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U.S. Government Glossed Over Cancer Concerns As It Rolled Out Airport X-Ray Scanners
A 1998 safety panel was reassured X-ray body scanners wouldn't see widespread use. Today, despite having a safer alternative that the U.S. government deems highly effective, the Transportation Security Administration is marching millions of airline passengers through the scanners, parting ways with European countries that concluded radiation from routine airport use poses a health risk.
Update (11/11): The FDA has responded to this story.
Update (11/01): This story has been updated with a comment from The Chertoff Group, from which ProPublica had sought comment before publication.
A PBS NewsHour story on X-ray body scanners, reported in conjunction with ProPublica, aired on Dec. 1.
On Sept. 23, 1998, a panel of radiation safety experts gathered at a Hilton hotel in Maryland to evaluate a new device that could detect hidden weapons and contraband. The machine, known as the Secure 1000, beamed X-rays at people to see underneath their clothing.
One after another, the experts convened by the Food and Drug Administration raised questions about the machine because it violated a longstanding principle in radiation safety — that humans shouldn't be X-rayed unless there is a medical benefit.
"I think this is really a slippery slope," said Jill Lipoti, who was the director of New Jersey's radiation protection program. The device was already deployed in prisons; what was next, she and others asked — courthouses, schools, airports? "I am concerned … with expanding this type of product for the traveling public," said another panelist, Stanley Savic, the vice president for safety at a large electronics company. "I think that would take this thing to an entirely different level of public health risk."
The machine's inventor, Steven W. Smith, assured the panelists that it was highly unlikely that the device would see widespread use in the near future. At the time, only 20 machines were in operation in the entire country.
"The places I think you are not going to see these in the next five years is lower-security facilities, particularly power plants, embassies, courthouses, airports and governments," Smith said. "I would be extremely surprised in the next five to 10 years if the Secure 1000 is sold to any of these."
Today, the United States has begun marching millions of airline passengers through the X-ray body scanners, parting ways with countries in Europe and elsewhere that have concluded that such widespread use of even low-level radiation poses an unacceptable health risk. The government is rolling out the X-ray scanners despite having a safer alternative that the Transportation Security Administration says is also highly effective.
A ProPublica/PBS NewsHour investigation of how this decision was made shows that in post-9/11 America, security issues can trump even long-established medical conventions. The final call to deploy the X-ray machines was made not by the FDA, which regulates drugs and medical devices, but by the TSA, an agency whose primary mission is to prevent terrorist attacks.
Research suggests that anywhere from six to 100 U.S. airline passengers each year could get cancer from the machines. Still, the TSA has repeatedly defined the scanners as "safe," glossing over the accepted scientific view that even low doses of ionizing radiation — the kind beamed directly at the body by the X-ray scanners — increase the risk of cancer.
"Even though it's a very small risk, when you expose that number of people, there's a potential for some of them to get cancer," said Kathleen Kaufman, the former radiation management director in Los Angeles County, who brought the prison X-rays to the FDA panel's attention.
About 250 X-ray scanners are currently in U.S. airports, along with 264 body scanners that use a different technology, a form of low-energy radio waves known as millimeter waves.
Robin Kane, the TSA's assistant administrator for security technology, said that no one would get cancer because the amount of radiation the X-ray scanners emit is minute. Having both technologies is important to create competition, he added.
"It's a really, really small amount relative to the security benefit you're going to get," Kane said. "Keeping multiple technologies in play is very worthwhile for the U.S. in getting that cost-effective solution — and being able to increase the capabilities of technology because you keep everyone trying to get the better mousetrap."
Determined to fill a critical hole in its ability to detect explosives, the TSA plans to have one or the other operating at nearly every security lane in America by 2014. The TSA has designated the scanners for "primary" screening: Officers will direct every passenger, including children, to go through either a metal detector or a body scanner, and the passenger's only alternative will be to request a physical pat-down.
How did the United States swing from considering such X-rays taboo to deeming them safe enough to scan millions of people a year?
A new wave of terrorist attacks using explosives concealed on the body, coupled with the scanners' low dose of radiation, certainly convinced many radiation experts that the risk was justified.
But other factors helped the machines gain acceptance.
Because of a regulatory Catch-22, the airport X-ray scanners have escaped the oversight required for X-ray machines used in doctors' offices and hospitals. The reason is that the scanners do not have a medical purpose, so the FDA cannot subject them to the rigorous evaluation it applies to medical devices.
Still, the FDA has limited authority to oversee some non-medical products and can set mandatory safety regulations. But the agency let the scanners fall under voluntary standards set by a nonprofit group heavily influenced by industry.
As for the TSA, it skipped a public comment period required before deploying the scanners. Then, in defending them, it relied on a small body of unpublished research to insist the machines were safe, and ignored contrary opinions from U.S. and European authorities that recommended precautions, especially for pregnant women. Finally, the manufacturer, Rapiscan Systems, unleashed an intense and sophisticated lobbying campaign, ultimately winning large contracts.
Both the FDA and TSA say due diligence has been done to assure the scanners' safety. Rapiscan says it won the contract because its technology is superior at detecting threats. While the TSA says X-ray and millimeter-wave scanners are both effective, Germany decided earlier this year not to roll out millimeter-wave machines after finding they produced too many false positives.
Most of the news coverage on body scanners has focused on privacy, because the machines can produce images showing breasts and buttocks. But the TSA has since installed software to make the images less graphic. While some accounts have raised the specter of radiation, this is the first report to trace the history of the scanners and document the gaps in regulation that allowed them to avoid rigorous safety evaluation.
Little research on cancer risk of body scanners
Humans are constantly exposed to ionizing radiation, a form of energy that has been shown to strip electrons from atoms, damage DNA and mutate genes, potentially leading to cancer. Most radiation comes from radon, a gas produced from naturally decaying elements in the ground. Another major source is cosmic radiation from outer space. Many common items, such as smoke detectors, contain tiny amounts of radioactive material, as do exit signs in schools and office buildings.
As a result, the cancer risk from any one source of radiation is often small. Outside of nuclear accidents, such as that at Japan's Fukushima plant, and medical errors, the health risk comes from cumulative exposure.
In Rapiscan's Secure 1000 scanner, which uses ionizing radiation, a passenger stands between two large blue boxes and is scanned with a pencil X-ray beam that rapidly moves left to right and up and down the body. In the other machine, ProVision, made by defense contractor L-3 Communications, a passenger enters a chamber that looks like a round phone booth and is scanned with millimeter waves, a form of low-energy radio waves, which have not been shown to strip electrons from atoms or cause cancer.
Only a decade ago, many states prohibited X-raying a person for anything other than a medical exam. Even after 9/11, such non-medical X-raying remains taboo in most of the industrialized world. In July, the European Parliament passed a resolution that security "scanners using ionizing radiation should be prohibited" because of health risks. Although the United Kingdom uses the X-ray machine for limited purposes, such as when passengers trigger the metal detector, most developed countries have decided to forgo body scanners altogether or use only the millimeter-wave machines.
While the research on medical X-rays could fill many bookcases, the studies that have been done on the airport X-ray scanners, known as backscatters, fill a file no more than a few inches thick. None of the main studies cited by the TSA has been published in a peer-reviewed journal, the gold standard for scientific research.
Those tests show that the Secure 1000 delivers an extremely low dose of radiation, less than 10 microrems. The dose is roughly one-thousandth of a chest X-ray and equivalent to the cosmic radiation received in a few minutes of flying at typical cruising altitude. The TSA has used those measurements to say the machines are "safe."
Most of what researchers know about the long-term health effects of low levels of radiation comes from studies of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By charting exposure levels and cancer cases, researchers established a linear link that shows the higher the exposure, the greater risk of cancer.
Some scientists argue the danger is exaggerated. They claim low levels stimulate the repair mechanism in cells, meaning that a little radiation might actually be good for the body.
But in the authoritative report on low doses of ionizing radiation, published in 2006, the National Academy of Sciences reviewed the research and concluded that the preponderance of research supported the linear link. It found "no compelling evidence" that there is any level of radiation at which the risk of cancer is zero.
