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They want us to submit to their obtrusive security measures so we become complacent with over the top security and loss of privacy.

I am old enough to remember when flying was fun, an adventure that I eagerly looked forward to. There were no security checks, no pat downs, no shoe searches, no databases, nothing but check-in and go to find your seat. Many of the flights weren’t even full! And the service was grand. Now I absolutely dread it. I avoid it whenever possible. On flights of less than 500 miles I always drive. It takes about the same amount of time when you factor in getting to the airport, arriving at least an hour early, the inevitable delays, waiting to land, then the long lines on the other end. I will only fly if I have to fly transcontinental or overseas. And now I have to put up with a virtual strip search? No way.

It seems like I get to choose between have naked images of myself displayed to strangers (with untested radiation to boot), or being sexually molested.

Even worse is that I have to choose which if these I want for my children. How is this even remotely acceptable?

I will be driving 4,000 miles round trip from Dallas to Reno, NV to avoid these screening techniques. I’m also a million mile flyer on American Airlines, and have written their corporate leadership to inform them that these techniques have resulted in my moving from a 90% travel job to a 0% travel job.

Actually, this additional assault on the 4th ammendment will have zero impact on me. I said “ENOUGH!” 5yrs ago and will not fly again. I think you’ll find more people taking a seige mentallity as we sink deeper into the police state. As a Vietnam veteran and patriot, I see this for what it is.

considering the fact that these new and enhanced proceedures were introduced AFTER foiled attachs, it makes them absolutely redundant.Nothing more than harrasment and terrorizing our own citizens….yet the ones in question do not get searched because of political correctness…Everybody needs to start speaking up and refusing these proceedures, they are uncalled for and they will not help them detect anything they couldn’t have found with the old method…I intend to yell “opt-out” loud enough myself…and I will, with all due respect of course, politely try to shame them…I have small breasts and I will loudly ask if they really look like they had any implants….maybe I get a chuckle out of one or two…but if they willmake me miss my flight because of it, I will contact my lawyer…enough is enough..

I have up on commercial flying some years ago. When the TSA advised me to arrive 2 hours prior to departure, I couldn’t take my can of coke with me, had to take off my shoes, I started adding the costs.
Drive to airport: 45 min.
Arrive 2 hours early.
Fly 1 hour to destination.
Find my baggage (usually) 45 min.
Rent car and drive 45 min. to meeting. Total: 6 hours.

Now, call up the local airport charter company and tell them my schedule. I and my associates arrive at the airport 5 minutes early, carry our baggage to airplane, climb in, and we fly 1 hour 15 minutes to destination, drive 5 minutes to meeting from the much closer downtown airport. When we are ready to go home (early or late, whatever it is), we return to the airport and fly home. Figure half the time in transit, arrive home refreshed, and the cost is not much more than a pair of business class tickets, airport parking and whatnot.

“It is a necessary procedure to ensure terror plots are thwarted”
What a pack of propaganda…
TSA has never caught a terrorist.

Most bulk packaging sent in the bottom of planes is not searched, so what is the point of turning passengers into imaginary terrorists?
Nope, no flying for me unless someone in the family dies.
If I want foreplay, I have my hunny!

Where’s the fourth option of “No – But it is NOT a necessary procedure to ensure terror plots are thwarted?”

I hope that every single person flying this holiday season clearly ‘opts out’ of the naked scanners, requests a private pat-down with a witness who is videotaping the pat down, and clearly states to the TSA Agent that they are violating your constitutional right (per 4th Amendment of freedom from search with out PROBABLE CAUSE that you are guilty of A CRIME THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN COMMIITTED. These ARE Government employee’s (ie ‘the government’ is searching you), the airports are tax-paid-for public places, and the airline companies (not really at fault here, their employee’s are protesting too) are public companies, and yes, you DO have a ‘right’ to fly, as you are a ‘free person’ in America. I’m waiting to read results of the Fatwa against the screenings, days ahead of the Haj. If muslims can opt out, the rest of us should DAMN WELL be able to without undergoing a sexual assault. For those who may not have witnessed this, or think it’s not a big deal, just check out the TSA’s own video’s by searching on youtube “TSA scanner” there are shocking videos’ including a heartbreaking one of a 3 year old little girl just screaming while being molested by a TSA agent…..OPT OUT! Get a Witness and VIDEOTAPE the pat down.

Ever since I was a kid I loved flying. Anytime my family and I took a trip I think I looked forward to the journey way more than the destination. Even now I love the act of flying itself, regardless of the cramped seats, the loss of amenities and the delays.

That being said, these latest TSA policies have finally pushed me to the breaking point. This type of security theater has been shown over and over again to have no real bearing on security whatsoever; despite that I am to the point where I simply don’t want to sacrifice my dignity to save a few hours/dollars to get where I need to go. To my great sadness I will not fly again until these ridiculous policies are done away with.

I am currently faced with many overseas trips next year for work. I am terrified of going! If I get detained and can’t board this will affect my *work*. This is unacceptable.

Scientific health reasons why people should Opt-Out of going through unproven full body scanners http://bit.ly/ci3M7m

Doctors, incl Nobel Laureate, letter request TSA cease using & independent eval of full body scanners http://n.pr/bKGCKx

I have already changed my plans for travel this year, and also rearranged my holiday schedules as a result of the TSA procedures. I will not be subjected to radiation at these levels, and my wife, whose employment involves radiology, refuses to be irradiated at these levels. Since our only other alternative to be permitted to fly would be to allow ourselves to be subjected to what amounts to an assault, we choose not to fly.

In a way this is sad, the airlines will be the ones who pay for this policy by lost flyers, and lost profits.

I have plans to go to Macau soon and am already looking into plans to travel by boat. I don’t care if it takes a week to get there. my wife and I won’t subject ourselves to this. might as well take a cruise and enjoy every bit of it.

The next time I fly – I will opt out again. This time I will ask the name of the TSA agent who will try to assault me and inform him that I will sue him personally if he proceeds.

Already affected my decision. I have now stopped flying, period. Sad, as I was getting my free flight on the next one, but I will not subject myself, much, much less my wife, to such crass behavior touted as ‘safety.’ Bye.

This is a bogus poll.

No I am not going to change my place. But, No, this is not because I believe the procedures are needed for national security.

Is this a fox owned organization?

I am a victim of sexual assault. The court date for the trail has yet to be set yet. I am still afraid to leave the house on most days. My husband wanted to take the family on a ski vacation prior to the trial so we could relax and have some sense of normalcy before the trial commences but don’t believe I would be able to get through the security checkpoint for I will not submit to either a scan or a search. No one can touch me. I attended my grandmother’s funeral this weekend and couldn’t even be hugged by my closest relatives without horrible flashbacks. The idea of submitting to this physical or virtual search is like being assaulted all over again. It is sad that my family has to miss out on a vacation because of this policy.

