The letter that the TSA doesn't want you to read

Ten big concerns voiced by the scientists

Dangerous errors are possible

Big Government says: What cancer?

You can't have nutrition, but we'll feed you X-rays!

The craziest part of all

Naked body scanners pose a cancer risk

Who are the real terrorists? The TSA

(NaturalNews) The news about the potential health dangers of the TSA's naked body scanners just keeps getting worse. An increasing number of doctors and scientists are going public with their warnings about the health implications of subjecting yourself to naked body scanners. These include Dr Russell Blaylock (see below) as well as several professors from the University of California who are experts in X-ray imaging.At the same time, some internet bloggers are insisting that the TSA's naked body scanners pose no health risks because air travelers are subjected to higher levels of radiation by simply enduring high-altitude flights where cosmic radiation isn't filtered out by the full thickness of the Earth's atmosphere. This comparison, however, is inaccurate: The TSA's body scannerswhereas cosmic radiation during high-altitude flights is distributedComparing the total radiation exposureto machine-emitted radiation exposure thatis like comparing apples and oranges. You'll see this explained further, below, in the words of these scientists.As Dr Russell Blaylock ( www.BlaylockReport.com ) recently reported:The letter Dr Blaylock is referring to is from the Faculty of theand is signed by Doctors John Sedat Ph.D., David Agard, Ph.D., Marc Shuman, M.D., Robert Stroud, Ph.D.You can download or view the full letter from NaturalNews here (PDF):Even though it was written in April of this year, this letter has received increased publicity lately due to the TSA's sudden expansion of naked body scanners in airports as well as the agency's arrogant insistence that such machines will soon be used at bus stations, railway stations and other entrance points for mass transportation.In this NaturalNews article, I highlightand explain, in plain language, what these scientists are trying to say.Once again, this letter was written by Drs John Sedat Ph.D., David Agard, Ph.D., Marc Shuman, M.D., Robert Stroud, Ph.D., all from the University of California.Here is their background as described in the letter:Here are the highlights of the letter along with my comments and explanations:Translation: The naked body scanners may be dangerous to your health.Translation: The safety of these naked body scanners has never been demonstrated, and especially not by an independent panel of qualified scientists.Translation: The ionizing radiation emitted by these devices can alter your DNA.Translation: The danger of these devices is significantly higher than what might be assumed from the TOTAL radiation emissions. This is why those who claim "you get more radiation just from flying" are flat-out wrong in their conclusions.Translation: This is a further explanation of why the ionizing radiation from the naked body scanners may pose a much higher risk of cancer (two orders of magnitude higher!) than what might be assumed from the total radiation emissions.Translation: The FDA screwed up the safety testing (gee, really?) by assuming the emitted radiation was distributedrather than focused on the skin.It brings up the question: When and how were these devices ever approved by the FDA anyway? Naked body scanners are clearly "medical devices" as they emit X-rays that penetrate body tissue. Did the FDA ever conduct long-term clinical trials demonstrating the safety of these devices? (Of course not.)Did they ever test the safety of naked body scanners onWhat aboutHow about people who have already undergone radiation treatments for conditions likeHere are ten additional concerns raised by these scientists in their letter: (the bolded titles are my subheads, the subsequent explanation test is quoted straight out the scientists' letter)- The large population of older travelers, greater than 65 years of age, is particularly at risk from the mutagenic effects of the X-rays based on the known biology of melanocyte aging.- A fraction of the female population is especially sensitive to mutagenesis-provoking radiation leading to breast cancer. Notably, because these women, who have defects in DNA repair mechanisms, are particularly prone to cancer, X-ray mammograms are not performed on them. The dose to breast tissue beneath the skin represents a similar risk.- Blood (white blood cells) perfusing the skin is also at risk.- The population of immunocompromised individuals -- HIV and cancer patients (see above) is likely to be at risk for cancer induction by the high skin dose.- The risk of radiation emission to children and adolescents does not appear to have been fully evaluated.- The policy towards pregnant women needs to be defined once the theoretical risks to the fetus are determined.- Because of the proximity of the testicles to skin, this tissue is at risk for sperm mutagenesis.- Have the effects of the radiation on the cornea and thymus been determined?- There are a number of 'red flags' related to the hardware itself. Because this device can scan a human in a few seconds, the X-ray beam is very intense. Any glitch in power at any point in the hardware (or more importantly in software) that stops the device could cause an intense radiation dose to a single spot on the skin.Translation: This machine does not emit a "flood light" of radiation like you might get from a dental X-ray machine. Rather, this machine emits a thin, narrow beam of radiation that is quickly "scanned" across your body, back and forth, in much the same way that an inkjet printer prints a page (but a lot faster). Because the angle of the X-ray beam is controlled by the scanner software,if the beam gets "stuck" in one location for more than a fraction of a second.