Scanners and pat-downs upset airline passengers
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WASHINGTON – Nearly a week before the Thanksgiving travel crush, federal air security officials were struggling to reassure rising numbers of fliers and airline workers outraged by new anti-terrorism screening procedures they consider invasive and harmful.
Across the country, passengers simmered over being forced to choose scans by full-body image detectors or probing pat-downs. Top federal security officials said Monday that the procedures were safe and necessary sacrifices to ward off terror attacks.
It's unbelievable that it's come to this. I have a flight in a few days from one major airport to another and I'm not looking forward to this.
Do you think there is anything that average Americans can do to make the TSA abandon this policy? Americans of all stripes, left and right, generally strongly support a right to privacy, and I would expect that to extend to forcing strangers to grope you or look at your naked body to avoid a $10,000 fine.
I don't want to hear any bellyaching about Obama, because you know the GOP would do this too. I want to hear about what ordinary citizens can do to get this policy overturned, because I think if enough people get involved it could happen. I don't see this as making us safer, I see this as making us humiliated, and making us want to fly less, thus making us a less mobile country and killing off the tourism and airline industries. That is to say, this is making us terrorized.