Notice the lack of outrage from the media and the libs now that zero is President?

I am a citizen, not a subject, I do not allow myself to be groped by people who work for me, nor do I give up my creator granted rights to be free from unreasonable searches.

They need to come up with another way, molesting children is not a long term winning strategy.

I will simply not fly, I do often, but I Will choose to change my habits.

I refuse to give up even a modicum of my freedom for perceived (not even actual) security.

We will not be flying till these scanners and pat downs are removed. This month we will drive 8 hours to avoid airlines, and in 6 months (if the scanners/frisking do not disappear) we will drive over half way across the country (over 1500 miles) there and back to avoid the scanners. If the airlines want my business they need to tell the TSA to back off and get their paws off my kids.

Obama has proven to be so incompetent we can’t trust his judgment. So, if Napolitano says all this is safe, why should we believe her. She also said the borders are safe. These people are simply not credible. Why should I allow a body search based on random selection? I don’t give up my rights to unreasonable searches by flying. There should be levels of screening….if I flunk level one, go to level two, etc. Otherwise, keep your mitts off me and don’t spray me with radiation. Middle eastern men, traveling alone or in groups have been responsible for blowing up innocent people. Grandmas and teenage girls have not been doing that, so leave them alone. This is as dumb as not allowing kids to wear American flag t-shirts because Mexican flag wearers will be insulted. Stupid.

It is really simple. This is a full declaration of war by our federal government against our Constitution and Bill of Rights – pure and simple, nothing less.

These pat downs are a violation of our 4th Amendment rights, and I do not give a d a ma n what they say, it is illegal.

Most of our present federal government leaders pose and clear and present danger to our Republic and are, by definition, treasonous and Domestic Enemies of the State.

They make a declaration of war against us and our Constitution, then I suggest a few million of us get together and give them what they’re asking for.

How TSA is not protecting you:

When you go through TSA security do they check the validity of the boarding pass? NO! Such as scan the boarding pass it to see if it is real? NO! Take this scenario: Person 1 buys a ticket online and prints out a boarding pass at home. Person 1 is run up against a no fly list. Then an accomplice, Person 2, with home computer, some software and a printer makes up a fake boarding pass with their name on it. Person 1 checks in at the airport or online and gives Person 2 their boarding pass. Person 2 heads to TSA security, presents the fake boarding pass with valid ID. Boarding pass name is check to ID which is checked to the person presenting the ID. The fake boarding pass is never checked to see if it is valid and the name of Person 2 is never checked against the no fly list. Person 2 proceeds through security, tosses the fake boarding pass and boards the plane using Person 1 boarding pass.

Everyone feel safe now?

My wife will not travel when she has to have this kind of pat down. She went through a terrible incident about five years ago when pregnant. Woman insisted on feeling her breasts to stomach. It was way over the top. She was holding my then less than two year old son. I was told to stay back. She could not stand being touched. What they did not know is she was once sexually assaulted, and this just brought it back. Nobody wanted to hear any of this. She had a physical reflex action to block this search. You would if you had been through what she went through. So the tsa needs to back the F off. They are getting way over the top. I travel two or three times monthly. I could care less about pat downs or the machines personally. My wife cannot stand the idea of traveling NOW.

I’ve sworn off flying long before this latest humiliating attack on the customers’ privacy. I used to fly several times a year, but the security has just ruined it. I’ll drive 1,500 miles now before I’ll get on a plane, and would only fly in case of a last-minute emergency. I tired of being treated like a criminal a long time ago.

I will find other means to reach my destinations from now on or as long as this intrusion into We The People’s freedoms are being trampled on. This is past stupidity. The people need take a stand and say enough is enough, and good bye to obama and his henchmen. What a joke he and his administration is. I too will vote repubilican from now on or anothe party with common sense, who is proud of America, loves the country and what it stands for.

In the five and a half hours it takes me to drive from my house to the airport, park my car and go through security, I can drive comfortably in my car between 300 and 350 miles. I can stop and stretch, bring snacks or stop at a restaurant. In order to fly from my house in northern NM to Corpus Christi, TX, I have the 5.5 pre-flight and then have to fly W to Phoenix before flying east to Dallas and then S to CC. That’s two plane changes and the possibility of being stuffed in a seat next to the fat lady in the circus or someone sneezing and coughing or perhaps a mother with a small child on their lap, whining and crying.

Thanks, I’ll take two leisurely days enjoying the scenery in my own car.

I like to travel to Mexico and when I do that, I take the bus. It is far more comfortable than the airplane.

Hey TSA,

How about if your children are subjected to this? If, you think it’s OK? Social Services needs to know about you!

CitizenJohnDoe

The terrorists have won.

We take our grandkids on vacation twice a year. We will continue to do so, but not by commercial air. It is one thing for the government to want to play around with my crotch. But it will be cold day in hell before I let one of them molest my grandkids. They can spin it any way they want, but is it sexual molestation of a minor.

Yes, alternative plans will be made before I or my family subit to our governments version of 1930′s Germany. Bush started it and Obama and his band of merry men/women are making it even more dispicable.

I need to make a business trip across country in a few weeks, and I’ve decided to drive instead of fly for only this reason. I will not allow the government irradiate me, no matter how small. It’s not a health thing, it’s principle. And there is no way they are going to give me a pat down. NO WAY.

Liberty isn’t taken away all at once. It is gnawed and removed piece by tiny piece until we’re stripped of it.

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” -Ben Franklin 1775

Janet is a dunce. She is a confirmed idiot who thinks she can make us safe with radiation and pat downs. She is a sex pervert as is the TSA staff who agree to implement such procedures.
Time to abolish the Department of Homeland Security when she saids the Borders are safe and the air is free of terrorist. She ought to know: She is one.

you poor sheeple, you will do anything the government says to do. Remember it was the German citizens who were the hands of Hitler, they were told they need to do all the horrible things they did for their own security. What are you willing to do to get a pat on your empty little head from the government? Just about anything?

Look, TSA can’t even perform the x-ray inspection of our carry-ons adequately. On October 12 I took an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Houston. During the flight a small, elderly, frail Asian man made his way down the aisle to the galley area. He put down his canvas briefcase/tote in the empty seat next to us and fumbled with the plastic wrap on a noodle bowl. Failing to tear it off, he took a 2-inch, wide-bladed, pocket knife out and proceeded to cut off the plastic. I stared at the knife in shock and nudged my husband. “He has a knife! How did he get a knife through security???”