Radiation experts say the dose from the backscatter is negligible when compared to naturally occurring background radiation. Speaking to the 1998 FDA panel, Smith, the inventor, compared the increased risk to choosing to visit Denver instead of San Diego or the decision to wear a sweater versus a sport coat.
Using the linear model, even such trivial amounts increase the number of cancer cases. Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a radiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, estimated that the backscatters would lead to only six cancers over the course of a lifetime among the approximately 100 million people who fly every year. David Brenner, director of Columbia University's Center for Radiological Research, reached a higher number — potentially 100 additional cancers every year.
"Why would we want to put ourselves in this uncertain situation where potentially we're going to have some cancer cases?" Brenner asked. "It makes me think, really, why don't we use millimeter waves when we don't have so much uncertainty?"
But even without the machines, Smith-Bindman said, the same 100 million people would develop 40 million cancers over the course of their lifetimes. In this sea of cancer cases, it would be impossible to identify the patients whose cancer is linked to the backscatter machines.
How the scanners avoided strict oversight
Although they deliberately expose humans to radiation, the airport X-ray scanners are not medical devices, so they are not subject to the stringent regulations required for diagnostic X-ray machines.
If they were, the manufacturer would have to submit clinical data showing safety and effectiveness and be approved through a rigorous process by the FDA. If the machines contained radioactive material, they would have to report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
But because it didn't fit into either category, the Secure 1000 was classified as an electronic product. The FDA does not review or approve the safety of such products. However, manufacturers must provide a brief radiation safety report explaining the dose and notify the agency if any overexposure is discovered. According to the FDA, no such incidents have been reported.
Under its limited oversight of electronic products, the FDA could issue mandatory safety regulations. But it didn't do so, a decision that flows from its history of supervising electronics.
Regulation of electronic products in the United States began after a series of scandals. From the 1930s to the 1950s, it was common for a child to go to a shoe store and stand underneath an X-ray machine known as a fluoroscope to check whether a shoe was the right fit. But after cases arose of a shoe model's leg being amputated and store clerks developing dermatitis from putting their hands in the beam to adjust the shoe, the practice ended.
In 1967, General Electric recalled 90,000 color televisions that had been sold without the proper shielding, potentially exposing viewers to dangerous levels of radiation. The scandal prompted the creation of the federal Bureau of Radiological Health.
"That ultimately led to a lot more aggressive program," said John Villforth, who was the director of the bureau. Over the next decade, the bureau created federal safety standards for televisions, medical X-rays, microwaves, tanning beds, even laser light shows.
But in 1982, the FDA merged the radiological health bureau into its medical-device unit.
"I was concerned that if they were to combine the two centers into one, it would probably mean the ending of the radiation program because the demands for medical-device regulation were becoming increasingly great," said Villforth, who was put in charge of the new Center for Devices and Radiological Health. "As I sort of guessed, the radiation program took a big hit."
The new unit became stretched for scarce resources as it tried to deal with everything from tongue depressors to industrial lasers. The government used to have 500 people examining the safety of electronic products emitting radiation. It now has about 20 people. In fact, the FDA has not set a mandatory safety standard for an electronic product since 1985.
As a result, there is an FDA safety regulation for X-rays scanning baggage — but none for X-rays scanning people at airports.
Meanwhile, scientists began developing backscatter X-rays, in which the waves are reflected off an object to a detector, for the security industry.
The Secure 1000 people scanner was invented by Smith in 1991 and later sold to Rapiscan, then a small security firm based in southern California. The first major customer was the California prison system, which began scanning visitors to prevent drugs and weapons from getting in. But the state pulled the devices in 2001 after a group of inmates' wives filed a class-action lawsuit accusing the prisons of violating their civil liberties.
The U.S. Customs Service deployed backscatter machines for several years but in limited fashion and with strict supervision. Travelers suspected of carrying contraband had to sign a consent form, and Customs policy prohibited the scanning of pregnant women. The agency abandoned them in 2006, not for safety reasons but because smugglers had learned where the machines were installed and adapted their methods to avoid them, said Rick Whitman, the radiation safety officer for Customs until 2008.
Yet, even this limited application of X-ray scanning for security dismayed radiation safety experts. In 1999, the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, a nongovernmental organization, passed a resolution recommending that such screening be stopped immediately.
The backscatter machines had also caught the attention of the 1998 FDA advisory panel, which recommended that the FDA establish government safety regulations for people scanners. Instead, the FDA decided to go with a voluntary standard set by a trade group largely comprising manufacturers and government agencies that wanted to use the machines.
"Establishing a mandatory standard takes an enormous amount of resources and could take a decade to publish," said Dan Kassiday, a longtime radiation safety engineer at the FDA.
In addition, since the mid-1990s, Congress has directed federal safety agencies to use industry standards wherever possible instead of creating their own.
The FDA delegated the task of establishing the voluntary standards to the American National Standards Institute. A private nonprofit that sets standards for many industries, ANSI convened a committee of the Health Physics Society, a trade group of radiation safety specialists. It was made up of 15 people, including six representatives of manufacturers of X-ray body scanners and five from U.S. Customs and the California prison system. There were few government regulators and no independent scientists.
In contrast, the FDA advisory panel was also made up of 15 people — five representatives from government regulatory agencies, four outside medical experts, one labor representative and five experts from the electronic products industry, but none from the scanner manufacturers themselves.
"I am more comfortable with having a regulatory agency — either federal or the states — develop the standards and enforce them," Kaufman said. Such regulators, she added, "have only one priority, and that's public health."
A representative of the Health Physics Society committee said that was its main priority as well. Most of the committee's evaluation was completed before 9/11. The standard was published in 2002 and updated with minor changes in 2009.
Ed Bailey, chief of California's radiological health branch at the time, said he was the lone voice opposing the use of the machines. But after 9/11, his views changed about what was acceptable in pursuit of security.
"The whole climate of their use has changed," Bailey said. "The consequence of something being smuggled on an airplane is far more serious than somebody getting drugs into a prison."
Are Inspections Independent?
While the TSA doesn't regulate the machines, it must seek public input before making major changes to security procedures. In July, a federal appeals court ruled that the agency failed to follow rule-making procedures and solicit public comment before installing body scanners at airports across the country. TSA spokesman Michael McCarthy said the agency couldn't comment on ongoing litigation.
The TSA asserts there is no need to take additional precautions for sensitive populations, even pregnant women, following the guidance of the congressionally chartered National Council on Radiation Protection & Measurements.
But other authorities have come to the opposite conclusion. A report by France's radiation safety agency specifically warned against screening pregnant women with the X-ray devices. In addition, the Federal Aviation Administration's medical institute has advised pregnant pilots and flight attendants that the machine, coupled with their time in the air, could put them over their occupational limit for radiation exposure and that they might want to adjust their work schedules accordingly.
No similar warning has been issued for pregnant frequent fliers.
Even as people scanners became more widespread, government oversight actually weakened in some cases.
Inspections of X-ray equipment in hospitals and industry are the responsibility of state regulators — and before 9/11, many states also had the authority to randomly inspect machines in airports. But that ended when the TSA took over security checkpoints from the airlines.
Instead, annual inspections are done by Rapiscan, the scanners' manufacturer.
"As a regulator, I think there's a conflict of interest in having the manufacturer and the facility inspect themselves," Kaufman said.
Last year, in reaction to public anger from members of Congress, passengers and advocates, the TSA contracted with the Army Public Health Command to do independent radiation surveys. But email messages obtained in a lawsuit brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a civil liberties group, raise questions about the independence of the Army surveys.
One email sent by TSA health and safety director Jill Segraves shows that local TSA officials were given advance notice and allowed to "pick and choose" which systems the Army could check.
That email also suggests that Segraves considered the Army inspectors a valuable public-relations asset: "They are our radiation myth busters," she wrote to a local security director.
Some TSA screeners are concerned about their own radiation exposure from the backscatters, but the TSA has not allowed them to wear badges that could measure it, said Milly Rodriguez, health and safety specialist for the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents TSA officers.
"We have heard from members that sometimes the technicians tell them that the machines are emitting more radiation than is allowed," she said.
McCarthy, the TSA spokesman, said the machines are physically incapable of producing radiation above the industry standard. On the email, he said, the inspections allow screeners to ask questions about radiation and address concerns about specific machines.
