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draco664
03-13-2011, 11:14 PM
Apparently politicians who decide that people should have to be body scanned feel that it's an invasion of privacy to be body scanned... (http://www.theparliament.com/latest-news/article/newsarticle/mep-calls-for-investigation-into-rotting-security-scanners/)

That is, it's an invasion of *their* privacy.
Rapscallion
03-14-2011, 01:03 AM
Are they the actual ones who decided that people have to be body scanned, or was it the security folk at the EU parliament? The article doesn't state either way.

Rapscallion
Greenday
03-14-2011, 03:58 AM
Maybe the members who claimed it was a breach of their privacy had voted against it.
Rapscallion
03-14-2011, 07:20 AM
Was it even voted on by them? Doesn't say either way, or it didn't on the scan-through I made.

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Greenday
03-14-2011, 09:03 AM
Was it even voted on by them? Doesn't say either way, or it didn't on the scan-through I made.

Rapscallion

The article didn't mention it.
Hyena Dandy
03-16-2011, 08:43 PM
Did THEY decide it, personally, or at least vote for it? Because otherwise it doesn't seem that hypocritical if they weren't a part of the vote or anything.
Plaidman
03-16-2011, 08:57 PM
Maybe you posted the wrong article, because it's stating that

A: The MEP lobbied for years AGAINST body scanners, and
B: Even if they were for it, the current body scanners they have are nearly a decade old and never been used, and was a huge waste of money.


Nothing about people that voted to have them are now suddenly against them when used on them. At all.
Hyena Dandy
03-17-2011, 02:38 AM
I've just reread the article.

Did you post the wrong link or something? I mean, to me it looks like politicians who voted AGAINST it say its an invasion of privacy, which is pretty consistent.

Maybe you had multiple tabs open on the subject or something. Happens to me all the time. Once I posted one of my porn stories to a debate site. >_>
Plaidman
03-17-2011, 02:52 AM
Once I posted one of my porn stories to a debate site. >_>

See, you can just pull the "I'm just fucking with ya" excuse when you do a porn story.
Hyena Dandy
03-17-2011, 03:27 AM
See, you can just pull the "I'm just fucking with ya" excuse when you do a porn story.

But I thought the article I was trying to link was really interesting!

Also harder to do when the link is to something you wrote.
draco664
03-17-2011, 09:38 AM
Maybe you posted the wrong article, because it's stating that

A: The MEP lobbied for years AGAINST body scanners, and
B: Even if they were for it, the current body scanners they have are nearly a decade old and never been used, and was a huge waste of money.


Nothing about people that voted to have them are now suddenly against them when used on them. At all.

Yeah, sorry it was a bit unclear because there's backstory missing.

Some MEPs have been lobbying hard for the scanners to be used at airports and other places (like train stations), but, as in the story I posted, are dead set against having to use them themselves.

That was the point I was making.
Plaidman
03-17-2011, 01:33 PM
Indeed there is back story missing, because it's nowhere in the article you posted. In fact, in the article you posted, they've been dead set against it from the start.
Hyena Dandy
03-18-2011, 05:12 AM
Some MEPs have been lobbying hard for the scanners to be used at airports and other places (like train stations), but, as in the story I posted, are dead set against having to use them themselves.


Some have, but not the ones in that article...

I think you've got the wrong article, you should check your link again.