Fly With Dignity

Will not fly until these scanners are removed from use and strip searches are completely halted.

The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself. Also, the TSA has not once caught a terrorist from preflight screening.

These genital searches and naked scanners do not increase security. All they do is deter people from flying. TSA should do the same as El Al Airlines, winner of the most secure airline in the world award (Global Traveler magazine, 2008).

Also, it's clear that most of the TSA procedures are not helping secure our flights, and that the expenditure *far* outweighs the thread. We are spending precious resources chasing ghosts, just like bin Laden knew we would.

I refuse to submit to unreasonable searches of my person. You will not see so much as a penny from me until this policy is rescinded. I'm willing to drive and take trains as necessary for my travel requirements.

isn't the TSA suppose to be the LAST LINE of defense in keeping the public safe?

Because of the TSA's invasive, humiliating, and dehumanizing airport security policies, I will urge all family and friends to drive or take Amtrak instead.

I idea of Body Scans, Cavity Searches and Body Searches is just downright unconstitutional and disgusting. This has got to stop!

As of right now, becoming a TSA screener is a pedofile or perverts dream job. They get PAID to MOLEST anyone who passes through the terminal and if they protest in any shape, manor, or for any reasion, they can get pulled asside for a strip search and further degredation. If anyone else were to do this, they would face sexual assult charges. TSA members who participate in this program should face manditory jail time for this abuse of power.

I will not board a plane until this is fixed.

STOP.

TSA has not stopped a single terrorist in 10 years. Stop defrauding the nation.

The current policies of the TSA make the United States an embarrassment to the global community and I am ashamed of their behavior.

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.-Ben Franklin

Enough!

The current policies of the TSA make the United States an embarrassment to the global community and I am ashamed of their behavior.

The pat downs are clearly just to discourage travelers from opting out of the scanner.

I plan to opt-out the next time and every time I fly.

Your methods are unnecessary and humiliating. They don't work and make a mockery of people's dignity.

Look you window over to Arlington. Look at those graves. They did not die so that you could defile the country with your actions. They did not die for someone like you.

This is date rape without roofies and in front of every one!

Enough with the security theater!

Bring back sanity to security. Right now, it's all about theater and reactive thinking.

I do not fear a terrorist attack. I want to trade some of my safety in for some of my liberty back.

Stop the groping and violation of basic human rights in the name of security.

Constitution first.

I will not fly until this changes. I will not stand for this degrading treatment. I AM NOT A TERRORIST, I AM A LOYAL AMERICAN CITIZEN, AND DESERVE TO BE TREATED AS SUCH!

This is complete bullshit that it's ok to treat civilians like criminals, and people will just lay back and allow it. I am going to be flying in december and am uncomfortable with the idea of going through a full body scan, because of the invasion of privacy and the fact that it's a fucking illusion of security. This does not stop hijackers or terrorists or criminals, it's just supposed tomake the regular citizenry feel like they're being taken care of by the government

Why haven't you gone through the screening Janet? How do you feel about them?

We are Americans, not terrorists, stop treating us like we are the enemy.

Unfortunately, the most determined terrorists will find ways to get around scanning and searching. Moreover, the hijackers on September 11, 2001 would NOT have been caught by scans or searches, because they were not smuggling anything onto the planes.

Defund the TSA.

One more freedom down the drain.

How many rights are we going to give up in the name of safety? These are not the principals that this country was founded on. We should not have to live in fear of our own government being unethical and unconstitutional.

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - President George Washington

Theatrical Security Administration

first they came for my belt, then they came for my shoes ...

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Learn from Israel.

I'm now revising my travel plans for the next few months to make use of the train rather than flying. With measures like this in place the terrorists *have* won.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

-Benjamin Franklin

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

TSA should use the expertise of El AL where no invasion of privacy is tolerated but security is far better that on any other airline.

If this change in policy is due to a "terrorist" threat, then the "terrorists" have already won: using our own security to molest, harass and endanger ourselves.

i am so tired of our liberties getting ripped away everyday. its ridiculous.

The 4th Amendment exists for a reason.

Unconstitutional, plain and simple.

Just because we choose to purchase a plane ticket does not mean we are innocent until proven guilty. We must keep out constitutional right against unreasonable searches.

It's unfortunate, but I will attempt to avoid flying as long as these molestation procedures exist. I will rather drive 2 days to get to my destination before subjecting myself to these barbaric measures. It's disgusting to see what we've come to.

