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Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
--George Washington

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Illegal, Immoral, and Unsafe Technology
Body Scanners



Government Body Scanner Image and Fritz Lang's Metropolis Robot.
Written by Teresa Knudsen. The Daily Paradise. April 30, 2010.

"The government body scanner image creates an eerie image of a human, similar to Fritz Lang's Metropolis robot without rights, morals or brains."

 

 

 

In 1927, Fritz Lang's futuristic, distopian film Metropolis entered the world stage. Watched by bewildered audiences, the film portrayed a two-tier society, with a small elite ruling class who possessed wealth and leisure, contrasted with the majority worker-slave class, doomed to harsh conditions and no hope of a better life for themselves or their children.

 

 

 

Metropolis Tells the Story of a Two-Tiered Society

A teacher, Maria, breaks the rules by bringing poor children up into the skyscraper garden, where she is quickly told to return to the lowly hovels. Yet, for a moment, she has shown the children a different world, a world of sunshine and flowers and plenty of food. Her beauty and spirit also shows a different world to Freder Frederson, the wealthy and spoiled son of the city's ruler. He falls in love with Maria at first sight, and determines to follow her down into her world.

Here he finds dispirited workers, whose only solace comes from the hope that Maria holds out to them, that the "Mediator" between the brain and the hands is the heart. Freder begins to see his responsibility to become the "Mediator," between his father's brain and the hands of the workers.

To destroy his son's love for Maria, the ruler, Joh Frederson, helps a mad inventor create a mechanical robot that resembles Maria, but without rights, without morals and without brains. They set the robot to corrupt the city, and it nearly succeeds. Only when the workers fear that their children are dead is there a revolt.

The Role of Allusion in Fritz Lang's Metropolis

Like Maria, art can influence life, bringing new perspectives to the viewer. The film Metropolis exemplifies the techique of German Expressionism, or Technologial Gothic, as explained by Michael Organ in his blog "Metropolis Film Archive." The allusion to a Frankenstein monster, that should never have been created, is clear.

In the case of Lang's film, modern audiences notice similiarities between the slave conditions of the workers and the depressed economy leading to mind-numbing and back-breaking work, leaving no time to enjoy life, or spend time with family and friends, or to help children.

Shaun Ferrell notes in his review of Metropolis, "The next sequences show the workers reporting for their shifts. They wear black and gray clothing...walk in perfect rows, their heads hung, their shoulders slouched. The image is quite clear: their spirits have been broken. They are no longer human, just living cogs in the greater machines of Metropolis."

Metropolis Robot & US "Naked" Body Scanner Image

The US government body scanner images provided by the Transportation Security Administration have similiarities with the Metropolis robot.

The Metropolis robot was created without rights. Like the human slave workers, the Metropolis robot is told what to do by the leader and the mad scientist. The "naked" body scanner image shows a person who has no rights. The TSA staff member has given up her rights ensured by the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and submitted to unreasonable search, violating the Fourth Amendment. The TSA staff has apparently committed no crime, but models submission to a strip search, with her image shown to the world.

A second aspect is the lack of morals related to the Metropolis robot. The ruler of Metropolis and a mad inventor kidnap Maria, and create a robot in her likeness. This doppleganger embodies evil, all the more so as the people trust her, believing her to be Maria. The robot is the classic screen vamp, mesmerizing men, and leading them to doom not only for themselves, but for society in general and their children in particular.

The image created by the US government body scanner is a naked person. The US authorities not only strip innocent men, women, and children of their rights, but also their clothes.

Yet another allusion is the lack of brains, or common sense. At the end of the film, enraged citizens set fire to the robot. Being brainless, the robot is not horrified, but rather amused by the fire, and dies laughing.

In a similar way, the Transportation Security Adminsitration staff who agreed to enter the Rapscian body scanner laughs while being bombarded with deadly radiation.

Audiences were not ready for the harsh view of the future they saw in 1927, as they watched Metropolis. Perhaps like them, modern audiences are not ready to believe that the science-fiction stories of x-ray vision are now a reality at our airports, and soon to be at our recreational events, and on our streets.

References
Ferrell, Shaun. "Classic Review-Metropolis."

Shawn's Quadrant-October 2005.

Organ, Michael. "Metropolis Film Archive."
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"Government Body Scanner Image and Fritz Lang's Metropolis Robot"by T.G. Knudsen, Copyright, April 30, 2010 Editorial


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 “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—

 

  WE MUST TELL OUR SERVANTS IN CONGRESS TO REMOVE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BETRAYED OUR TRUST. ARTICLE II REGARDS IMPEACHMENT

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/



"The amount of fear brought on by these financial institutions has generated insane behavior. The only intelligent response to this insanity is downscaling and localizing our lives. The problem is that inertia in place is tremendous and is a huge drag on our ability to make intelligent responses. What are we to do if our shipment of cheese doodles doesn’t come in?

 The airline industry is also falling to pieces. The problem is that there is no rail service. Our airports are clogged with planes headed for destinations five hundred miles or so away. This is the ideal distance for railway trips, now that gasoline is prohibitively expensive. But no one is talking about it, least of all the idiot politicians who are vying to “lead” the country.

Americans are now exceedingly demoralized. We have no idea how to re-organize our local economies and interdependency. Everyone is sleepwalking off the edge. Forget upscale bicycles. The raw materials for their upkeep (rubber and alloys) will be entirely too expensive in the near future.

 History isn’t symmetrical. Things fall apart messily. In addition, “functioning” adults are behaving like children. “When you wish upon a star” is Disney’s anthem to a generation of “adults” in America. And advertising has led us to believe we can get something for nothing. It’s become an ironclad religion now: Wishing for what you want will get you something for nothing. This may be true for a child, but it has no place in an adult’s reality. In fact, this mindset is exceedingly dangerous. But a majority of Americans have been infected by it.

 We can no longer trust government to get things done for us. That’s abundantly clear. So stop wringing your hands about Bush and his cronies, about the electoral process and who’s going to be elected, because whomever ends up elected, fraudulently or not, cannot and will not begin to address the problems we the people face. We know this because of their campaign rhetoric. Even if they did offer “solutions,” they are lying. Solutions are pure fantasy. "

 

  Why We the People Must Bring Bush Co to Trial,
and also Obama,
Who is Doing NOTHING to Restore the Constitution.

  John Yoo publicly argued there is no law that could prevent the ... by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no law that can stop him? Yoo: ...

 www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/090106torturechildren.htm

 http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/090106torturechildren.htm

 Torture Victims Confront Torture Advocate

... Torture Master John Yoo Being Asked To Justify "Crushing Children's Testicles" Comments ... does it say the President [sic] can order the torture of children? ...

 www.infowars.com/articles/ps/torture_yoo_being_asked_justify_crushing_child...

 http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/torture_yoo_being_asked_justify_crushing_childrens_testicls.htm

 bUSH ADMITS THAT HE SAW THE FIRST PLANE HIT THE TOWER BEFORE HE WENT TO HIDE BEHIND CHILDREN IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

 

 http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/essay.jsp?article=essayaninterestingday

 

Bush’s Confused Recollection

Bush’s own recollection of the first crash only complicates the picture. Less than two months after the attacks, Bush made the preposterous claim that he had watched the first attack as it happened on live television. This is the seventh different account of how Bush learned about the first crash (in his limousine, from Loewer, from Card, from Rove, from Gottesman, from Rice, from television). On December 4, 2001, Bush was asked: “How did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?” Bush replied, “I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower—the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly, myself, and I said, well, there’s one terrible pilot. I said, it must have been a horrible accident. But I was whisked off there, I didn’t have much time to think about it.” [White House, 12/4/01]

There was no film footage of the first attack until at least the following day, and Bush didn’t have access to a television until 15 or so minutes later. [Washington Times, 10/7/02] The Boston Herald later noted, “Think about that. Bush’s remark implies he saw the first plane hit the tower. But we all know that video of the first plane hitting did not surface until the next day. Could Bush have meant he saw the second plane hit—which many Americans witnessed? No, because he said that he was in the classroom when Card whispered in his ear that a second plane hit.” [Boston Herald, 10/22/02] Bush’s recollection has many precise details. Is he simply confused? It’s doubly strange why his advisors didn’t correct him or—at the very least—stop him from repeating the same story only four weeks later. [White House, 1/5/02, CBS, 9/11/02] On January 5, 2002, Bush stated: “Well, I was sitting in a schoolhouse in Florida… and my Chief of Staff – well, first of all, when we walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first building. There was a TV set on. And you know, I thought it was pilot error and I was amazed that anybody could make such a terrible mistake. And something was wrong with the plane…” [White House, 1/5/02]

  

 

 Hear Ye, Hear Ye: To the Good People of the United States of America, who loud and clear told Our Congress in November 2006, to bring Our Troops Home, and to Uphold the Bright Lights of Liberty and Freedom of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights: We Have the Right, the Duty, and the Power to Restore the Law, and to Remove Those Who are Traitors, War Criminals, and Lunatics: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ 

 

  WE the People MUST WAKE UP!!! 

 

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