Washington Post
The protest on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving was called National Opt-Out Day, and its organizers urged air travelers to refuse the Transportation Security Administration's full-body scanning machines.
But many appeared to have opted out of opting out. The TSA reported that few of the 2 million people flying Wednesday chose pat-downs over the scanners, with few resulting delays.
There have been high-profile acts of civil disobedience in response to the two controversial procedures recently deployed by the TSA for primary screening - the body-scanning machines and the intrusive full-body pat-downs - including software programmer John Tyner's unforgettable warning to a TSA official: "If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested." But the public seems less opposed to the scanners than civil libertarians had hoped. In a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, only 32 percent of respondents said they objected to the full-body scans, although 50 percent were opposed to the pat-downs offered as an alternative.
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I genuinely can't understand the implementation fo such an invasive system. As an American friend of mine said to me recently; if the ordinary populus of the US has no claim to privacy and has to be subjected to invasive "pat-downs" as a matter of routine in the name of the so-called war on terror, the terrorists have won in America. That is, of course, assuming in the first instance that the aforementioned terrorists are not entirely fabricated by public hype :-/
ReplyDeleteAnd honestly, it's impossible to completely eradicate any threat of terrorist attack. Political dissidence and/or terrorism is like a virus - it adapts to its' surroundings. You can be vigilant, and should be, but the threat is always there and if you completely deny people their constitutional and human rights, it defeats the purpose. These rights are what you are supposedly protecting, anyway.