New York PD Is Using X-rays to Penetrate Vehicles and Buildings — Evidently Looking for Terrorist Paraphernalia — Can You Imagine what these Do to Your Body when You’re in the Way? — And Police Commissioner Bratton Refuses to Tell Us anything about What Is Going on

© 2015 Peter Free

 

15 October 2015

 

 

More lunacy from America’s incessantly breeding crop of totalitarians

 

From the International Business Times:

 

 

The New York Police Department is using super-secret X-ray vans and it is something the authorities want to keep tight-lipped.

 

The vehicles, known as Z Backscatter Vans, patrol the city streets and, while the NYPD is not disclosing what it is doing with them, it is understood they have the ability to see into the contents of cars or even inside homes as a counter-terrorism measure.

 

The X-ray vans have the technology to penetrate through the body of a vehicle as it drives past to see whether there are weapons, explosives or drugs inside — something often used by immigration patrols.

 

The same could potentially go for the walls of buildings and houses or even what you are keeping under your coat. The worry from members of the public is whether the X-ray vans are being used on people as a means to search for concealed weapons and, if so, what are the health and privacy implications.

 

"Those issues I'd prefer not to divulge to the public at this time," [Police Commissioner Bill] Bratton said in a story by the New York Post. "I will not talk about anything at all about this — it falls into the range of security and counter-terrorism activity that we engage in."

 

© 2015 James Billington, NYPD uses secret X-ray vans with ability to see through cars, houses and what's under your coat, International Business Times (14 October 2015)

 

 

The moral? — The anti-Constitutional ordinariness of this story symbolizes how completely the United States has lost its mind

 

Words fail me.