Comments on: Tragic Justice – TSA Reports Agents Developing Cancer from Naked Body Scanners http://revolutionradio.org/?p=17665 Your Weapon of Mass Destruction Wed, 22 May 2013 00:54:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: JJ MD http://revolutionradio.org/?p=17665&cpage=1#comment-47247 JJ MD Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:50:56 +0000 http://revolutionradio.org/?p=17665#comment-47247 This story is not a surprise to me at all. I used to wrk for TSA. Did not know what I was getting myself into. My career with TSA lasted a little over two months. During that time, I started researching the safety of the x-ray machines . Being Ex military and a grad student kind of helped me put a puzzles together. Here are the list of things I learned and observed 1. I was amazed with the speed of manufacturing the X- machines. Once the order was given by congress to set up TSA shops at the airport, manufactures supplied this machine immediately, RAPscan and L3 communications were the two major players. I know for a fact that, safety evaluation takes years of study before something is declared "safe". Even a simple medication take 10 years before it gets a green light from FDA. 2. I found out that safety data weren't available for the public. All we can rely is the TSA assurance that they are safe. How come a new administration that deals with security issues tells us about medical related concerns. I know for sure TSA has no physicist, radiology science experts, and other scientist on it's pay roll. Crazy isn't it. Inter-agency evaluation. Do you think A TSA employee would exposes his/her own agency and risk his own job. It is the best interest of the employee to continue employment I would think 3. I noticed many things while there, they rotate us every 30 minutes to different stations. 30 minutes at the x -ray, 30 minute pat down, etc. That was another red flag. Someone new something in the higher management about the issue with working closely with the x-ray machines. 4. I remember, one of the top management personal who pulls the people he like away from the x-ray and assign them to office related work. All of the by the way are white from a pool of black populated employees. II am not racist but looked strange. He was jut looking out and I respect him for that. 5. Have never seen anyone doing maintenance or test on the x-ray machine. The pretty much all day and can malfunction and emit a hire dose of radiation. This story is not a surprise to me at all. I used to wrk for TSA. Did not know what I was getting myself into. My career with TSA lasted a little over two months. During that time, I started researching the safety of the x-ray machines . Being Ex military and a grad student kind of helped me put a puzzles together. Here are the list of things I learned and observed

1. I was amazed with the speed of manufacturing the X- machines. Once the order was given by congress to set up TSA shops at the airport, manufactures supplied this machine immediately, RAPscan and L3 communications were the two major players. I know for a fact that, safety evaluation takes years of study before something is declared “safe”. Even a simple medication take 10 years before it gets a green light from FDA.

2. I found out that safety data weren’t available for the public. All we can rely is the TSA assurance that they are safe. How come a new administration that deals with security issues tells us about medical related concerns. I know for sure TSA has no physicist, radiology science experts, and other scientist on it’s pay roll. Crazy isn’t it. Inter-agency evaluation. Do you think A TSA employee would exposes his/her own agency and risk his own job. It is the best interest of the employee to continue employment I would think

3. I noticed many things while there, they rotate us every 30 minutes to different stations. 30 minutes at the x -ray, 30 minute pat down, etc. That was another red flag. Someone new something in the higher management about the issue with working closely with the x-ray machines.

4. I remember, one of the top management personal who pulls the people he like away from the x-ray and assign them to office related work. All of the by the way are white from a pool of black populated employees. II am not racist but looked strange. He was jut looking out and I respect him for that.

5. Have never seen anyone doing maintenance or test on the x-ray machine. The pretty much all day and can malfunction and emit a hire dose of radiation.

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