DHS Still Stonewalling On Body Scanning Ruling One Year Later

OverTheGeicoE writes "About a year ago, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on EPIC v. DHS, a lawsuit that sought to end TSA's use of body scanners. The Court found that DHS violated federal law by not seeking public comment before using body scanners as a primary search method. They ordered TSA to take public comment on its body scanning policy but did not require TSA to suspend its use of the scanners during the comment period. Several months later nothing had been done yet. One year later TSA has still done nothing, and even EPIC, the original plaintiff, seems to have given up. Others have apparently picked up the torch, however. Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute, has posted a piece on Ars Technica about TSA's violation of the court order. He also started a petition on Whitehouse.gov asking TSA to comply with the order. An earlier petition ended with a non-response from TSA Administrator John Pistole. Will the latest petition fare any better, even in an election year?"

Re:Pure distraction

[Dishevel]

Which is the real reason for the second amendment.
With an armed populace the government fears the people. This is freedom.
With an unarmed populace the people fear the government. This is tyranny.
Get guns. Film the police. Vote no on almost every new law. Vote in every election. Vote for the nobody. Vote for the new guy.
Never vote for the incumbent. Never vote for his most likely opponent. Stay involved. Question authority. Do not fly.
Break their power over us by arming yourself. (Guns/Information)
Break their power over us by disarming them. (Money)
You do not get a small accountable government by just demanding it of them. You must demand it of yourself.
You must be self sufficient as much as possible. You can not effectively hold power over those you owe everything to.
Pay your bills. Do not over spend. Save. Work. Expect nothing from them and more from yourself.
Support your family. Hold your values.
Remember. These people are elected. This is our fault. We must fix it.

Re:Show us your papers

[thomst]

hairyfeet inquired:

Does anybody think a McSame presidency would have been any different from a Nobama?

I do.

If McLame had been elected, there'd have been no auto industry bailout, and most of the American automakers would have gone the way of the dodo - taking with them all their employees' jobs, plus those of their parts and raw materials suppliers, and their dealerships (think "service departments", not just salemen). Plus their credit acceptance organizations would have gone with 'em, and that would have added more tens of billions in bad debt to the meltdown, and greatly contributed to the credit crunch. Plus, no consumer credit protection agency, for sure, because McLame would have vetoed it. Plus no healthcare reform of any kind, so people like my wife and I - both of whom have pre-existing medical conditions - would have remained locked out of any possibility of obtaining medical insurance. Plus Osama bin Laden would still be alive.

Oh, and when McLame keeled over dead from the pressures of the job, we'd be stuck with Sarah "I can see Russia from my house" Palin as Commander in Chief.

So, yeah, as disappointing as Obama's first term has been in many ways, I think there'd be significant differences in the current state of affairs had McLame been elected, instead. And not, you know, in a good way ...

Re:Pure distraction

[Anonymous Coward]

Hello. I'm a pedophile.

Have I ever touched, groomed or inappropriately talked with a child? No.
Will I ever? No.
Do I have a sex drive? Yes.
Is my sex drive high? No.
Why not? Because I'm an addict.
Why is that? Because I wish I wasn't a pedophile and was normal.
Will I ever be normal? No.
Will I ever molest a child? No.
Will I ever stop self-medicating with narcotics? Probably not.
Will I ever be married, have kids, be a social person, be successful? No.
Will I ever be a happy person? Probably not, because I have difficulty loving and accepting myself, including integrating my orientation with the other parts of my personality.

Do I need to "be subjected to greater scrutiny?" No, I'm a red-blooded American as anyone else and deserve my dignity, privacy, and right to be unmolested just like any other person, American or not, child or adult.

Re:Will we ever learn?

[dbIII]

The TSA and Homeland Security in general are well beyond Hoover's FBI. It's turned into a vast welfare organisation funnelling so much money into so many pockets that it would probably be political suicide to kill it. You'll probably have to wait for an outgoing President that hates his own party before anyone seriously takes it on.