Protest The Use of Full Body Scanners! (and other hyper "security" measures)

We've all heard alot of talk lately about "heightening security" at
the airports. Well just want to say Movement for a Democratic Society
(MDS-SI-NYC) in coalition with other outraged activists, both locally
and nationally, aren't having it.

WE ARE PLANNING PROTESTS AT LOCAL AIRPORTS.
AND WITH YOUR HELP, ON A NATIONAL BASIS.

The use of full body scanners is as invasive to our privacy as it is
degrading to our dignity.
Targeting "terrorist prone counties" is nothing more than
racial profiling.
We aren't moved by pleas for increased security from "terrorists".
We can't be convinced that even more abuses to our privacy rights are
needed for anyones safety.
We won't be bullied by government or media hysteria -- No matter how
ratcheted up the fearmongering gets or how overheated the propaganda
becomes.
We plan to make our voices heard, and we'd like you to join in this campaign if you agree.

The government violates privacy rights and makes people jump thru'
hoops enough under the pretext of security. But the right to privacy
is an inalienable human right. Our determination to protect that
human right from increasing intrusions is unshakeable.
We not only refuse to subject ourselves to full body scans, we reject
there use altogether.
On any person, from any country, at any time!

THEY SAY, extra security screening of people from "terrorist prone
countries" will make everyone safer.
WE SAY, it's racist, and can not be done. Not in our name.
THEY SAY, head-to-toe x-raying of the entire body, adults and children
alike, is "simply precautionary", "safeguarded", and "for our own
good".
WE SAY, we'd rather be blown to bits than to live in a world where
racial profiling was the norm, and dehumanizing violations of our right
to privacy, accepted.

Full body scans are virtual strip searches.
All human beings have a right to be secure in their person, and no
amount of fearmongering should be able to strip that right away!


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