We don’t have the AIT scanners yet in Seattle, but unfortunately they do have them in Lihue, Hawaii, where I had planned to spend a week in our timeshare this coming February. I REFUSE to subject myself to either the irradiation/virtual strip-search or the sexual-assault “pat down”. I have probably flown for the last time, unless I can put trips together that go through the small out-of-the-way airports.

You bet I’ll make alternative plans. I will not have my spouse and children sexually assaulted by the societal losers who are now TSA government employees when they let Muslims go through the line with no screening, but stop and frisk an 80 year-old grandmother.

If we really want to stop terrorism on aircraft, we need to borrow a page from the Israelis and get serious about interviews and profiles. Sadly, the average TSA employee cannot speak good English, knows nothing about profiles, and may not even be an American citizens.

I knew Jane Napolitano would be a horrible Homeland Security Secretary, and she has lived up to expectations.

If we’re not going to get serious about airport and airline security, and trade TSA fools for good security people, then the airline industry in the United States will be permanently crippled, along with the business sector.

As a company owner from Canada I deal with US companies and sometimes have to travel down there. Not any more. I refuse to have my wife or me be sexually assaulted just for the privilege of ordering goods made in the US. Last week I cancelled a $5.3 million contract because of this stupidity and I let the companies I deal with know why. I know that my business purchases may not seem like much for some of the larger companies there, but I know of at least 4 others company owners who have or are in the process of doing the same. The US’s foolishness is Korea’s gain in this case.

This enhanced pat down/full body scanners is nuts! If is all so safe and not sexual assault then why don’t US federal officials go through the indignity of TSA searches? Why don’t we see Sec. Napolitano sujected to these searches? (OK so instinctivelythe TSA would not have the power on or squeeze Sec. N’s ‘junk’… it would be sham) …why aren’t Washington’s elected officials and other bureaucrats sujected to this? Oh is it because they never actually fly with normal people .. the little people that pay their salaries? They are too important to fly commercial aviation? Let’s watch Mrs. Obama or Nancy Pelosi be groped by a TSA official and see if there is a policy change….How is it that El Al doesn’t have to use these stupid techniques? Maybe TSA should talk to them …no better yet, hire El Al to run the US security system!!!

I am excited and eager to join the class action lawsuit against DHS, TSA, Sec. Napolitano, Sec. Chernoff, etc … and then wwatch the dramatic increase in cancer resulting from this fraud just about the time Obama Care kicks in (there go the predicted medical savings) as these useless Bush/Obama Wars celebrate their Golden Anniversary as we are still engaged in conflict against the boogie man! Wake up people … this is a hoax….

I will not be subject to unnecessary x-rays and will not stand for anyone touching me that is not my husband. I think everyone male and female should dress in female Muslim garb and just express your religious rights to only be fondled on your head and neck and there you have it, personal freedom. Just don’t take off your outfit until you get off the plane. Better yet someone should open up a spot next to the car rental spot in the airport where you can rent Muslim wear and turn it back in at the other end of your flight.

After going through all the security, I can grab a bagel to eat on the plane….along with the THICKEST, SHARPEST PLASTIC KNIFE I’ve ever seen to spread my cream cheese. I could sooooo easily slash a throat with it; and I calmly, in plain view, carry it onto the plane with a big smile on my face.

TSA is a joke, airplane security is a joke. And if Muslim women are going to get a pass from this pat down, while we Americans are treated like the terrorists TSA should be PROFILING, well, will someone please bomb someone and get this war started!!!!!!!

The 4th Amendment states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

THE TSA IS UNREASOONABLE IN THEIR SEARCHES. IF THEY WON’T PROFILE – WON’T USE THERMAL SCANNERS THEN I WON’T FLY.

Only after liquid explosives were attempted to be used did TSA ban liquids. A year after the underwear bomber, they decide on patdowns. It’s all reactive non security.

Explosives can be cast into a lot of items that pass through security. Detonation electronics can be disguised in electronics. Explosives can be hidden inside body cavities. Finally, explosives could be injected into plastic containers inside the abdomen, etc.

Extrapolate to the future using this reactive approach. No carry on. Full body cavity searches. Pre flight CT scans…

For many years I flew commercial 1-3 times a week, sometimes more. In 2003 I changed jobs and stopped flying because 1. airline customer service was declining and 2. the TSA security process had gotten way out of control. I have not considered traveling by air for either business or pleasure since that time. I drive everywhere now. I live in the SE US. If I can’t get get to a destination by car, train, or boat I don’t go. The TSA has grown to be an insatiable administrative monster. I do believe in the shot time it has been alive it has become more of a burden to the taxpaying public than the IRS.

TSA cost American $450 this Thanksgiving because my Mom’s driving 7 hours instead. And that was before the guy in San Diego.

Seems like our government is more afraid of its own citizens then any would be terrorists. Personally, I am more afraid of our government than terrorists.

As a medical professional, my biggest concern is adults and children who may have a history of sexual abuse/molestation, this touching may be perceived as an assault and compound individual issues. This is an invitation to every sicko to apply for the fun job of molesting women, men and children, or getting their kicks watching virtual strip searches. The radiation is also a concern. I have been radiated many times during my life and feel additional radiation is unwarranted. The lawsuits should start ASAP. Travelers and companions should keep their cell cameras ready to record any unnecessary touching or inappropriate behavior.
Any TSA personnel who touches me where the sun doesn’t shine will be subject to a knee to the groin or will draw back a stump!

The time to push back and stop this is NOW!Or soon you wont be able to take a train, bus or drive long distance without being subjected to the same kinds of checks. Their “logic” will be the same: it’s for your safety. Where’s the ACLU in all this?

The main thing keeping me from flying is the cost. Having traveled around the world I have endure much worse.

The terrorists hated America’s freedoms, so our idiotic American leaders are taking all of our freedoms away, one by one, so as not to offend the terrorists!

Article 4 of the United States Constitution protects the citizens of this country from unlawful search and seizure. Unless there is reason to suspect you have committed a crime, you may not be searched. Stand on your rights while you still have some.

I am going to drive 2,000 miles round-trip from El Paso, Tx to Weldon, California because I REFUSE to be “searched” when attempting to board an aircraft. It makes no sense to me to pay to have to expose myself to either radiation or the touch of some rubber-gloved stranger! Let me know just how many potential bombers you stop with this method in the next couple of years. Oh, by the way, what about the women in burkas? Do you pat them down or make them stand in front of a body exposing screen? The inmates are now running the asylum!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What if someone invents an explosive powder that can be sprinkled on your hair and will explode when triggered by a bobby pin or some such nonsense? Will we all have to shave our heads? I feel like the world has gone mad while I was sleeping. This has to be a dream.

my family is driving this holiday instead of flying, and we have looked into taking the train. we can have a private room for the price of 1 airline ticket. we could fly to and from regional airports but that is only a temporary solution. this is much bigger than just flying, this is big brother out of control.this is the line in the sand,”you shall not pass”

“Are you kidding? I have reordered my life to avoid flying altogether. Obama and company have transformed Amerika into a communist, totalitarian state which makes the former Soviet Union look like a Utopian wet dream. Obama stands shoulder to shoulder with foreign leaders to condemn and then sue US border states which choose to defend their borders rather than be overrun by armed political insurgents while you and I are subjected to the most extraordinary physical searches on the planet. What’s wrong with this picture?”