The company's lobbying campaign
While the TSA maintains that the body scanners are essential to preventing attacks on airplanes, it only began rolling them out nine years after 9/11.
After the attempted shoe-bombing in December 2001, the federal government conducted a trial of a Rapiscan backscatter at the Orlando International Airport. But the revealing images drew protests that the machines amounted to a virtual strip search.
The TSA considered the scanners again after two Chechen women blew up Russian airliners in 2004. Facing a continued outcry over privacy, the TSA instead moved forward with a machine known as a "puffer" because it released several bursts of air on the passengers' clothes and analyzed the dislodged particles for explosives. But after discovering the machines were ineffective in the field and difficult to maintain, the TSA canceled the program in 2006.
Around that time, Rapiscan began to beef up its lobbying on Capitol Hill. It opened a Washington, D.C., office and, according to required disclosures, more than tripled its lobbying expenditures in two years, from less than $130,000 in 2006 to nearly $420,000 in 2008. It hired former legislative aides to Rep. David Price, D-N.C., then chairman of the homeland security appropriations subcommittee, and to Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss.
It started a political action committee and began contributing heavily to Price; Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., then head of the homeland security committee; Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., also on that committee; and Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., the top Republican on the Senate appropriations committee.
In addition, it opened a new North Carolina plant in Price's district and expanded its operations in Ocean Springs, Miss., and at its headquarters in Torrance, Calif., in Harman's district.
"Less than a month after U.S. Senator Trent Lott and other local leaders helped officially open Rapiscan Systems' new Ocean Springs factory," Lott's office announced in a news release in late 2006, "the company has won a $9.1 million Department of Defense contract."
But Rapiscan still hadn't landed a major contract to roll out its X-ray body scanners in commercial airports. Indeed, in 2007, with new privacy filters in place, the TSA began a trial of millimeter-wave and backscatter machines at several major airports, after which the agency opted to go with the millimeter-wave machines. The agency said health concerns weren't a factor.
But with the 2009 federal stimulus package, which provided $300 million for checkpoint security machines, the TSA began deploying backscatters as well. Rapiscan won a $173 million, multiyear contract for the backscatters, with an initial $25 million order for 150 systems to be made in Mississippi.
Three other companies — American Science & Engineering, Tek84 Engineering Group and Valley Forge Composite Technologies — make X-ray scanners, but none are used by the TSA.Peter Kant, executive vice president for Rapiscan, said the company expanded its lobbying because its business was increasingly affected by the government.
"There's a lot of misinformation about the technology; there's a lot of questions about how various inspection technologies work," he said. "And we needed a way to be able to provide that information and explain the technology and how it works, and that's what lobbying is."
The lawmakers either declined to comment or said the lobbying, campaign contributions and local connections had nothing to do with the TSA's decision to purchase Rapiscan machines. The TSA said the contract was bid competitively and that the winning machines had to undergo comprehensive research and testing phases before being deployed.
While the scanners were appearing in more and more airports, few passengers went through them, because they were used mostly for random screening or to resolve alarms from the metal detector.
That changed on Christmas Day 2009, when a Nigerian man flying to Detroit tried to ignite a pouch of explosives hidden in his underwear.
Following the foiled "Great Balls of Fire" suicide bombing, as the New York Postdubbed it, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ramped up plans to roll out body scanners nationwide. Members of Congress and aviation security experts also pushed heavily for the TSA to install more machines that could detect explosives on passengers.
Harman sent a letter to Napolitano, noting that Rapiscan was in her district.
"I urge you to expedite installation of scanning machines in key airports," Harman wrote in the letter, which was first reported by the website CounterPunch. "If you need additional funds, I am ready to help."
Michael Chertoff, who had supported body scanners while secretary of Homeland Security, appeared frequently on TV advocating their use. In one interview, he disclosed that his consulting firm, Chertoff Group, had done work for Rapiscan, sparking accusations that he was trying to profit from his time as a government servant.
Despite the criticism, little has been revealed about the relationship. Rapiscan dismissed it, asserting that the consulting work had to do with international cargo and port security issues — not aviation.
"There was nothing that was not above board," Kant said. "His comments about passenger screening and these machines were simply his own and was nothing that we had engaged the Chertoff Group for."
In a statement, the Chertoff Group said it "played no role in the sale of whole body imaging technology to TSA" and that Chertoff "was in no way compensated for his public statements."
A public records request by ProPublica turned up empty: The Department of Homeland Security said it could not find any correspondence to or from Chertoff related to body scanners. DHS also said Chertoff did not use email.
The TSA plans to deploy 1,275 backscatter and millimeter-wave scanners covering more than half its security lanes by the end of 2012 and 1,800 covering nearly all the lanes by 2014.
According to annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, OSI Systems, the parent company of Rapiscan, has seen revenue from its security division more than double since 2006 to nearly $300 million in fiscal year 2011.
Miles O'Brien and Kate Tobin of PBS NewsHour contributed to this report.
Correction (11/1): An earlier version of this story said that an email in which the TSA health and safety director said inspectors were "radiation myth busters" incorrectly identified them as Rapiscan's inspectors. The story should have said they were inspectors from the Army Public Health Command.
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ProVision, made by defense contractor L-3 Communications….this one, based on your article seems safe….doesn't indicate that it is X-ray but rather millimeter waves, a form of low-energy radio waves, which have not been shown to strip electrons from atoms or cause cancer. This is the machine that I encounter many times and the TSA people say I get more radiation from my cell phone.
Help me on this as I have had the max does of RADs (the old term) in the 50s when nuclear medicine was done for everything. remember the x-ray machines for flitting shoes?
The fact that the scanners might harm people is less important than the fact this administration refuses to profile young muslim males. Granny's get groped while muslim males skate through.
Ok, so let's review:
Scanners that emit RADIATION are not regulary checked or calibrated by anyone other than the maufacturer, Rapicscan
TSA employees, who work in close proximity to scanners, NOT ALLOWED to wear radiation detection badges
Anyone else slightly scared by this? When you go to the hospital, or dentist, to have an XRay, the techincian goes into the other room and you are wearing a lead apron to protect you. There are hundreds of accidents involving radiation overdose in hospitals, yet we are trusting non-medical personnel to maintain, test, and run these things? How the hell would we even know if one of these things is leaking radiation? Because they said so? Oh, sure why would they lie? Betcha when the cancer lawsuits start coming the govt will figure out a way to protect the manufacturer, all in the name of "security". What a bunch of crap. The ironic thing is these or any other scanner could not have detected the underwear bomber's bomb. If someone puts an explosive in their body cavity it won't be seen either. Perfect example of corruption, Rapiscan gets the contract, follow the money to the Senator who pushed it, see what you find out.
Sam, I am a young Muslim male. Want to profile me? I have never held a gun in my life, I have never played Call of Duty, and I hate violence so much I'm practically a pacifist. The idea of taking life away from another human disgusts me beyond words. Life is precious. The Quran says this, and is a book of peace and love not unlike the Bible. You, my friend, are a racist.
to Ronald Paul and Sam:
Ron, get real. Not all muslims are terrorists but all terrorists (so far) have been muslims. Sam is correct, there is no point targeting old ladies in wheelchairs but allowing muslim folks (men or women) to breeze through because we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. Hurt feelings are the LAST thing I am worrying about when it comes to flight safety. Get it? I believe you are what you say you are, but unfortunately for you, other muslims are not. So, when the peace-loving Muslim community stands up and says "no more" and calls these murderers to task, we have no other choice.
Bomb-sniffing dogs cause no cancer, do not invade privacy, and are more effective. Scanners cannot detect explosives with tapered edges or those concealed in body cavities. In contrast trained dogs can even detect cell phones prisoners attempt to smuggle inside body cavities. Why aren't dogs used? Follow the money.
I'm not sure about the health issues here—if the levels of radiation exposure are as low as reported, an occasional trip through the machine would not appear to add significantly to what a person already experiences in nature (or in flying). But I'll leave that part of it to experts to debate. What is clear is that the Democrats have disregarded established procedure. If it had been the GOP in power doing this, Democrats would be suing and screaming about bypassing public commenting procedure, cronyism (a manufacturing plant in the District of the head Dem of the House committee?), etc. But no, they are too busy supporting Obama's bypass of Congressional authorization to spend stimulus money to notice this little issue. It does appear that, to the left, procedure and due process is something to use to thwart the other side when they are in power, but something to ignore when you hold the power yourselves.
