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with added bonus of the "cancer card!"
I found two similar stories
here
and here
jist of it is: tissue expanders used post masectomy for women with breast cancer contain magnets(and sometimes other metallic items) that show up on TSA scanners. most persons with medical implants are informed to notify TSA screeners and have the card identifying the medical device with them(as in, in hand with your ID). And may be subject to additional screening.
the manufactured outrage:
as of march 26th, 2010 and July 6th, 2011
mind you don't misread the article, an "investigative journalist" says it's extraordinarily difficult but a plastic surgeon says it would be very possible and easy.(my instinct says trust the guy with the medical degree to know about medical stuff)
now the cancer card:
sorry, my mom with her eye lens replacement, and implantable defibrillator has to go through the same thing, and hers aren't temporary. People with replacement joints, same thing. Sorry the scanner can't tell if it's a magnet or a detonator.
Yes it is just "security theatre" I am well aware of that, but to try and use cancer, and claim there is "no reason to check implants" just kind of shows it's more the "I'm special, so the rules don't apply to me" Tissue expanders are temporary, and not a disability, and I'm getting tired of the people that have no clue what HIPPA actually is.
I got pulled aside at the boarding gate two feet from the tunnel to the plane, had my bags both rechecked(they had already been checked twice), got a pat down, and had to take my ponytail down, wasn't a big deal(yup full pat down and all), maybe I should've yelled and screamed that it was because I'm a ginger, or that I was a woman, except three other random people were pulled aside as well.
I found two similar stories
here
and here
jist of it is: tissue expanders used post masectomy for women with breast cancer contain magnets(and sometimes other metallic items) that show up on TSA scanners. most persons with medical implants are informed to notify TSA screeners and have the card identifying the medical device with them(as in, in hand with your ID). And may be subject to additional screening.
the manufactured outrage:
At what point does the need for security eclipse human dignity and compassion?
British spy satellites intercepted al-Qaida communications from Pakistan and Yemen, discussing plans to use women as suicide bombers using explosives concealed in breast implants. British intelligence reportedly learned that several British-trained plastic surgeons had returned to the Middle East to perform the surgeries. The process involves inserting the explosive PETN into plastic capsules inside a breast implant before the operation.
now the cancer card:
Women with implants due to cancer, who have suffered enough, are getting stopped and selected for searches. We cancer survivors are being selected for assault, our privacy violated, completely against our will, for no other reason than we had a disease and chose to hide or repair our disfigurement. That has to be some sort of HIPPA or disability rights violation.
Yes it is just "security theatre" I am well aware of that, but to try and use cancer, and claim there is "no reason to check implants" just kind of shows it's more the "I'm special, so the rules don't apply to me" Tissue expanders are temporary, and not a disability, and I'm getting tired of the people that have no clue what HIPPA actually is.
I got pulled aside at the boarding gate two feet from the tunnel to the plane, had my bags both rechecked(they had already been checked twice), got a pat down, and had to take my ponytail down, wasn't a big deal(yup full pat down and all), maybe I should've yelled and screamed that it was because I'm a ginger, or that I was a woman, except three other random people were pulled aside as well.
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