Are people like you still ranting like this? This has been in motion since the great GWB was in office and even before. Wake up and look around. It’s not ideology…it’s corruption of power. It’s the dark side of humanity. Of what fell Rome, etc.

I try never to fly at all anymore. Ever since 9/11 it’s become such a hassle, the lines too long, have to show up too early, the planes to crowded. I traveled for my job for years, and flying was fun in those days. NOT ANYMORE. So if I can’t drive to where I am going, I triple think going at all.

could not imagine getting stuck in a plane waiting for hours to take off… now getting felt up or having one of the kids subject to a groin check… no way. When did we hand over the right not to have our genitals fondled just go visit grandma?

Truth is I stopped flying (when not absolutely needed) after the increased security of 9/11. The fact is we are all being treated like crap because of political correctness. We all know who is likely to bomb, and what area of the world these bombers are likely to come from.

When Americans start bombing planes in significant numbers, I will succumb to the psychotic increase in security. Until then, the scenery is far more beautiful from a car window.

It will cost more – but I will book open space on private jets before they will subject me to the radiation or the hand!

I live in Washington state, and my family lives in Texas. My husband and I have already bought (non-refundable) tickets to visit in January, or we would never fly again–at least until these gestapo tactics stop. After that, we will drive or take the train/bus. It’s horribly inconvenient, but it’s better than being photographed naked and/or sexually assaulted by government thugs. Oh, and when we fly in January? If we’re herded to the scanners, we will opt out. It is inconceivable that we should have to be radiated, photographed naked and/or sexually assaulted in order to visit my elderly parents. We are not terrorists.

I had an experience in Atlanta where TSA showed their incompetence! After embarrassing me, accusing me of having explosive residue on my bag, removing very small manicure scissors from my carry-on and then announcing that was the problem, I was cleared to continue! Since I was about to miss my flight, I did not question why they had no further concern about the supposed explosive residue that set off bells and whistles attracting the TSA supervisor to question me as to my ID, boarding credentials,etc. TSA is a joke! They can contact me for more details if they care to defend their idiots.

Yes.. cause they don’t even let you have a smoke after..LOL.. seriously though I don’t like flying to begin with so they made the decision not to easier..this year we drove out to UT from Chicago.. 3 year ago on the last family reunion we drove to CO.. 2 years before we drove to SC.. 2 years before that we flew to AZ it was to much of a hassle then and it’s worse now.. and cost way to much.. to many restrictions on how much luggage so buying anything is to costly.. no driving is the way to go..

Hello, My wife and I average 3-4 flying trips per year. But have decided to boycott US Airports and drive. We plan to drive up to Vancouver BC and fly from there if we are going overseas. This is ashame, bad government that creates enemies, eventually views everyone as an enemy out of the necessity to control.

The Israel airlines offered to teach our idiots had to conduct themselves in finding out who the “bad” guys are and the idiot in the W. House said “no thanks.”..He is so anti Semitic won’t even let them teach our idiots in the airports! El Al has had a safe airline and they do a thorough job. That Janet Neapolitano is beyond belief! She is so stupid there are no words to describe her ignorance. I fly only Southwest so far no problems with crouch searches or x-rays. You know they sit and watch them and get a laugh or two. Thes foreigners checking us and many can barely even walk and chew gum.

I used to fly, before 9/11, when it was still civilized!

Our own American government has caved in to terrorists, and is taking the freedoms from us which the terrorists never could.

I flew twice last month… I’m done with it until I start getting treated like I have rights again. I saw the scanners in Atlanta and was praying to myself they did not choose me. When we start feeling terrorized by our own government, it’s time to stop flying…. Especially when real terrorists can walk right by while 10yr old children are having their genitals groped. It’s a sad day for America. Go to hell TSA

Remember the outcry from the left during the Bush administration about infringing on our privacy because Homeland Security was listening to cell phone conversations from overseas, etc.?

Where are those libs now? This is a blatant infringement of privacy, an illegal search and a flagrant violation of our Constitutional rights, but nothing is being done about it. Where’s the ACLU?

This admin has done more to violate our civil rights than any other in history, and yet nothing is being done about it.

I’ve already made alternate plans. Driving 1800 miles to mom’s house. Taking the train 900 miles do sister’s house.

Think…Smugglers and convicts have been using a convenient hiding place for years.
How will the get-along-go-along-for-”security” crowd feel about the body cavity searches, after the first terrorist attack, involving explosives that are smuggled right past the body scanners and groin gropers, jammed up someone’s butt?

Starve the beast!

Drive, probably cheaper and quicker for less than 300 miles. Rail, takes longer but much more comfortable. Business, tele-conference, fast and cheap, a lot of advancements have been made, check Skype for entry level.

If these measures reduce business (victims) by any significant amount they WILL pay attention.

The rest of the world laughs at us. Our government treats “We the people” like we’re terrorists, pushing us closer and closer to rising up. Actually, they want us to rise up so they can say “Told you so” and then crush us. We had a good run of democracy in the USA. Now it’s time for a dictatorship. Yes, it’s sad, but we’re basically a gutless, dumbed-down populace with its head in the sand. Just look at who we elected President. The mighty USA no longer has any moral standing in the eyes of the world. It’s over for us as a free nation. End of story.

You Americans are looking pretty silly from over here in Europe. Common sense seems to have left you.

I thought pornography and pedophilia was illegal…Why would any loving parent for any reason allow a stranger to take a naked photo of their child or let them be gropped? Is there no shame you would not let your children endure just so you can feel safe?

Our fear will be our undoing, and to the government goes the spoils.

As for me, a terrorist by any other name is still a terrorist and I am not fooled by the color of law…Anyone who touches my child will get his/her throat ripped out.

I question if any of this security prevented anything what so ever. TSA did not prevent the Shoe, Christmas Day or the Underwear Bombers; the alert passengers did that. The TSA did not prevent the toner bombs from leaving the ground and most of all. The TSA fails to detect 50% of the guns, knives that used to test security at Airports.

Therefore, is TSA working or is it a big flop? I think it is a big flop and terrorist are not afraid of such a reactionary agency. Go back to the way it was (pre-9/11) and do not let the terrorist win.