Is anyone really surprised ? Anything to get the police state in full swing. Ron Paul 2012 for restoration & LIBERTY.
Danielle, you have just made one of the most absurd claims I have ever heard! All terrorists are Muslims? DID I SERIOUSLY JUST HEAR THAT? Ever heard of Timothy McVeigh? How about the King David Hotel Bombings? Baruch Goldstein ring a bell? That list is just off the top of my head! If I did a little digging, I could probably find hundreds of terrorist attacks carried out by Christians and Jews.
My family and I refuse the scanners and opt for the pat down.
The rule of thumb has always been that no level of radiation exposure comes without consequences. The higher the dose the more damage is done. Here's another well know fact for all of you frequent fliers: Radiation has an accumulative effect. That means that several small doses have the same effect as one large dose. Keep adding them up and your chances of contracting cancer skyrocket. Remember the old x-ray scanners in shoe stores? In this case, what you can't see will hurt you, very severely. The TSA agents are being lied to and should demand that they are issued radiation monitoring devices as required by law in all 50 states. If it were up to me, getting sexually molested is a lot safer then getting exposed to ionizing radiation. It's just too bad that the governments knee jerk decision to use these cancer machines will kill a lot of Americans.
What happened to the Constitution?? Have we just thrown that out, or are the loss of our rights guaranteed by the Constitution considered a "relatively minor" compared to terrorist activity?
So, who should we be more concerned about, foreign terrorists, or the American terrorists that would rather see our Constitution thrown out?
Millimeter waves are microwaves. Das Homeland Security gives the bovine public 2 choices - a trip through a whole body X-ray machine or a zap in a microwave oven. It's your bodies. Why are you allowing these monsters to do this? I've seen this all before, and it always ends ugly. Wake up, Americans. Your time is running out.
Why is anyone trusting what these money makers are claiming? I haven't been on an airplane since 9/11 and probably won't be flying ever again. Has everyone been on youtube to watch obama's speech on depopulation? If not, you should!
The backscatter machines radiate you on the outside,
and the millimeter-wave machines radiate you on the inside.
Please opt out.
Please sign the petition:
To Danielle: You have nailed it. "[Until] the peace-loving Muslim community stands up and says "no more" and calls these murderers to task, we have no other choice."
Exactly right. That is the only reasonable position.
To Ronald Paul (Ron Paul??): As a "young Muslim male," have YOU stood up publicly to denounce the violence of the jihadist terrorists? Or is that too dangerous because they would just as soon murder YOU as they would murder we "infidels?"
I have had breast cancer and more than my lifetime dose of radiation. These scanners scare the bejeebers out of me and yet I don't particularly want to be assaulted physically. I need to fly several times a year. What to do?
Like always the Federal Government finds the most inefficient way to handle the Social Security y Medicare underfunded problem, when the simple implementation of the "Soylent Green" methodology will do.
To Riquin:
LOL. Yeah, sure. Or maybe Logan's Run.
Personal business gain was surely more important than so called air travel safety by setting up those unhealthy machines, how many lives have been saved in the air and how many died on the ground?
Good parts of all the governments of the world, especially, firstly the ones under indirect or direct control of our North-American power should just become aware of the public servants with terroristically re-acting mindset and then, despite inevtably occurring few accidents (should be taken easy like natural disasters which are cosmic activities beyond human conrtol), civilians world-wide would feel more naturally happy and secured than these tough, expensive but unhealthy securities can provide.
Good and bad, the powers of both sides of errorists are also like bacterias, similar to many creatures and creations.
We need to be wise and relax, because the more powerful antibiotics we try to administer, the more stronger they become against controllers and that's how the creator of cosmos (outside the reach of any of the religions-manmaid old form of politics by making each human individual blind inside the head by it's vulnerable by default belief-system) programmed things on which we human very temporary control for a limited time-being.
Opps, got sucked into another negative media driven discussion.
oh,well, .
I wonder why do we fall for for all the negatives for something we once demanded that this country needed to do to protect us from the evil ways of the world?..
I personally, not being a daily or close to flyer would strip to my birthday suit to keep someone with a bomb tucked inside his ath from actually going off and bring my life to a tragic end that could be avoided.. Besides every breath we take removes seconds from our life in this oxegen polluted air.
I believe the goverment keep trying to make every attempt to protect us from such a tragic end safely but what do you think will be the end results if these safe guards are not in place?
I would like to ask anyone who complains beyond just complaining what are you going to say to yourself if you wife,husband, kids or parents die from a terrorist act because you demanded relaxed boarding…If your so worried about the radiation then avoid the sun for a while as well as every electronic creation made including your computer and screen…p.s don't breath and keep pumping that gas into your home and car!
Heck with it, I'll take the risk for a safer and less risky flight!
Remember Neocon Chertoff and his Lobby?
Homeland Gestapo, Police State of America
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I recently had to make a decision about the scanner in Newark. I immediately chose to have an alternate screen, having worked in radiation programs at EPA, I know that there is no "safe" dose of radiation.
Having made that choice, I realized that the TSA agents hated me for it. I was never addressed as "ma'am" but rather only with brusque imperatives "Come here. Stand here. Legs wide." The place for such alternate frisks (the only appropriate word to use) is directly in the path of those exiting, to make sure, I'm guessing, that I am made an example of. My midriff was exposed by the TSA agent (guessing deliberately). Next time, I will ask for a private screening with a 3rd person present.
I never thought I'd have to be treated as a criminal to board a plan, but here we are.
Wow, This makes me want to fly even less. To think these politicians are failing to realize they're going to kill American Citizens all in the name of SECURITY. There are better ways of Securing our air ways. Let's think about this for just a moment. There are guns made of polymers that are not detectable by metal detectors and are easily concealed, There are Explosives that cannot be detected when they're form fitting in design by these scanners. I'd rather have a detection dog sniff me over then step one foot into one of these scanners. And to our Politicians EVEN ALLOWING THIS. You should go through FIRST!
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Danielle, you said all terrorists so far have been Muslims. So Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski, and Anders Behring Breivik were all Muslims? Who knew?
Ronald Paul:
If you read my comments, you would have noticed I said SO FAR. I am not discounting Tim McVeigh or any of the other terrorists. HOWEVER, and I beg you to use common sense here, when was the last time a Jewish, (or any other group NOT muslim) perpetrated an assault on Americans? Baurch was a one time thing by a seriously disturbed individual, and was immediately denounced by those of Israel, collectively, done. (Same with McVieigh) The muslim terrorists are a systemic problem with a collective group, being sanctioned and goaded by egotistical religious leaders. They make no secret of it, nor do they pretend like they are NOT muslim. So, yes, for all intents and purposes, SO FAR ALL THE CURRENT (BETTER?) TERRORISTS ARE MUSLIMS.
Thank you for this well-written piece of journalism.
I don't trust the government to tell the truth about ANYTHING and will never go into their radiation oven. They lie about inflation, unemployment, white house visits, running thousands of guns to drug cartels, the fake wars - all lies and spin designed to enrich themselves and their friends.
Let's face it. They're trying to kill us.
Here is another thing, say God forbid and something happens on your flight. TSA is not tracking who is being additionally screen (either by pat down or scanner). Yet they have all the ticket history info, DOB, sex, etc… Plus even a scanner needs a person to look at the image and say 'all clear'. That's not very effective on our bags (stuff routinely gets by still) , so how effective on a persons?
Steve, get real. How the hell can you screen AT THE AIRPORT for that is what we are currently talking about, no?, for someone like Ted Kaczynski who was a loner and acted through the mail? Anders Breivik? Seriously? Airport security, let's stay on topic, OK? There will always be crazy loons who do things like these people. I am talking about a religious group who is claiming a jihad against us, not some nut we have no way of profiling. We know who the terrorist are that want to harm us, they have told us very clearly through the media, etc. So to plainly ignore that and say "well, there are other terrorist…blah blah" is so ridiculous and PC it's no wonder we have the likes of the TSA irradiating the public at large.
