Big Big Big Brother Coming To New York

[Mr Lee]

Interesting since once one large city does it, and if they get away with it, then those things could soon be deployed all over the world. Besides the gun issue which many of us from different countries will never agree on, so we should not even bother to discuss it if we cannot do it in a friendly manner, the health risk would be my concern. Subjecting millions to these rays when only a few might have illegal guns seems way overboard. Severely punish those who commit crimes with guns, and there will either be less crimes with guns or less trouble makers on the streets to commit them. New York Moves to Deploy Body Scanners on Street in Search for GunsNew York City is largely a Second Amendment free zone. The city’s mayor, Michael Blookberg, has said that citizens “acting outside of any governmental military effort” should not be allowed to protect themselves with firearms.“The NYPD and Department of Defense are working together testing Terahertz Imaging Detection, a new way to get concealed illegal weapons off the streets,” CBS reports. Terahertz Imaging Detection measures energy radiating from the body up to 16 feet away and can detect anything blocking it.The ACLU and civil libertarians oppose the effort to use the technology on the street. “It’s worrisome. It implicates privacy, the right to walk down the street without being subjected to a virtual pat-down by the Police Department when you’re doing nothing wrong,” the NYCLU’s Donna Lieberman said.In addition to violating the Fourth Amendment, the proposed technology would subject citizens to a documented health risk – the destruction of DNA.Studies reveal that THz waves “unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication,” according to MIT’s Technology Review.