- Given the recent incident (on December 25th, 2009), how do we know whether the manufacturer or TSA , seeking higher resolution, will scan the groin area more slowly leading to a much higher total dose?None of these ten concerns are being answered by the TSA and its head John Pistole. The attitude from the TSA on these scanners, in fact, is, treating Americans as terrorists and threatening to arrest and detain individuals who refuse to be scanned and groped.The TSA, it seems, believes it can do no wrong. Such is the inevitable outcome of granting too much power to any government department, as it will always seek to expand its power to the point of tyranny over the People.In this letter, these scientists go on to explain why they continue to hold such concerns: (my emphasis added)Translation: These scientists believe that the TSA's naked body scanners poseacross the population and that a real, scientific evaluation by trained, independent scientists must be conducted before these scanners are put to further use.Again, you can read this letter for yourself here:The TSA, of course, refuses to hold any serious discussion about the science behind its use of naked body scanners... primarily becauseThis whole scam was orchestrated by Chertoff and his Washington buddies tointo accepting X-ray scans at airports so that a few rich white guys could cash in on the sale of these machines to the federal government.The whole thing is a massive con job that, as usual, benefits the bank accounts of a few well-connected power pushers while compromising both the freedoms and the health of the American people.No legitimate safety testing has ever been conducted on these naked body scanners, and yet the FDA and TSA just allow them to be rolled out on the ASSUMPTION that they must somehow be perfectly safe. (The same is true with seasonal flu vaccines, by the way, which are never tested in randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials.)Isn't this how aspartame got legalized, come to think of it? Except in that case it was Rumsfeld, not Chertoff, calling the shots.Think about what's happening here for a minute: The FDA is an agency that has gone out and threatened, raided and persecuted manufacturers of walnuts, cherries and green tea products who madehealth claims about the benefits of those products. And yet, when it comes to rolling out naked body scanners that pose a cancer risk to the population, the FDA requiresand simply rubber stamps the whole project, thereby subjecting virtually the entire population to radiation-emitting devices withBut then again, what do they care if a few thousand people get cancer anyway? More cancer just means more profits for the cancer industry which, not coincidentally, just happens to treat its patients withas some sort of "therapy" for cancer. (I know, this just gets more bizarre the further you go).Big Pharma must love the fact that millions of Americans are now being subjected to yet another form of ionizing radiation, as that meansto buy chemotherapy in the years ahead, too. Pile 'em in, Chief! We've got more cattle to brand!But the really crazy part about this whole story is not that the scientists are concerned about the health risks of these naked body scanners. It's not that the TSA is, itself, a terrorist organization now generating more fear and terror than the international terrorists could ever hope to accomplish. It's not even the fact that the FDA allows these radiation machines to be widely used across the country despite the fact that they've never been honestly and scientifically tested for use on humans.No, the real shocker in all this is the startling fact that. Your average American citizen, it seems, just can't wait to bow down to authority and subject their private body parts to a federal search in complete violation of their Constitutional rights.The American education system, it seems, has successfully producedwho utterly fail to ask intelligent questions or stand up for their own rights. I guess that's the result of all thebeing taught in public schools these days, where children are taught that Christopher Columbus is a national hero and that the government always tells the truth.By the way, this reminds me to mention one of the most eye-opening books you will ever read. It's calledby Judge Andrew Napolitano ( http://www.amazon.com/Lies-Government-Told-Y... If you're not one of the Sheeple, and you think for yourself, and you have come to the realization that practically everything you were taught about history in the public schools was a complete fabrication, then you will definitely enjoy this book. It's written by one of the most knowledgeable and intelligent Constitutional scholars you'll ever encounter, and its sections on the Fourth Amendment are especially relevant to what's happening today with the TSA.In fact, come to think of it, Judge Napolitano recently appeared on the Alex Jones Show to talk about the freedom issues with the naked body scanners and obscene gropes. You can watch those videos at: http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-alex-jones-s... It's a very educational interview.But getting back to the health issue in particular, it is clear to anyone who understands the laws of physics that the TSA's naked body scanners create anto the population.That's why I had the sense to refuse to go through one of these when directed to do so at a California airport. I opted out and went through the "easy" pat down (the easy version, before they upgraded to their "enhanced" pat downs). ( https://www.naturalnews.com/030100_naked_body... As of right now,until the TSA backs off its naked body scanner madness. Not only do I refuse to subject my biology to ionizing radiation that carries an unknown cancer risk, but I also strongly object to the U.S. government violating my Constitutional rights by viewing the shape of my naked body on their electronic viewing screens.Another thing that has become abundantly clear in all this is that. "Terrorism" is defined as using fear to achieve a political purpose. I can't think of a better example of that than the TSA and its fear-mongering campaign engineered to justify its huge power-grabbing expansion of personnel and authority. This is a government agency that had fewer than 200 employees a few years ago but now directs over 60,000 agents (it's like a whole new army of domestic secret police).Another obvious "a-ha" moment in all this comes when you realize that. Your chances of being killed by a terrorist on an air flight in America are so low that you probably have a greater chance of being struck by lightning right smack in the center of your butt crack while doing a yoga pose in a thunderstorm. And yet, your chances of being molested by the TSA are orders of magnitude higher, and everyone who stands in line at a security checkpoint is thinking, in the back of their minds, "Oh God, I hope they don't single me out for an obscene pat down."The fact that this thought appears in your head (and admit it, it does) should be athat you now live in a police state. People who live in truly free societies do not fret over being molested by their own government security agents.Think about it: The way you and I feel in a TSA security line in many way reflects a small part of the way a Jewish citizen must have felt in Germany, in the 1930's, when a Nazi party member knocked on their door and demanded to see their papers. You never know: Am I going to be arrested? Molested? Detained? Deported? Or even killed?Remember:And right now, that seems to be a word-for-word blueprint for what the TSA is doing to the American people.- Thomas Jefferson.And Winston Churchill famously said: