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Topic started on 23-11-2010 @ 10:46 AM by airspoon

Report: Body scanner makers doubled lobbying cash over 5 years


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Multimillion dollar government contracts don't just happen. Ask the companies with the big government contracts to supply Body-scanning machines to U.S. airports how much more they had to spend on lobbying on the Hill. Not only have they increased their lobbying efforts over the last 5 years, they're doing it with some very familiar names.

USA Today reports that the companies with the biggest government contracts for body-scanners doubled their lobbying cash over the last five years, and adva
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reply posted on 23-11-2010 @ 10:46 AM by airspoon
The more we are finding out about these body scanners and the methods that are being used to push them on the people, the more obvious the corruption gets. Yesterday, I created a thread on the CEO of a company which makes the body scanners, traveling in Obama's entourage to India.

Now, we find out that the lobbying efforts have doubled over the last five years. If it isn't clear that this was an economic descision over one of safety, than I don't know what is.

We are clearly having these violating scanners pushed on us for the personal gain of the elite, not because they make us any safer. What's worse, is that these scanners could be very bad for us healthwise, never mind liberty-wise.

There should certainly be an investigation into how the government colluded with industry to push these body scanners on us. I think it would expose a lot more than lobbying the government and it might even expose how the Christmas underwear was a hoax.


--airspoon

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reply posted on 23-11-2010 @ 11:26 AM by marg6043
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I can see the big pharma salivating at the intense and incredible possibilities, more killer drugs to keep you alive enough to make profits our of your suffering, while treating you for conditions caused by the greed of the few, with enough power and money to do so.
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