The TSA needs to be dismantled immediately. 68,000 thousand people with an inflated sense of self importance sucking up paychecks and yet they have failed to catch a single terrorist. Shut it down and send those death machines to China to be dismantled.
All the terrorists are muslim?!? That's a very ignorant comment there. Timothy McVeigh? Baruch Goldstein? Gush Emunim? Sicarii? Kingdom of Israel? IRA? Anders Behring Brievik? KKK?!? Lambs of Christ?
What's happened to the left? I used to believe I could always count on them to take the "civil liberties over security" position and protect the public from government overreach. Now it seems that nobody on the left will speak up. I shudder to contemplate that its because they are now the ones in charge. But its hard not to draw that conclusion, because I remember the days when the president initiating hostilities without congressional approval would be called a war crime . . . where are all the anti-war protesters now? I remember when insider dealing was called out. Now we get silence. I'm starting to worry for the republic . . .
More Profiling
Less X rays….
They could use scientology to cure their thetan problems…..
The US Government insisted these scanners are safe (apparently without testing), but then this is the same government that insisted shoe-store fluoroscopes (seen above) were safe in the 1940s and 1950s. The US Surgeon General actually created educational films promoting the use of these machines for proper foot health.
Then in the 1960s, shoe store salesmen started dying of cancer. Yet it still took the government until 1981 to remove all the fluoroscopes from US shoe stores. (One such machine is shown in the 1967 Michael Caine film, "Billion Dollar Brain")
Follow the money. The technology is not safe over a long term, otherwise, Ms. Napolitano should prove it by spending 8 hours a day, 7 days a week for one month standing in one with a radiation dosage badge to prove it.
As to Ronald Paul, who claims to be a Muslim, peace loving, the religion to which he is an adherent is not peace loving. I note he came up with three examples of terrorism committed by non-Muslims. That's about the number of incidents an hour in Afghanistan and Pakistan against their own people by fellow Muslims.
Anyone who believes that Islam is a religion of peace does not read, or watch TV, or had a family member who has served in a Muslim country.
Just another CAIR propagandist spouting half truths.
I have seen myself the prejudice against anyone but Muslims by TSA, and the overreaching violation of our 4th, 9th and 14th Amendment rights whilst these threats to our society and our persons are allowed to skate through without so much as a pat down.
Profiling is not a violation of constitutional rights. The religion has earned the rep that justifies the need to focus on Muslims as potential threats.
Only in CA and DC does anyone believe that Islam is a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war—the U.S. and every other nation not under Islam is dar al Harb—land of war.
Oh…I'm shocked….(can you feel the sarcasm?)
Chertoff had some scanners lined up in a sweet financial deal. The only problem up until that time is that there were no significant attempted terrorists attacks. Low and behold, they created one with the "underwear bomber" and BAM, we get cancer scanners in the airports and Chertoff makes a killing. What? You say you never heard about the fact that our intelligence services got this drugged kid on a plane with no ID and no passport with a dud bomb? See this from and eye witness:
You want to know who the crazies are who will commit terrorism?
My number one candidates are the ultra conservatives of any religion, especially Christians.
For number two I nominate radical members of the National Rifle Association and racial supremacists.
Number three are the political radicals, especially those from the far right.
Finally I nominate any combination of the above plus I would include some outliers who have a real mental illness.
Not mentioned are the scanners they have erected at shipping ports and ports of entry from Canada and Mexico. Drivers are not even given the choice of opting out of that scan. How many hundreds of thousands of trucks go through there on a daily basis? Some of them making regular runs… Who's protecting our drivers??
So Ronald Paul, which one are you doing? Al-taqiyya or Kitman? You would say 'neither' perhaps. Not lying as a means to an end, allowed if to 'non-believers'... but if you say "no" and lying is allowed or even encouraged, now will anyone trust your answer? Not all Muslims are terrorists. But so far "all the recent terrorists have been Muslims!"
America is making a big mistake not taking the statements clearly made in the Quran.
The U.S. also got radiation from Japan's 3 nuclear meltdowns, where the radiation travelled on the jet stream to the U.S.
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OK this post is about myself. I am complying with what a few of you have requested of me.
I am publicly denouncing terrorists right here, right now. Violence is never the solution, and I urge my Muslim Brothers and Sisters across the Globe to find Allah's peace in their hearts. After all, peace in Arabic is Salam (Islam, salam, gettit?). I always tell my friends the truth about these terrorists: they represent and extreme fringe in the Muslim community. Muslims as a group denounce their actions. It is so sad to see a peaceful religion stray so far from it's base. At the core, Islam, Christianity and Judaism are really exactly the same. We are all People of the Book. END hatred and discrimination as well as terrorism.
Hey "Fred." Get a freaking life, moron. "Christian terrorists?????" You have GOT to be kidding us. "NRA???" "Far Right radicals???" Go to an "Occupy" tent city, and find out who the REAL radicals are. As well as who the "useful idiots" really are.
This is such a HUGE disservice to INFORMED public discourse.
The amount of radiation dose from a SINGLE scan is about a thousand times LESS than the radiation dose a passenger receives on a coast-to-coast flight and who—by the way—thinks nothing of such a dose and rightly so!
The method used to CONJURE fake! cancer deaths is a concept called "collective dose" and it works this way: (a) a group of people is assumed to have received individual doses of radiation. (b) the total "collective" dose received by that entire group—generally thousands to millions of people—is all added up to determine the "fatal cancer risk" due to receiving THAT collective dose ... EVEN THO NO ONE received that dose. (c) So out of a million people receiving an infinitesimally small individual dose—a COMPLETELY FICTITIOUS person or group of people are given the entire dose and hence some fatal cancer risk. SCIENTIFICALLY BOGUS AND COMPLETELY WITHOUT ANY BASIS IN REALITY.
Consider using this example with Aspirin: Let's say 100 people are given 1 aspirin each. Now the Collective Dose Advocates would say that given a "lethal aspirin dose" of 20 aspirins, 5 fictitious people will die, EVEN THO everyone of those 100 people who had 1 single aspirin are COMPLETELY fine and probably have fewer headaches and less heart attack risk.
Please don't be fooled by this collective dose garbage!!
This second post will discuss the roots of terrorism.
I do admit that most terrorists are Muslims, however this does not hide the fact that there are extremist terrorists in all religions including Christianity and Judaism. The real question is, why? Why are Muslims driven to acts of violence. Now this directly links to my username, Ron Paul. He hits the nail on the head in terms of his foreign policy. We are not attacked because we are free or prosperous, as suggested by Rick Santorum. Let's go to the source here, just like Paul did. Osama bin Laden said in himself. He attacked the United States because we had based on his holy land in Saudi Arabia and we killed HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Iraqi civilians with the sanctions we imposed. You don't think that killing scores of civilians wouldn't drive some Muslims to violence? They see their brothers, friends, sisters, children killed by the Unites States and of course they feel angry. Then some crazy guy comes along and asks if he wants revenge, and unfortunately he answers yes, and he shows up in the news as a suicide bomber. The violence they resort to is of course not justified, however they aren't just born terrorists.
Follow the money! TSA must be getting $$ for BHO or this wouldn't happen.
"You want to know who the crazies are who will commit terrorism? My number one candidates are the ultra conservative…"
No. You're wrong on all counts. The government commits or encourages almost all acts of terrorism. The people are waking up, hence all this hype about the urgent need for internet censorship and kill switch. Cyber attacks? Who in their right mind would connect missiles or nuclear power plants to the open internet? It doesn't happen. They're losing control and getting desperate.
The FED - announced they're now monitoring social media
DHS - ditto
FBI/CIA - ditto
NYPD - ditto
UK government - ditto
I'm shocked, truly shocked that this administration would roll over the citizens of this country because they are so caring and sharing. Right?
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Body Scanners: Risking Health to Secure Airports
In an effort to detect explosives hidden under clothing, is the TSA jeopardizing passenger safety?
The Story So Far
The Transportation Security Administration is planning to roll out body scanners at nearly every airport security lane in the country by 2014. Right now, it has deployed more than 500, split about evenly between two technologies—one using X-rays and another using radio frequency waves.