MY WIFE & I CANCEELLING our trip to Florida now, because of the new airport “gestapo” abuse…. NO-BAMA has REALLY taken our country to the beginning of total control of ALL OUR LIVES..what is next, I dare even ask????

Another thought….If this is such a great way to catch terrorists, why aren’t are jails full of them? You never hear about anyone being caught with anything on them…..

My winter vacay travel arrangements: Amtrak + bus.

My wife wants to take the Kids to Disney World in California and tour around for around 3 weeks, we live in Australia. I have asked her to find an alternative as I do not wish to travel to America. I don’t wish to punish the American people for the actions of government.

However I must conclude until the people wake up enough to take back their country and start following their own rules (constitution etc..) I can’t trust your country with my family.

My advice – Ron Paul 2012

I wish I could make alternative plans. I live in Alaska. If I’m going to visit my family on the east coast, the only way I can go is to fly.

They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.

–Benjamin Franklin

TSA has gone past the point of logic with this. To ensure a 100% chance of millions of children and adults being molested and irradiated against a maybe .000001% chance that this will deter a suicidal terrorist instead of just motivate him to go the extra mile and place explosives in his anal cavity makes no sense. And don’t fool yourselves, once this is accepted and that terrorist does slip through with his rectum-bomb, we and our children will soon be subject to “enhanced probings” by high-school drop-outs. We have to act now, not just blog. Copy and paste your comments and send them to your congressmen and senators. Print them out and snail mail them too. Fill their inboxes. Take your country back before it’s too late!

I am a retired airline captain. I used to love to fly. Today, the seats have gotten closer together and there is less and less legroom, there is a charge for checked baggage that should be free, one has to remove one’s shoes, one has to take one’s laptop computer out of the case, one cannot carry shaving cream and toothpaste (now considered liquids although one is a foam and the other is a paste), and now we have full body scans and patdowns. Enough is enough!

I have a nice van and the Interstate highway system to get across the country. I prefer to drive.

My flying will be limited to trips across the ocean where flying is an absolute necessity.

We cancelled our planned sailing vacation in the Caribbean in March and will instead motor through Florida. The airlines, Caribbean hotels, restaurants and sailboat leasing company are the losers.

Yep, and these measure didn’t stop 9/11 either.

Our relatives and friends died in wars for the rights our federal government unconstitutionally forfeited in the name of terrorist security after 9/11.

The truth is, American citizens have more to fear, day in and day out, from government “security” agents than militant Islamic terrorists.

I use to fly to Hawaii 2 to 3 times a yearsince 1974. As things have changed i.e. charging for the 2nd bag to charging for the 1st bag too on some airlines my flights have decreased; then came the new pat down rules and required naked scanner. I don’t go anymore; I stopped going as of 2008. Each trip benefited the state of Hawaii with revenue totaling 3 to 5 grand. I’m rejoicing now that I’m saving all this money and spending less elsewhere; any place I can drive that is.

The New Nazi regimes will not stop at the airports, it is their foothold. Watch to see this spread like a cancer so they can keep control over us.

After spending all this money, hasseling American Citizens, and acting like complete morons, the real question is, what have they accomplished? Have the caught or arrested ANYONE trying to do anything other than travel peacefully yet? NO! Dismantle their system and lets go about our business again.

Yes. When Napolitano and all of Congress have to submit to the same degradation that the rest of American have to, let me know.

This is a horrible, and leading poll.

# Yes – I will make alternate travel plans to avoid intrusive security scans and patdowns
# No – It is a necessary procedure to ensure terror plots are thwarted

How about including:
# No – I must fly, and therefore suffer what I believe is an illegal search.
# No – I’m indifferent.

9/11 happened and we’ve been suffering ever since. Our rights are being stripped every day. Let me tell you what SHOULD have happened:
- We invade Afghanistan after they took their “aid and abet” Osama. Screw the Marshall plan – if we can’t find him, we leave and plan to come back when we think we can. Let the enemy in Afghanistan rebuild their own country.
- We leave Iraq where it is. Who cares?

Have you figured out how much money I’ve saved you so far? 9 years later and I’m not embroiled in two wars.

I MIGHT make the cockpit doors safer,and I WOULD arm and train the pilots. (And for the record, if we’re going to insult our pilots by implying they’re glorified bus drivers, then lets arm the bus drivers too.)

The message I would send is:
America is the land of the FREE and the home of the BRAVE. You come into OUR country and screw with us, we’ll bomb you to the stone age (which is about a week ago, based on how you’re living today). I wouldn’t make my countrymen suffer the indignities of the Patriot Act, nor the intrusive security measures. The US WAS the big dog, and should have acted like it all along.

I am European and I had planned to go to the US in the Spring of 2011, rent a car and travel around Southwest USA for 4 weeks. But I will make different plans this time.

I hate flying. I always did. The long waits, the check in, the delays, the bad service, the food, the non-stop praying that your luggage made it on board this time…

But until now I always thought it was worth it, but this is way too much. I love the US and I would have loved visiting a new corner of this great nation, but having to choose between posing for pornographic pictures or accepting a government sanctioned sexual assault? If this is what you have to accept before being allowed on a plane in the US, I will not go. I will take a plane and my money elsewhere.

Obviously, 98% is meaningless. It has to be a full 100% of freedom-lovers. Obviously, that’s not going to happen because parents are willing to allow their own children to raise their tiny hands up in submission and surrender, and watch idly as an authority figure looks at their nude little body. What’s next? When does everybody have to bend over to get a better view? Sick.

The ragheads won, didn’t they? We now have f-ing idiot security people in place who don’t think, invasion of our privacy, a huge organization that has not prevented a damn thing since they were created but have collected cuticle sissors, manicure sets and lots of bottled water and cola. Support no travel day. If successful then it should be upped to once a week. Defund TSA and put the money into research and profiling. Just because we are human doesn’t mean we can’t be smart.

I’m not flying anyplace! If I can’t drive there I’m not going! I just cancelled a trip in March, I will do something closer to home. I’m a cattle farmer and it reminds me a lot of how we handle and control the heard. I really don’t care if the airlines stop flying tomorrow and all the TSA gropers have to go and get a real job! Just stop flying!!! God how much would it cut down on the nations oil consumption? Of course the TSA is part of a big government union and would probably get bailed out and the heard, the tax payer will have to make the sacrifice for them?

This government incompetence is astounding. Like the ostrich with it’s head in the sand, the TSA is standing guard over the demise of the transportation industry in the US. Why is it that every time there is a false flag “terrorist” attempt, we loose more and more of our civil and personal freedoms. Who is the government at war with here? The American public or Muslim terrorists? This whole situation is absurd, and Commissar Janet Incompetano is the head of the ostrich, being guided along by her ample nose by the various heads of “intelligence” (an oxymoron if ever there was one) organs of this incompetent government.

