The following post, quoted in its entirety from the blog at LewRockwell.com, was sent to me by Gary L. Cottingham. Thanks, Gary!
November 11, 2010
All TSA Radiation Is Dangerous
Posted by Lew Rockwell on November 11, 2010 11:41 AM
Writes Phil Camp:
Millimeter-wave radiation (MWR) may not be so safe. Besides heating effects, microwaves have unpredictable frequency-dependent effects. A change in frequency will change the effect. For example, 28 GHz makes marigolds bloom & 536 GHz kills monkeys. I have read that the frequencies used in the MWR devices are up in the Terahertz range (1 THz = 1000 GHz), near the resonant frequency of the bonds in the acid base pairs in DNA & RNA. So there is an unknown risk of chromosome damage. By “unknown” we mean “You first!’.
Our original safety standards for microwaves were based on the model that any damage was due to heating. But radar cops have a very high incidence of prostate cancer (the ‘safe’ gadget sits maybe 2 feet from their laps). The Soviets, not exactly known for their scrupulous public safety record, did actual controlled experiments on microwave safety after capturing the technology from the Nazis. They wound up not using microwave cooking for the army, despite the obvious advantages, and set exposure standards a thousand times more stringent than ours.
P.S., I agree that the X ray machines are dangerous, particularly since the people using them are not exactly getting X ray tech level training. Did you notice the dosimeters they’re wearing? They’re not — don’t need dosimeters if it’s safe, right? Serves ‘em right, although somebody should tell them, “You think you’re the state’s pets, but from this you can see that they don’t care if you live or die.”
Keep getting the word out. I don’t want to take part in an uncontrolled science experiment, which is exactly what these systems are. Most doctors I have asked say they would never set foot in a scanner.
Serious fan of your blog, plenty of your blogposts have really helped me out. Looking towards updates!
You know how in hospitals, the X-Ray tech goes behind a screen to take your X-ray, even though the dose is concentrated at only one part of your body? Yeah…these people think that standing right next to this radiation machine all day long is safe? My gosh…I don’t even want to stand next to it to walk through the metal detector! I cannot image the backlash when these people (lets face it…the TSA employees aren’t the smartest workers we’ve found) start having kids with birth defects and get all kinds of cancers at age 40 because of standing next to an X-ray machine all day long with no protection. Does not compute!
I also wonder about the radiation effects on the screeners themselves. How much are they being exposed to? The virtual strip search ‘booths’ are wide open and the scanner rotates a beam of radiation around the subject’s body, but is all that radiation captured? If it were a shower, and the radiation beam was a stream of water, anyone standing around the area would be soaked! Now, I don’t know if radiation splashes around the same way as water, but I’m wondering if there’s even anyone else out there who knows, or whether anyone has even bothered to ask such questions.
When the folks in blue shirts all come down with skin cancer or leprosy because of their on the job exposure to harmful radiation, maybe then their employers will listen. Probably not, though. Where’s OSHA, by the way?
I also wonder about the radiation effects on the screeners themselves. How much are they being exposed to?
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When the folks in blue shirts all come down with skin cancer or leprosy because of their on the job exposure to harmful radiation, maybe then their employers will listen. Probably not, though. Where’s OSHA, by the way?
Excellent question Michael, one that I have been asking since the inception of these monster-machines.
As to the TSA ‘workers’ and their ‘health’ – I think this is hardly a concern for the higher-ups in the TSA and the government in general, since they consider these worker-proles little more than minimum-wage, minimum-IQ thugs and idiots anyway (and expendable ones at that).
Talk about ‘Karma’ though, eh?!?
“…since they consider these worker-proles little more than minimum-wage, minimum-IQ thugs and idiots anyway (and expendable ones at that).
Talk about ‘Karma’ though, eh?!?”
~Truth-to-power
I’m thinking you changed the meaning of your sarcastic comment right were you say
“Talk about ‘Karma’ though, eh?!?”
~Truth-to-power
So I was expendable when I a “Minimum-IQ Thug” was out serving on the front-lines in Iraq and Afghanistan. To then come home being Honorably discharged due to the rifle rounds that priced my chest, arm and legs? Is it Karma for me to be bodily-able to work, yet find a job in this market?
I’m not supporting this crap they are pulling in ANYWAY but listen here couch potato.
If you want to fight this low radiation crap go ahead, but there’s vets out there everyday that faced the wrath of hell. Suffering from the effects of Agent orange, Anthrax, White Phos., DET, Uranium poisoning, Shit fumes, and the thousands of “experimental vaccines” we were/are submitted to on a daily basis. I understand this crap effects you… but put a band aid on that paper cut of yours and go fight for the broken neck, loss of limbs and faces of your brothers and sisters, who by the way aren’t whining!
‘Karma’ Aye!
Excellent question Michael
That sould read “Excellent question Michael and Amy… .
Sorry Amy, I didn’t readily notice Michael was responding to a point you were deftly making.