Why exactly do you feel you have to make lame excuses for the government? We live in the information age and information now is the ultimate power. The high level politicians and bureaucrats are clearly maniacs when it comes to power. IMHO there is no doubt that all information that can potentially be used in a power struggle, such as Rapiscan scans, is not destroyed, but stored by some government agency. Those scans can be used to reliably identify tents of millions of people.
>Why exactly do you feel you have to make lame excuses for the government?
Why do you feel the need to base your entire argument on a slippery slope fallacy? Either they are, and proof is required, or they're not.
The fact that we're talking about the government does not reverse the burden of proof!
>Those scans can be used to reliably identify tents of millions of people.
Have you seen the image output from a backscatter machine? While invasive (ostensibly because they include the genitals), they don't show very good detail. Somehow I efficacy of backscatter machines being used for mass identification purposes and the existence of such a program.
I'm not making lame excuses for the government. At no point did I say that it was ok for them to store the images. My point was that this statement:
They told us they wouldn't store the images on the
previous scanners, but it turns out they were.
was disingenuous. Saying that 'they lied about storing the images' has no basis in truth here (at least without presenting other evidence that I'm unaware of).
I don't know about you, but I don't think that there's any reason to make misleading statements in order to present the case that these images shouldn't be stored.
The point is that making misleading comments (or outright lying) is only going to hurt your cause. People will ignore the message (no matter how right it may be) and attack your methods.