This is just Obama KILLING the airline industry. You are witnessing the end of air travel for the unwashed. Only those who are in the uppercrust of society should fly, the Obama’s and the Pelosi’s, we peons will just have to take the train. If they really wanted great airport security they would adopt the Israeli program of selective interviews, it really works. When was the last time anyone tried to detonate their underware on an Israeli jet?

Reuters will take its sweet time posting this comment, if at all, but here’s what’s happening with these screenings:

1. Obama/Soros Progressives are taking down the airline industry in order to nationalize it. Just like Government motors.

2. Obama/Soros Progressives are once again hurting the economy. It seems there’s nothing these folks do that actually helps us or our economy, now is there?

3. Obama/Soros Progressives want to push us all to revolt so they might declare martial law and make the puppet Obama king in name only.

Think, people. There is not one thing Obama/Soros Progressives have done that has helped us, helped our nation, helped the world. Everything is about destroying America, the Constitution. Think. Think. Think.

And where are the airlines on this? Do they want to be nationalized? Are they finished as private companies? Won’t their stockholders lose big? Why are they not speaking out against this?

Amazing this TSA invasion comes right before the busy holiday travel season, huh? What a coincidence…or not.

What if there are no coincidences?

Each year I drive 500 miles to start my vacation. I used to fly but the hassel has become too much. I fly no more.

Anyone who thinks that these horrific TSA procedures are ok, (and even including taking ones shoes off which is degrading and undignified), does not deserve to live in a free society anymore.

These searches are unconstitutional. Planes can be brought down in other ways so we are not better protected. It sure is an easy way to prevent our mobility.

As retired senior naval officer (aviator) and licensd FAA rated pilot holding an air transport rating with more than 14000 hours of flight experience, and having been cleared for a top secret clearance by US authorities, I no longer use our domestic air carriers. The last time I used a commercial carrier, I was fondled by a pervert TSA person, and my reaction to that action nearly landed me in jail. Until some sanity is restored to the system, I suspect the public will reject the TSA polocy at an ever increasing rate.

My wife already did the arithmetic. Our family of four can rent an SUV and drive home for Christmas CHEAPER than flying. Overall trip time goes from 8 hours to 12 hours, no big deal when you consider the 8 hour trip time is NEVER 8 hours, there’s to and from the airports PLUS delays. So long airlines, See-Ya.

This kind of abusive overreach and violation of the 4th Amendment was completely predictable by the very act of FEDERALIZING Airport Security and creating a new agency, full of FEDERAL EMPLOYEE security guards! If we simply kept private security, and issued security guidelines comparable to those of El Al… we’d be FAR better off!

Meantime, I have no plans to fly as long as TSA is in charge of security! If I can’t get there in 10 hrs of driving, I probably won’t be visiting that destination!

Before Deciding I would like to see Goofy Napolitano go through the Body Scan 100 times then have her checked for radiation and or Derangemnt syndrome….

SCAN THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!

Why don’t they take their fancy naked scanner equipment and surley TSA perverts, go down to our Southern border, and apply these security measures there?

Why not? They keep telling us thay can’t secure the border. If they can grope, fondle and screen 49 million American citizens each month, CERTAINLY THEY CAN DO THE SAME FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!

There are a damn site fewer than 49 million illegals and the resulting safety and lives saved from stopping drugs, weapons, disease, murders, rapists, and gangsters would be far greater removing shoes and taking grandma’s tweezers at airports!

THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN SAFETY, THEY ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN COWING AMERICA!

I will not allow myself to be sexually assaulted or imaged by the perverts at the TSA or DHS. I will walk, drive or take a train rather than be subjected to this illegal, unconstitutional invasion of my privacy.

I’m an Army wife living in the Republic of Korea (South Korea). We’ve been here for 2 years.

Korea is squared away and they don’t do this invasive, unacceptable crap. You go through the proper searches but you will NOT be screened naked or fondled.

And their air service on Korean Air is so much better than American airlines. The good old USA which I love very much could learn a thing or two about service from Korea.

Generals searches in airport security but search the folks who look suspicious closer. Its’ that simple.

Georgia law (U.C.G.A. 16-6-22.1) follows. There is, to the best of my knowledge, any exemption for TSA (or anyone else). I suspect that other states have similar statutes and I believe that the states should prosecute TSA agents for violations. This would set the stage for some clarity on whether and to what extent the Feds can violate state protection of individual citizens.

§ 16-6-22.1. Sexual battery

(a) For the purposes of this Code section, the term “intimate parts” means the primary genital area, anus, groin, inner thighs, or buttocks of a male or female and the breasts of a female.

(b) A person commits the offense of sexual battery when he or she intentionally makes physical contact with the intimate parts of the body of another person without the consent of that person.

(c) Except as otherwise provided in this Code section, a person convicted of the offense of sexual battery shall be punished as for a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature.

(d) A person convicted of the offense of sexual battery against any child under the age of 16 years shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years.

(e) Upon a second or subsequent conviction under subsection (b) of this Code section, a person shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned for not less than one nor more than five years and, in addition, shall be subject to the sentencing and punishment provisions of Code Section 17-10-6.2.

With TSA running effectively Burning the contitution and trampling the Bill Of Rights, we have become Nazi Germany (if you have nothing to hide, then why do you resist the government), or the Soviet Union (only people who are enemies of the state would oppose or question the government)… or maybe a the worst of both.

The TSA is a completely un-necessary government agency (started by George W. Bush out of fear, and funded by liberal Democrats in Congress who love expensive but useless new government agencies and projects).

TSA has not caught one terrorist in over 8 years (they jsut make up news stories from time to time claiming that they stopped some un-named person who was thinking about some terrorist action from flying).

The purpose of all the TSA screenings, pat-downs, etc., is to establish that the United States has decisively LOST the “War On Terror” — the phantom menace of terrorism has caused the U.S.A. to abandon liberty and trade it for some imaginary sense of security — and we have ended up with neither (as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas jeffereson, Thomas Paine, etc. warned we would).

Being subjected to radiation and/or invasive body searches will not keep us safe. We need to put a stop to this now. Travel by train is much more pleasant, with more room anyway, and is cheaper. If you must fly, always elect to opt out of the scanners. TSA is trying to force people to go through the scanners by making the alternative as unpleasant as possible. How do they think sexual abuse survivors will react to these procedures?

I am writing to all the airlines I fly with and informing them that I will not be using them as long as these measures are in place. The airline business is already in financial trouble. If they see they are losing more business because of this, they will put pressure on the TSA and the government to drop these ridiculous measures. This is all just theater. It does nothing to keep us safe.