Several prominent radiation safety experts have raised concerns about exposing millions of airline passengers to X-rays.


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Tasteful Selections LLC is partnering with 13-year-old chef Jack Witherspoon on recipes and videos.
The deal will support Jack's efforts to fund research for leukemia, a disease he has suffered from, according to a news release from Tasteful Selections, a joint venture of potato grower-shippers RPE, CSS Farms and Plover River Farms Alliance Inc.
Jack's recipes feature Tasteful Selections-branded specialty baby potatoes.
Tasteful Selections plans to post the recipes on its website and promote Jack's fundraising on social media. Giveaways on social media include Jack's award-winning cookbook, "Twist It Up," which features 60 of his favorite original recipes.
A portion of the cookbook's proceeds go his permanent endowment at Miller Children's Hospital in Long Beach, Calif., and to Beckstrand Foundation, where Jack is the pediatric spokesperson.
Jack began cooking to raise money for leukemia research when he was 6 and recovering from the disease. He has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Bonnie Hunt Show, The Queen Latifah Show, The Marie Osmond Show, the Rachael Ray Show and other TV shows.
"It's rewarding to support an inspiring young kid with such a worthy cause," Russell Wysocki, president and chief executive officer of RPE, said in the release. "Chef Jack's recipes highlight the health benefits of Tasteful Selections with simple preparations that encourage kids to prepare and enjoy potatoes."

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This article was published 24/11/2012 (1728 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Peter O'Kane was a rare and unique human being.
I first heard of Pete when he joined the police force almost 20 years ago. An escalating labour dispute, some mouthpiece shooting off his gate and a little overhand right. It was the perfect start to launch Pete's career in law enforcement.
If I had to pick one phrase to describe the Peter O'Kane that I knew, it would be "old school."
Pete was built for the job.
He had the hard-nosed belief that the streets of Winnipeg belonged to him and not the criminal scumbags that preyed on our vulnerable citizens.
Pete was the quintessential "sheepdog" protecting the sheep from the wolf.
Most cops will know what I'm talking about.
The mindset of a hard-nosed street cop is perfectly expressed by Lt.-Col. Dave Grossman, U.S. army (retired), an internationally recognized scholar, author, soldier, speaker and expert on human aggression and the roots of violence and violent crime.
"If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen: a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath -- a wolf. But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? Then you are a sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero's path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed."
If you've never heard it before, you should follow the link. It will help you understand the essence of Peter O'Kane: www.killology.com/sheep_dog.htm
In 2005, I was promoted to the rank of sergeant and transferred to general patrol in Division 11, downtown Winnipeg, to run the A3 Platoon.
When I took the job, my first priority was to "team build."
It was during this time that Pete approached me looking for a spot on my shift. My initial reaction could best be described as uncertain. I didn't know Pete very well at this point and I had concerns about this "cowboy" who always seemed to be in or around "the s ."
After doing a little research and receiving overwhelming endorsements, the choice became clear. Pete was a "gem" they told me and I'd be nuts if I didn't take him.
So I drafted him and never regretted it.
Pete's work ethic, commitment and dedication to the job was second to none. A guy who was always at work a minimum of half an hour before the shift started. There he was, doing his thing, getting organized, doing computer checks and talking s to the officers on the other shifts.
It always amazed me how Pete would call me and tell me he was running late only to show up 20 minutes before shift start. To Pete, that was late. I used to tell him that he didn't have to call me when he was going to be in late, not when his late was still early, but the message never got through, he always called anyway. He was stubborn that way.
Pete brought a lot to the table. He was a dream cop for a supervisor. I used to love how he would bust the balls of the young cops who would stroll into the shift briefings late or just seconds before the scheduled start time.
It was a thing of beauty.
Up one side and down the other, poor defenseless rookies getting their asses kicked by Pete for their lack of commitment to the job. The supervisors sitting mute, no need to address the issues, not when Pete O'Kane was in the house.
No one could tell a story quite like Pete. He regaled us at every shift briefing with his unique sense of humour injected into every tale.
I had a great bond with Pete.
My heroes growing up were Muhammad Ali, George Foreman and Sugar Ray Leonard.
I was a huge boxing fan, as was my father and brothers. We loved to train, spar and knock each other senseless. It was a natural connection for us.
I remember when Pete came into my office and got on the computer to show me a YouTube video of one of his fights on ESPN. After a couple of minutes, I diagnosed Pete as a typical Irish fighter. Tough as nails, iron chin and an inbred desire to trade with his opponents, even if it meant taking two or three shots to every one he gave.
After I watched the fight I said, "Nice defence, Peter." His reply: "Defence is overrated."
The fight game would take its toll on Pete, who found himself on the receiving end of an "intervention" orchestrated by several of his closest friends who grew concerned about the obvious damage that Pete was taking from the sport he so loved.
Pete's speech was becoming impaired and it was disconcerting to everyone.
It wouldn't be easy for Pete to hang 'em up, but he got the message.
I give those guys credit -- they probably saved his life.
Like the true champ he was, Pete took the speech impairment thing in stride. Never shy of dishing it out, Pete could take it, too. Cops are relentless trash talkers and Pete was one of the best.
Pete's speech impairment was often interpreted by citizens as alcohol impairment, a situation that provided great material for the guys who loved to mess with him.
It was always funny up to the point when Pete would threaten to make the trash-talkers piss blood. Once it went there, everybody just walked away. No one really wanted to be the first to find out if Pete meant it.
In 2008, I hired Pete to build a deck on the front of my residence.
It was during this time that I would see that Pete's work ethic and dedication to excellence was not just limited to his police career.
He showed up every day, early as expected, worked his ass off and refused to take breaks. My wife had to literally force him to stop his work and take five minutes to eat a sandwich.
His work, creativity and attention to detail was impeccable.
In fact, it was so good, the final product won a "best deck" contest prize that netted us a $500 free shopping spree at Bird Lumber.
It wasn't all smooth sailing.
Every day Pete would bring one of the loves of his life to the job site.
Don't get me wrong, I love dogs and everything, but every day after Pete would leave the job, I would look around the yard and find gigantic holes dug in my lawn along with enormous piles of dog s . Much like his owner, this was no normal dog, normal dogs don't drop logs the size of landscape ties on people's lawns.
The next day I would confront Pete and tell him to put some mitts and a diaper on his mutt but he would just give me that sheepish grin and fire off some smartass remark that would make us both break up in laughter.
The last time I saw Pete was at my retirement party this year.
It was great to see him and I was honoured to see his face in the crowd.
I was especially honoured to share a couple of drinks with him at the after party in our hotel room.
That honour turned to horror as I would later see him snuggled up to one of my beautiful daughters on the couch engaged in an intimate conversation. In typical O'Kane style, he just smirked and said, "What are you going to do?"
Peter O'Kane wasn't a perfect human being, but he was a great warrior, blessed with steely courage and dogged determination, a great leader who inspired everyone around him.
Pete had a great sense of humour and shared that gift with all of us.
As tough as he was, it wasn't hard to see that he had a soft side filled with love and adoration for his family, friends and those he cared about.
Above all else, Peter O'Kane was a good soldier.
We all mourn his loss.
Rest in peace, brother.
The thin blue line just got thinner.
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Husband, wife bank robbers to prison
Investigators used covert video to identify the Wall Lake couple, one of whom was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison
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Sac County Sheriff Ken McClure speaks at a Wednesday press conference in Sioux City about the arrests and sentencings of Jeffrey and Roxena Schoon, of Wall Lake, for four area bank robberies.
Investigators retrieved several pieces of evidence from the Wall Lake home of Jeff and Roxena Schoon last year that tied the pair to four area bank robberies, including medical masks, cash and gloves.
The story so far...
Dec. 29, 2011: A man robs Iowa State Bank in Odebolt of $3,687. He threatens to use a gun but does not show it. He wore a dark sweatshirt, sunglasses, surgical-type gloves and toted a blue cloth bag.
Jan. 11, 2012: A man robs Citizens First National Bank in Early of $7,275. He wore a dark hooded sweatshirt, sunglasses, gloves and had a blue cloth bag.
