do it won't enjoy it any more than I will :p

I love how TSOs think people care about their opinion on this--as if they've done anything more than repeat what they have been told. Sheesh.

Some of the NOS are MMW, and some of the NOS are BXR. There are some where the problem is only constitutional, and there are some where the problem is both constitutional and medical.

You may have gotten (un)lucky and gotten an MMW machine.

MMW is physically safe, the radiation is non-ionizing. The first wave of NOS were all MMW. The second wave are BXR, for reasons the TSA refuses to explain.

Are you sure about that?

http://current.com/news/91879541_ful...-human-dna.htm

The TSA has no desire to teach their screeners about the equipment any more than they have a desire to educate passengers.

Thanks very much. I haven't seen the official letter, althrough I have talked to some OSTP staff members about it. Every one of them said that the TSA was literally getting away with murder. They said that the TSA backed itself into a corner by procuring these things and would rather give cancer to Americans rather tyhan admit they have another "puffer" on their hands.

Thanks but no thanks. My wife & I choose not be irradiated by the clerks, period.

Excellent. Thank you for posting as I just sent it to several friends and will also be carrying copies.

Yes. Speaking as an electronic engineer who has worked telecom, I am positive about that.

MMW is non-ionizing, therefore doesn't cause genetic damage. The only danger is the dose, it is like warm water versus scalding water.

BXR is ionizing and I won't get near one of those.

I'm a scientist (kind of) and the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing is pretty basic stuff.

By the way, MMW uses Gigahertz, and the article is discussing Terahertz. I could be wrong on that point, not that it makes much of a difference because both are on the safer end of the spectrum The article confuses MMW and X-Ray consistently. The picture provided is from the BXR, and yet they say it was generated by "millimeter wave technology and / or backscatter X-rays".

It is clear that the article was not written by someone familiar with basic physics.

I'm the last one to defend the TSA, I'm always attacking their bad science. But I must attack bad science that attacks the TSA too.

Getting an honest job. Piano player in a cat house, for example.

What a moronic post. I would say that, no matter what I might think about someone's job, I hope they do not get assaulted by anyone....

If someone's job is rapist, I regularly hope they get assaulted by their clients.

I'm beyond caring. If they don't like the risk, they can get an honest job somewhere else.

It's unlikely that it will be a FlyerTalker that takes that swing, for the simple reason that most of us will anticipate what's coming, but sooner or later it's going to happen.

And that is what you believe the TSA do then? Commit rape? Well aside from there not being all of the parts of the offence being there to complete it I was not aware that the TSA engage people in forced sexual intercourse before they allow them on planes.