I’m selling my place in Florida at a loss(of course). The wife and I thought we could spend the winters there in a thirty year old trailer, as a respite from Maine winters.
How wrong we where. Taxes here are murder, the cost of air travel and the hassle of TSA,and the cost of gas for the
drive back and forth make it unsupportable. I do not think our case is unique. I’ll bet there are many more like us.
We will never fly commercial airlines again in this life.

As a member of the flying industry, let me say first that the screenings are largely a show put on to allay the fears of the flying public. At times, 40% of weapons they are supposed to stop, aren’t. The doses of radiation for the frequent flyer ARE cumulatively, dangerous. And just who are we supposed to be finding? American citizens? We would certainly be less of a threat to ourselves if OUR BORDERS WERE SECURE so terrorists couldn’t enter so freely and then move about the country. The body scanners and the advanced pat downs are embarrassing and intrusive. Passengers are treated as the enemy. I for one, don’t feel any more secure, after being subjected to the TSA screenings. I can’t stop flying but this isn’t the way to successfully protect America. When the time comes for terrorists to strike next, none of these methods currently employed, will have the slightest affect in stopping them.

Sure looks like the bastards have won, doesn’t it?

I will submit to pat downs or xray screening when The President, every member of Congress, the Supreme Court and all others who fly in this country are required to each time they fly as well. NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!

It’s time we as americans start sending a message to our representatives and to the airlines industry. Get this changed – in the meantime, we will be spending our dollars elsewhere!!

Your poll offers bogus choices. No, I am not less likely to fly because of stepped-up security procedures; however, it’s not because I think they are “necessary to ensure terror plots are thwarted.”

Why can’t you suffice with “yes,” “no” and “undecided” without characterizing those responses.

Well, I’m not a big fan of the security scanners, but I suppose the pat down will have to do. I just wish they had a booth or curtain to do the search, that would make it less or a hot topic, for me at least.

I sent this to US Airways today…no chance they will do the right thing, but here’s hoping.

Dear US Airways – I booked this flight from Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) as, at the time of booking, Dulles was the only local airport that did not have the cancer causing body scanner technology used for security screenings. I have now learned that Dulles has implemented this technology in the past few weeks, which I understand may be opted out of, and an alternative method of literal groping of the groin area, used in lieu of the scanner. I have 3 small children (under 5 years old) travelling with me, whom I will not allow to be irradiated by these machines or fondled by TSA. As a parent, I teach my children about sexual harassment and improper touching, and this method of search undermines my ability to guard my children from the present and future dangers. What’s more, how do I tell my children that its OK to be groped by a person in uniform? As a result, I am going to cancel my flight with US Airways, and given the circumstances, DEMAND MY FARE BE REFUNDED IN ITS ENTIRETY. I am in contact with various media outlets and maintaining an online blog regarding my experience thus far with US Airways (I called your customer service today, spoke with Myra, and was told that I could not speak to anyone further regarding this issue,and that my only communication with US Airways regarding this policy and potential refund would have to be through this online complaint portal). I expect US Airways to respond favorably given the public outcry regarding these scanners and the groping methods used by TSA. Should US Airways refuse this request, I will also pursue legal action, as the above methods of scanning and groping were not in place at the time of booking. I will NEVER fly US Airways again, nor any carrier for that matter, until this issue is resolved. It is also worth nothing that Johns Hopkins University has come out with data suggesting that these machines are indeed cancer causing, and many, many victims rights organizations have come out against the new pat down procedures. And, US Airways’ own pilots association has now urged their pilots to refuse the scanner. Please respond to this request, again, I will be widely distributing via any and all available media, my experience and your response as a company. From a business perspective, I would hope that US Airways finds it possible to do the right thing. Sincerely – one of your many anti-irradiation, anti-molestation customers – KK from VA

I am uncomfortable just driving by an airport in the USA, and I haven’t entered one since shortly after 9/11. I’m sure that there is a difference between a US airport and a Nazi concentration camp, but I haven’t been able to figure out what it s yet.

It seems incredible to me that not ALL persons are undergoing these searches. NO ONE should be exempt for any reason. What is good for one is good for all. Faces must also be shown completely during the scan and prior to boarding at security check in with a picture ID.
You cannot have any safety, if any are exempted from the search.

Sick, depraved and perverted.

U.S. government message to Americans and visiting tourists:
We own your bodies; and as the owners of your bodies, we have the right to expose your naked bodies; give you massive amounts of radiation, give you cancers and destroy your health. If you refuse our humiliating, degrading, health destroying body scanners, we will sexually assault you.

This has NOTHING to do with security. It’s all about power and control and destroying our health, basic human rights and our freedom. Ruling elites know the body scanners are useless:

“Full-body scanners are waste of money, Israeli expert says
A leading Israeli airport security expert says the Canadian government has wasted millions of dollars to install “useless” imaging machines at airports across the country.

“I don’t know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747,” Rafi Sela told parliamentarians probing the state of aviation safety in Canada.”
http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Full+ body+scanners+waste+money+Israeli+expert +says/2941610/story.html

Obama has shutdown oil drilling, he is spending this country into debt, and now he wants to kill air travel. Do you see a pattern? He is right on plan!

We have stopped flying when all of this intrusive security went into place after 9/11. The cost, the intrusion, for the benefit – two people have been caught on the plane making it through the security measures – leads me to believe that all of these measures are way too costly for the benefit we have received. With these new policies, I will never fly – unless I am forced to for business or a family emergency – never!

Of course TSA does not care that we object due to moral and religious ground. NAZIs never cared. This is more than FASCISM it is Nazism/Satanic.

Well I have news for them GOD is watching and we are already starting to pray. Let me remind everybody several months ago there were 33 miners in a Chilean mine 700 meters (not feet but meters) a rescue like that was unique never done before. Well a lot of people in Chile and around the world started to pray and they came out all alive. The head of the operations André Sougarret was interviewed after the rescue and he did mentioned how the drilling equipment took and unexplainable turn that made it hit the mine tunnel right in the middle.

Evil forces always start making their move around special dates like Thanksgivings and Christmas. They are so predictable. They usually target old and disable people, women and children. I saw in the internet people in wheelchair getting pad-downed, I saw in the internet a lady with a prosthetic leg asking her to remove her leg. The scan machines are not suitable for disable people, they do not meet the standard (one more reason to make them illegal, I think they target disable people because they probably have a special place in havens and they are envious of them.

The Chilean rescuers did not just pray they took action and work day and night until they got them all out, with a little help redirecting the drill; we need to do the same. We are lucky, my wife has a titanium hip she will be a perfect target and we will not travel to see our daughter and grandson, but they decided to drive down and stay with us for a week. We are lucky.