Jan. 28, 2012: A man robs Westside Bank in Vail of $17,280 and threatens to use a Molotov cocktail. He wore a blue hooded sweatshirt, sunglasses, white surgical-style mask and latex gloves and had a blue cloth bag.
Feb. 1, 2012: Roxena Doyle and Jeffrey Schoon marry in Las Vegas
March 23, 2012: A man robs Heritage Bank in Lytton of $4,603. He wore a dark hooded sweatshirt, tan surgical-style mask, sunglasses and latex gloves and had a blue cloth bag.
March 29, 2012: The Sac County Sheriff's office searches Jeffrey and Roxena Schoon's Wall Lake house and a vehicle to find evidence of an alleged firearms offense and find a handgun, rifle and marijuana. Deputies also find a $20 bill that was taken in one of the robberies and other items a robber used in each of the crimes: a blue cloth bag, surgical-style masks, dark sunglasses, a blue hooded sweatshirt and latex gloves.
June 5: Federal prosecutors charge Roxena Schoon with bank robbery.
June 9: Federal prosecutors charge Jeffrey and Roxena Schoon with conspiracy to commit bank robbery, four counts of bank robbery, possession of a firearm in furtherance of the conspiracy and two counts of possession of a firearm and ammunition as a prohibited person.
Dec. 13: Roxena Schoon pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit bank robbery.
Dec. 20: Jeffrey Schoon pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit bank robbery, bank robbery, possession of a firearm in furtherance of the conspiracy and possession of a firearm and ammunition as a prohibited person.
Wednesday: Jeffrey and Roxena Schoon are sentenced to 15 and five years in federal prison, respectively, and are ordered to pay more than $32,000.
April 18, 2013
Sioux City
Local, state and federal law officers staked out banks in several northwest Iowa counties last year after a man with a dark sweatshirt and a deep, raspy voice stole more than $10,000 from banks in Odebolt and Early less than two weeks apart.
Sac County Sheriff Ken McClure assumed it was the start of a spree, and that the robber wouldn't stop until he was arrested. The robber had threatened to use a gun at the first bank if clerks didn't comply.
"You felt a strong urgency to get these people captured," McClure said.
None of the officers was watching banks in Vail and Lytton when the robber struck again in January and March 2012, McClure said. The robber slipped away in the trunk of a car. His wife drove.
But in Lytton, across the street from the Heritage Bank where the pair stole about $4,600, was a surveillance camera that officers had placed in a farm supply store to watch the bank. It captured snippets of the getaway car that investigators later pieced together with the help of Buena Vista University in Storm Lake. They later scoured vehicle registration records for a gold Dodge Stratus that pointed to Jeffrey and Roxena Schoon.
Investigators used other surveillance video from the Walmart in Carroll - which showed Jeffrey Schoon, a felon, buying gun ammunition - to get a search warrant for their Wall Lake house. Sheriff's deputies found at least one $20 bill that was taken from one of the banks and other items from the robberies: a blue cloth bag, medical masks, dark sunglasses, a blue hooded sweatshirt and latex gloves.
The Schoons were charged with several federal crimes in June 2012, pleaded guilty to some in December, and on Wednesday a judge sentenced Jeffrey Schoon, 48, to 15 years in federal prison and Roxena Schoon, 40, to five years.
There is no parole from federal prison.
The Schoons robbed the banks in Crawford and Sac counties of about $33,000 over the course of three months starting in December 2011, which they admitted as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors.
The Schoons planned the robberies for weeks, Jeffrey Schoon's teenage daughter Brittany told investigators. They sought banks with an alley behind but with no windows that faced the alley. Jeffrey Schoon went into the banks, demanded money and ran to their car, where he climbed into the trunk to hide as Roxena drove away.
Brittany Schoon said her father admitted to threatening people with a bomb in one of the robberies. Court records accused Jeffrey Schoon of threatening to ignite a tall glass jar filled with gasoline - what is known as a Molotov cocktail.
The Schoons drove to Las Vegas after the Vail robbery and married so that they wouldn't be required by law to testify against each other if caught for the crimes.
Roxena Schoon's previous surname was Doyle. McClure said Wednesday after the Schoons were sentenced that he and other investigators connected the Ford Taurus used in the first robbery to Roxena Doyle but were unaware she had married and changed her name.
Jeffrey Schoon pleaded for leniency in the weeks leading up to his sentencing for the sake of his two high-school-aged children:
"I have been a single father raising two children on my own since they were 3 and 2," Schoon wrote to a judge.
"I am very pained to know that my punishment will also be theirs. Please give Brittany, Bret and I some hope that we may someday hang out together again."
Schoon wrote that he was fired from a job two years ago and "fell into the grip of alcoholism and depression." He said his son suffers from cystic fibrosis, and that the boy might not live long enough to see Schoon released from prison.
Brittany Schoon wrote:
"We were in a very rough time in life ... he proved to his children how much he really does care and love us. In my mind that makes him the best father in the world.
"Please show mercy on him."
McClure said the Schoons' arrests were the result of the cooperation of multiple law-enforcement agencies and local residents. There was the farm supply shop that allowed the surveillance camera, the help from Buena Vista University to get a better picture of the getaway car, and the guidance from an Odebolt car dealership on the year, make, and model of the car.
"That's one of the benefits of living in a small community," McClure said. "Everybody wants to help."
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Carl Froch has branded George Groves "paranoid" for demanding neutral officials for their super-middleweight world title rematch at Wembley in May.
Groves complained of bias to the British Boxing Board of Control after referee Howard Foster stopped November's first title bout in the ninth round, handing controversial victory to defending champion Froch.
Londoner Groves will refuse to fight Froch at Wembley on May 31 unless the BBBofC grant his demand for non-British officials.
Nonplussed Froch does not believe Groves' call will jeopardise the keenly anticipated fight, that could set a new post-war British attendance record, but the Nottingham man admitted he was less than satisfied with his rival's demands.
"I personally can't believe it, and I'm not happy about it," said 36-year-old Froch, who found himself in a tussle with Groves during the Wembley pitch-side photocall.
Froch refused to face off with Groves, eventually shoving his opponent away while the cameras snapped away.
"We're all in this sport together, and the BBBofC do a fantastic job," said Froch.
"To say that we don't want them officiating potentially the biggest fight in British boxing history, it almost makes a mockery of the BBBofC.
"It's a real shame, we've got two British fighters, we're going to leave it all in the ring, you've got to give George Groves a lot of credit for how he performed in his first fight, he did a good job.
"We would like to think that our referees, our officials, our judges could play a part in the whole event.
"To say that they're not invited to the party, when it's happening on our soil, I'm sure that they could turn around and refuse to sanction the fight.
"This will unfold, but it's George again playing clever clogs.
"Possibly he's paranoid about upsetting a lot of officials, from the last one, and he might feel it's going to have some backlash.
"I don't think something like that would mean that this fight doesn't happen, I really don't think that."
Groves hopes for compromise as he awaits a response from the BBBofC, but still claims the fight is conditional on the appointment of neutral officials.
"It's conditional that there are no UK officials: otherwise I don't ring walk," said Groves.
"I have respect for the British Boxing Board of Control, but they failed me in the first fight, this is a huge fight that has to take place.
"And if they insist upon placing one of their officials, who will be susceptible to the build-up, because how can you not, then I won't fight.
"Eddie (Hearn) and my solicitors are working on what happens next now.
"We'll find a compromise, I'm not here to alienate the British Boxing Board of Control, but we feel we have more than a valid point, and the fight is conditional upon it."


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Trains on the Weymouth-Waterloo line are being delayed by up to 30 minutes due to a signalling problem around Beaulieu Road station between Brockenhurst and Southampton.
A second signalling problem affecting Southampton Central station blocked all lines in the area. This problem has now been rectified but South West Trains said it is delaying services by up to an hour.
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Pre-season hockey is like an exhibition of abstract art — it's not always pretty and a lot of it is confusing, but the colouring isn't supposed to be inside the lines anyway and the best strategy for the average viewer is to just kind of let it wash all over you, warts and all.
So with that as your backdrop, let's consider Sunday night's pre-season contest at the MTS Centre between the Winnipeg Jets and Ottawa Senators, which went into the books as a 3-1 Senators victory:
Over before it began
The Sens iced something more closely approximating a regular-season team than the Jets did and Jets head coach Claude Noel was warning as early as the morning skate on Sunday that the team of mostly green prospects he was sending out last night was going to be in tough against what he called a "formidable" Sens roster.
