NaturalNews) The Obama administration recently
announced its $3.73 trillion dollar budget plan for
the 2012 fiscal year beginning on October 1. The new
budget includes a more than $44 billion allocation
for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
to purchase 275 more naked body scanners to be
installed at U.S. airports, despite continued outcry
from health experts and the public about the
machines' safety hazards, threats to personal
privacy, and complete ineffectiveness.
Up three percent from last year's
budget, the DHS allocation is just the start of
the
Obama administration's efforts to have 1,275
naked body scanners installed in airports by the
end of 2012. The plan disregards the numerous
testimonies from
security experts who have dubbed the machines "
useless,"
and say they fail to detect explosive materials any
better than conventional scanners.
"I don't know why everybody is running to buy these
expensive and useless machines," said Rafi Sela,
former chief of security at the Israel Airport
Authority and expert in
airport security. "I can overcome the
body
scanners with enough explosives to bring down a
Boeing 747. That's why we haven't put them in our
airport."
The machines are also a huge
health threat, as they bombard travelers with
low intensity
radiation in a way that spreads it across the
skin
of the entire body. This full-body radioactive blast
has not been fully investigated and nobody knows for
sure what the long-term consequences of exposure
will be.
"It concerns me a great deal," said University of
California -
San Francisco (UCSF) professor Robert Stroud in
an interview with CBS 5 San Francisco, concerning
the machines. "We simply don't know enough about low
intensity radiation. Skin is where a lot of this
particular radiation probably will be the most
damaging."
Other Obama administration budgetary changes in the
DHS category include a $10 million cut for border
security in southwest states like Arizona and
California.
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