But if you read this comment and you see an old couple that will be lonely during thanksgivings invite them over that day, you can always add some extra plates at the family table.

God Bless us all during this attack to our values.

Wow people are using this poll as proof that people are against scanners and the TSA. All this poll does is let the people who are opposed to it say that this is proof of their case (They post it on sites and tell people to vote yes). And depending on the polling method its easy to setup a bot to auto poll a result you want. What happened to unbiased journalism?

Do a Real Poll not some web poll, there is nothing scientific and reliable about this poll.

My husband and I are taking the auto train to Florida next week. It will cost us a total of $300 more, and take about 14 hours longer, over going by air and renting a car, but we feel it’s worth it to avoid these invasive “security” measures.

To answer Montpassat’s question Do any politicians have a financial interest in the installation of Scamming machines at Scareports the answer is……wait for it…..Yes….
Heir Chertoff aka Commandant of Security Uberland under the second Shrub administration. Chertoff is one of the owners of company that is making the X-ray scammers and selling them to scareports and making millions.
I’m not flying anymore in protest. Let your spending habits reflect your demand for freedom and protection of American’s IV Amendment Rights against illegal search and seizure.
Speak Up, Stand Up, Opt Out.

Our government wants U.S. to accept them as “big brother”. Their last big assault was after 911. This is a conditioning process. The Truth is “We the People” must completely reverse this mentality and let Our “public servants” learn to accept U.S. as “big brother” over them.

We must condition them – Starting NOW!

They want to see how much “We the People” will allow them to dis-respect U.S. Its all about Power and Control! Will Our government control U.S. or will “We the People” now use Our rightful Constitutional Authority to stand firm and tell them “HOW IT IS”?

What happens now will decide many issues in the future. Enough is Enough!

This issue must be the “line in the sand”. Our Personal Freedom and Personal Liberty must Not be compromised. In fact, “We the People” must move that line way back.

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” –Benjamin Franklin

I value ALL my God-given Freedoms and Liberties, Our Great Constitution and Our most very important National Sovereignty. I am more than happy to take more risks in life to preserve my maximum share of Freedoms and Liberty.

“It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.” –James Madison

“It’s time for the American people to stand up, shrug off the shackles of our government and TSA at the airport.” -Ron Paul

http://www.tomdavidd.com/blog/?page_id=1 65

I think that while people are protesting TSA “patdowns” and full-body x-ray scanners they should be protesting the systematic rifling of passengers’ luggage that is being engaged in by TSA employees. While I agree that luggage inspection is necessary, the employee searching the luggage should be 100% identifiable and linkable to passenger complaints. The agencies hand-inspecting luggage should also be liable for loss or damage. Even when items are not simply stolen from the luggage, the re-closure of luggage is often careless, which can itself lead to loss or damage to the contents or to the bags themselves. The need for security cannot be used as an excuse for damage, harassment or assault (sexual or otherwise). The public is now funally catching on the the fact that “security” is a multi-billion dollar business, in which the government officials mandating the procedures have a stake. We must kill off this crime and corruption; time for investigations and arrests.

I live in Europe, and now I wish I had gone to the US before 9/11, I have always wanted to see NY. Except back then I couldn’t afford to, now I can but there is no way I’ll pass trough an airport in the US. The crazyness began with fingerprinting and extended background checks, then came stories of tourists being mistreated and humiliated in US airports. These days your socalled security seems to have degenerated into humiliation for the sake of humiliation. Abolish the TSA and go back to letting the airport handle security, maybe then I’ll come.

I am a homophobic male and I respectfully request a youngish female attendant for my patdown. I will take my viagra before getting in line. But if she squeezes too hard…it might detonate.

The 4th Amendment states “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized”. This to me means that unless you are a suspect in a criminal investigation, it is unlawful for your person to be searched. TSA employees, as employees of the US government, are required to take an oath…the same oath taken by the military, to “…preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”. Consequently, these persons are, either knowingly or unknowlingly, breaking that oath every time they search a person as a part of airport screening. Unless the TSA comes out and states that all travelers are suspects in an ongoing criminal investigation regarding domestic terrorism, they must cease and desist. Congress needs to act.

The government can not protect you. They’re supposed to protect Constitutional rights which LIMIT WHAT GOVERNMENT can do, not the people. We have ALL the rights, not what they’ve been telling us over and over.

It was true then, and it’s even truer now…

“Those who would give up Essential Liberty
to purchase a little Temporary Safety,
deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

Ben Frankilin

Well, on some trips. I can drive a few hundred miles and in some cases take a train. But face it, we have to fly sometimes, and that is why I want the TSA gone. They add nothing to my safety, they cost money and are a real annoyance.

WHY DO WE PUT UP WITH THIS AND ALL THE OTHER GARBAGE FROM OUR GOVERNMENT? THIS IS OUR COUNTRY AND WE NEED TO TAKE IT BACK. VOTE FOR POLITICIAN’S THAT WILL WORK FOR THE PEOPLE. GET OBAMA AND ANY OTHERS LIKE HIM OUT OF OFFICE. STUDY WHO YOU ARE VOTING FOR.

WHY DO WE PUT UP WITH THIS AND ALL THE OTHER GARBAGE FROM OUR GOVERNMENT? THIS IS OUR COUNTRY AND WE NEED TO TAKE IT BACK. VOTE FOR POLITICIAN’S THAT WILL WORK FOR THE PEOPLE. GET OBAMA AND ANY OTHERS LIKE HIM OUT OF OFFICE. STUDY WHO YOU ARE VOTING FOR.

How about offering some real choices in the poll:

- Yes, it is likely that I will fly less as a result of the security measures.

- Yes, I will fly less, but for other reasons.

- No, I will continue to fly the same amount. The security measures are justified.

- No, I will continue to fly the same amount, despite the fact that the security measures are unjustified.

- I do not fly, and never have.

- Undecided.

In March 2011 I drove ~1,800 miles for work to avoid the TSA body scanners and intrusive patdowns.

This cost me Time and Money. I prefer to fly. It is cheaper, faster, and safer, but I prefer even more to not be molested and not have a digital image of my body saved or seen.

I plan to avoid flying until the body scanners are not used and the intrusive patdowns are eliminated.

To be legal, the TSA must have a warrant or probable cause and arrest the suspect before a patdown. Currently the TSA is operating illegally.

It is clear the TSA efforts are not about making the USA safer. Janet Napolitano said the US-Mexico border is secure, which it is no.

I can only pray for God’s help and for good elected officials who will correct the problems and wrong doings in the TSA. Protect The People from the TSA.