Noel was right. Ottawa's top line of Jason Spezza, Milan Michalek and Bobby Ryan — with assists to defensive stalwart Erik Karlsson — accounted for two of Ottawa's three goals on this night and Ottawa netminder Robin Lehner, who played 12 games for the Sens last season, was solid in turning away 27 shots.
The Jets countered with their own top line of Bryan Little, Andrew Ladd and Blake Wheeler for the second and third periods after newcomer Michael Frolik occupied Ladd's place on the top line for most of the first period. The Little-Wheeler-Ladd trio showed flashes of mid-season form on a couple of rushes and accounted for 11 of the team's 28 shots, but the fine finishing around the net that is NHL goal scoring was missing in what was the pre-season debut for the threesome.
"We're still working out the kinks," said Little. "We haven't played a game in five months or so and we're trying to shake the rust off...
"It was the kind of game I expected — a little bit sloppy and quite a few mistakes. But I was hoping at least for a little bit better than that... We were just a little bit flat. They were better than us in pretty much every aspect."
Jets goaltender Michael Hutchinson — a 2008 thirrd rounder of the Boston Bruins who is competing this month for a job in St. John's — did not look out of place, turning away 29 of 32 shots and getting named the game's second star.
The kids are all right
On a night that was mostly about giving the Jets braintrust a look at how some of their younger prospects played under duress, a few players stood out.
Topping that list was Jets right-winger Matt Halischuk, who blocked a couple of shots and accounted for his team's only offence on this night, scooping up a loose puck at centre ice and scoring unassisted on a breakaway at 12:18 of the second period to get the Jets within one goal at 2-1.
"It was a tough flow tonight," said Halischuk. "But I thought we did some good things and we'll just try to carry that on."
Me hitting you and you hitting the floor
Jets tough guy Anthony Peluso, who missed over half of last season after he broke his hand in a fight, made very short work last night of Sens defenceman Michael Sdao.
After the customary dance invitation was issued and accepted at 12:53 of the second period, the two players did the usual two-step for a bit before Sdao made the mistake of getting within punching distance of Peluso. Peluso's first haymaker just missed the mark, but it knocked Sdao off balance and Peluso made no mistake with the second punch, finding nothing but meat and putting Sdao to the ice.
The crowd loved it — and then loved it even more when Peluso mugged for the fans, raising his arms in triumph.
"It'd been since March 2 that I played. I was getting pretty antsy — I wanted to make something happen," Peluso said after the game. "That's my role and I'm happy with it. I love it. Whatever I can do to help."
Up next
The Jets — who dropped to 0-1-1 in the pre-season with last night's loss — play again Tuesday night at the MTS Centre against the Edmonton Oilers. Not many of the players that played for Winnipeg in their two exhibition games over the weekend will be in Tuesday's lineup, but veterans such as Dustin Byfuglien, Ondrej Pavelec and Olli Jokinen — who have all yet to play this pre-season — are expected to finally get their turn at some ice time.


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SUGAR LAND, Texas - The City of Sugar Land played hard to get Tuesday after receiving a rare offer worth more than $4.5 million.
A representative from a website containing the word "sugar" met with Mayor James Thompson about changing the name of the city, which was recently voted one of the safest places to live. The website making the sales pitch is sugardaddie.com, an online dating service.
"It's a niche dating site that typically involves older gentleman and young attractive women," said Darren Shuster, a representative for the website.
The website was trying to win over the hearts of Sugar Land's population of 80,000 people through Mayor Thompson. Shuster said his goal was to convince the city to name itself after the dating site, which would mean Sugar Land as we know it would become the City of Sugardaddie.com.
"We started at $500,000. Did a couple of calculations on the back of a napkin and decided about $4.5 million would probably hit the spot," said Shuster.
Just feet from City Hall, shoppers at Anything Bling told Local 2's Courtney Zavala they couldn't believe it.
"I think it's absolutely ridiculous. I've lived here a long time raising my children. It's Sugar Land, and it will never be anything else," said Judy Loveless.
The two men met in a closed-door meeting. Afterwards, there was a handshake, but no deal.
Thompson said the city is not for sale, but had a pitch of his own.
"Why don't you relocate here and for every dollar you save in taxes, donate 50 percent back to charity. And we'd welcome them in Sugar Land," said Thompson.
The representative from the website said you haven't heard the last from them. According to Shuster, Sugardaddie.com is shopping to find another city to potentially rename.
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Corn futures dipped in response to Friday's USDA data. After giving a taste of their long-term data Thursday, the USDA released the full report early this morning. Forecast 2014 corn acreage at 79.5 million acres didn't change, but the other numbers seemed somewhat bearish. 2014/15 carryout was stated at 2.111 billion bushels. That news was followed by the weekly Export Sales data, which disappointed traders. March corn slid 1.75 cents to $4.54/bushel late Friday morning, while May lost 2.0 to $4.6025.
Talk of South American dryness may be boosting soybeans. The 2014 data on the USDA long-term outlook also seemed to weigh on soybeans in early Friday trading. The USDA reiterated its acreage forecast at 79.5 million acres, with the 2014 crop at 3.55 billion bushels and 14/15 carryout at 285 million. The weekly Export Sales report seemed mixed, with weak bean sales being offset by a big meal number. Ultimately, fresh talk of emerging South America seemed to push beans higher by late morning. March soybeans bounced 5.5 cents to $13.6375/bushel around midday Friday, while March soyoil rallied 0.14 cents to 40.71 cents/pound, and March soymeal rose $2.9 to $453.8/ton.
USDA's export data probably depressed the wheat markets. The USDA again stated its 2014 wheat acreage forecast at 55.5 million acres at today's outlook forum, with the forthcoming crop stated at 2.160 billion bushels and 14/15 carryout at 587 million bu. Futures remained weak versus Thursday's close, then turned even lower after the weekly Export Sales report was released. Having the numbers come in at the lower end of forecasts likely disappointed traders. March CBOT wheat futures skidded 2.0 cents to $6.1425/bushel just before lunchtime Friday, while March KCBT wheat futures sank 3.75 cent to $6.88, and March MWE futures tumbled 6.5 to $6.7525.
Cattle futures may be reacting to country market developments. This week's wholesale strength and firm opening bids by beef packers boosted CME cattle prices earlier this week. However, prices turned decidedly lower Friday morning. We suspect producers lowered their asking prices slightly, thereby causing market bulls to back away from previously established positions. April cattle futures fell 0.67 cents to 141.20 cents/pound in late Friday morning action, while August dropped 0.52 to 131.17. Meanwhile, March feeder cattle slumped 0.42 cents to 170.70 cents/pound, and May dove 0.60 to 172.00.
Big cash and wholesale gains are boosting nearby hog futures. Bullish hog traders have been anticipating strong increases in hog and pork prices for weeks and are finally getting those late this week. Cash values, as well as pork cutout, jumped Thursday, which is rather obviously causing traders to look for more of the same. April hogs leapt 0.97 cents to 98.80 cents/pound late Friday morning, while June added 0.17 at 107.95.


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SAN ANTONIO – The NBA Development League today announced that San Antonio Spurs guard Cory Joseph has been selected to play in the seventh annual NBA D-League All-Star Game on Saturday, Feb. 16, at Sprint Arena at NBA All-Star Jam Session at Houston's George R. Brown Convention Center. The game will air live on NBA TV at 2 p.m. CT.
Joseph has split the 2012-13 season between San Antonio and Austin having been assigned to the Toros on five different occasions. He is the 15th Toros player to be selected to the D-League All-Star Game.
In 18 games with the Toros this season, Joseph is averaging a team-high 19.9 points, 5.1 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 1.39 steals, while shooting .455 (122-268) from the field, .456 (26-57) from three-point range and .789 (86-109) from the free throw line for the reigning NBA D-League champions. The former University of Texas product ranks second in the D-League in scoring and 11th in assists.
Joseph has posted two double-doubles and has scored in double figures in 17 games, including 20-or-more in 10 games and a season-high 30 points twice.
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