CHICAGO -- Travelers dismayed by airport body scans are headed to airports Wednesday with the makings of any good protest: handmade fliers, eye-catching placards, slogan-bearing T-shirts -- and Scottish kilts.
The loosely organized effort dubbed National Opt-Out Day hopes to highlight what some call unnecessarily intrusive security screenings. Others fear it will merely snarl pre-Thanksgiving airline operations on one of the busiest travel days of the year.
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This kind of behavior is ridiculous. If you don't want to go through these security measures, then don't fly. We don't have a right to fly, it's a privilege that we voluntarily pay for. Do you want to see planes flying into buildings again? Like it not, that is the world we live in. We should be thankful that these policies are in place to protect us.
im sure TSA officials are terribly upset. they still have an 8-hour shift like the rest of us. so it doesnt matter to them. these whack-jobs are the ones delaying their own travel. im sure most of the pilots will take off without them too.
Come on 10:34 stop telling us not to fly.
The Fed govt has never investigated the CRIMES of 911 in the first place. In the 2nd place they have used those unsolved crimes as an excuse for draconian police state measures against the American people.
As far as our govt is concerned we the people are the threat and a police state is the answer to that threat.
Our govt no longer serves us, we serve it. Physically assaulting everyone of us and or taking nude photographs of our bodies is a violation of our right to privacy. It flies in the face of good common sense.
If there were any terrorists (other than those posed by the CIA) then the so-called terrorists have absolutely won. We have been reduced to an enslaved people.
Wake up and smell the facism.
To 10:34 AM,
Read this. Learn it. Attention to (2). Here is the LAW: 49 U.S.C. § 40103 : US Code - Section 40103: Sovereignty and use of airspace
(a) Sovereignty and Public Right of Transit. - (1) The United
States Government has exclusive sovereignty of airspace of the
United States.
(2) A citizen of the United States has a public right of transit
through the navigable airspace. To further that right, the
Secretary of Transportation shall consult with the Architectural
and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board established under
section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 792)
before prescribing a regulation or issuing an order or procedure
that will have a significant impact on the accessibility of
commercial airports or commercial air transportation for
handicapped individuals.
12:09, re-read it yourself:
"...accessibility of commercial airports or commercial air transportation for handicapped individuals." Not accessibility for all, just those handicapped individuals.
The terrorists DID win. If you think about it, there is something in your everyday life that is different than it was on September 10th, and not just flying. Just because they won that battle, it does not mean they have won the war. Taking precautions to help keep weapons (in this instance, planes) out of terrorist hands is only a small sacrifice that we have to make our country a safer placer to live. The country will never be the idealistic, naive place it used to be. Roll with the punches or be a prisoner in your own home.
The ignorance of all these naive Americans is going to get a bunch of innocent people killed! The TSA is doing this for OUR SAFETY, the safety that has been compromised in the past by slack security and screening! Now that the TSA is doing EVERYTHING it can to protect Americans from terrorism, you crazy protestors want to stop it! GET A LIFE and leave my safety alone! If I see a protester outside of a security check when I board my plane this week then they are going to have a little more to worry about than TSA "Touching their junk."
IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT THEN DON'T FLY!
2:20
Dont make threats on the internet.
The CIA is monitoring your comments and may mistake you for a terrorist.
The TSA is already treating you as a terrorist, but you probably don't want the CIA to send a drone air attack against you and your family - now do you? I know I wouldnt' want it.
Once our government begins to tell us where we can go and how to behave, we have become victims of a Dictatorship. I don't wish that upon America.
The govt has already proven it cannot protect you. Now they are the ones who are attacking your liberty and you are willingly giving it up to them. Wake up and stop being silly. This is too important to simply tell people don't fly etc.
Get real. Think about what you are saying even if it is anonymous. I do.
I hate terrorists, and people who try to tell me what to do or not to do.
The so-called terrorists suck at their jobs because I'm not afraid, and nobody I know is afraid.
One guy tried to light his tennis shoes on fire with a wet pack of matches.
Another guy tried to light his underwear on fire.
Now we have to submit to draconian gestapo practices by minimum wage earning TSA thugs?
Forget it.
I say the terror threat is exaggerated in order to fund the military industrial complex which no obviously includes backscatter radiation machines taking naked body images. Thugs!
Americans are chickens if we don't stand up to this bullying by an out of control corporate facist dicatatorship.
I agree. Has everyone forgotten 9/11? It's going to happen again. They have already tried. All the failed attempts (which failed on their own, not becuase we found them) prove that. I would submit to the body scan or pat down if it gave me the peace of mind that I wasn't going to blow up in the plane. If you don't like it, don't fly. If you go to a resturant and they serve something you don't like, you don't order it or eat it. Same here, if you don't like the rules (which are for our safety) then don't fly. Its your choice. But I am not going to blow up in a plane because the jerk next to me felt "violated" by a body scan. Give me a break! As for the radiation - cell phones and blue toothes are going to kill you long before the body scan does. I thing the TSA and the airlines have every right to insist on those measures. Also, the airlines have a duty to thier employees - the pilots and stewartesses - as well as the public to keep them safe.
1:05 PM
To further that right, the
Secretary of Transportation shall
OMG you have a serious comprehension problem.
It is not just for disabled people. They EXTENDED the RIGHT to INCLUDE disabled people.
Stop the uninformed spin on the facts.
2:20 PM
How old are you, 12?
Just curious about an article posted yesterday on msn.com about airport scanners. They listed all the current airports with the new, expesive and see all scanners. I did not see any major airport listed near Washington D.C. I thought this was very interesting. I also find it interesting that pilots and flight attendants are able to opt out of scans simply because their unions put up a fuss. Where does the line of big government end? Will they soon require the same "security" measures at all public places? After all, markets in the Middle-East have been targeted by terrorists for decades. Will we soon have to be scanned, screened and patted down at the grocery store?
Didn't Hitler start out his genocide campaign with innocent seeming safety measures that soon escalated to genocide? Didn't his security team and troops of soldiers simply follow orders in order to keep their jobs?
Where does it end? Focused attention on terrorism only brings more of the same. Just when all of our attention is focused on airport scanners and pat-downs is when it comes in another way.
I say, turn the attention to other major issues - education and healthcare. Let the armed guards and trained dogs do their work at airports and public events. Let the systems that are already in place do their job - all of the databases, all of hidden cameras, all of the current red flags that have worked for a very long time.
With the way airlines are packing full every seat, wouldn't you notice if the guy next to you was trying to ignite his underwear?
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