I am a frequent flyer (150k a year) and I have long commented on how much I hate this horrible invasion of privacy. This has to stop!

I will fly much less until these constraints are removed.

This is absolutely absurd.

I absolutely will not support this economy by purchasing plane tickets and flying while this is in effect. You WILL not violate my privacy or my body, nor will I allow you to humiliate or dehumanize me. Shame on you.

Hahah! Oh it's fine just get some of of this xray radiation. So what? Your arm falls off? Atleast you're "safe" from terrorists. Ugh. this is outa control. People can't let their fear of terrorism let them be so easily controlled and let their rights as a human being be taken away.

big brother is coming

I don't think the safety is worth having every person's privacy invaded to this insane level.

Unconstitutional. Safety Not Abuse

Seriously, think of the children.

I'd rather have risk with freedom than peace with slavery.

The TSA is is illegal, unethical, & abusive. If someone gropes me in a way that I would consider a sexual assault it won't matter whether they're a governmental employee or not. I have refused free-to-me airline tickets because I won't be violated by the TSA. Security Theater is only a feel-good measure for the sheep; it does nothing toward stopping criminals.

I want *real* security, not security theater with the added bonus of skin cancer.

Operating without authority or oversite, the TSA exists only to support its own structure. And in doing so makes Americans less free and less secure. With true liberty comes risk, you can be 100% safe by being 100% non-free. I choose freedom and the ability to exercise my free will. While the TSA is violating the constitution, they are violating basic human dignity.

Obsurd and sad, all this is going to do is piss everyone off more than what we are, speak up people!!

How can the TSA so blatantly violate our 4th amendment rights? I thought the Bill of Rights meant something to every citizen, including those in the government.

Government is supposed to protect its citizens safety AND rights, not choose one at the expense of the other.

Until this is fixed, airlines will not be able to receive my business - plain and simple.

While I understand the motive, it is very undignifying to be patted down or have to walk through an x-ray machine completely naked. Where is the humanity in that?

As a survivor of sexual trauma and a mother, I'm appalled at this and afraid of the message it is sending, especially to young women.

I am not an American but when I fly through the USA I do not want to be treated like a terrorist. I will not be sexually molested, even to fly the Friendly Skies.

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

This are tactics to humiliate us and breed fear. To humiliate is to control. Fear is control. America is about freedom!

If any private business made it conditional to sexually molest the privates of anyone entering their premises, they'd be sued out of existence. This is so far beyond the line of rational security that it's astonishing. And as an aside, we already KNOW smugglers carry cargo rectally. If we accept genital groping, how long before rectal searches become "part of the procedure"?

No parent should subject their children to the sexual molestation being conducted in the name of "security". I will continue writing the airlines each month to tell them to point the finger at DHS and TSA for not seeing any of the cash I used to spend several times a month.

Option 1: Radiological scan to render subject visually naked.

Option 2: Stranger gropes subject invasively and aggressively on outside of clothing.

Option 3: Subject in small locked room, stripped, and inside of anus and vulva inspected.

Any of these three actions would be serious felonies if not done by the government.

I refuse to live in fear.

The TSA needs to adopt common sense policies that actually prevent terrorists from boarding, not ones that intimidate and shame lawful citizens without cause. An obvious and painful violations of our fourth amendment rights.

Feel my resistance.

I don't want my kids sent through those machines!

This is outrageous. The Nazi's made the Jews undress to humiliate them.

Pilot, fully support stopping this nonsense. A theatre of security solves nothing and for an agency with over 6.8B budget the public expect more brain and less waste in the effort of coming up with a useful security system.

In school I learned what America stood for. The TSA has become anti-American.

I will not fly, spend money at any airport or airline as long as the TSA continues to use these methods that violate the rights of American Citizen and sexually assault men, women and children with their so called enhanced pat downs or nude body scanners.

What happens if you deny them. http://johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/11/these-events-took-place-roughly-between.html

Those who would sacrifice a little bit of freedom for the illusion of a little bit of safety deserve neither.

I worked for the FAA fro 25 years before my retirement 4 years ago; I never intend to fly anywhere again. I fI can't get somewhere by train, boat or automobile, it's not worth going there.

I refuse to submit to unreasonable searches of my person. Body scanners and the new revised pat down procedures are neither constitutional, proven safe or morally sane. I whole hearty support taking this before the supreme court. Prepare for battle.

Security theatre is not security. You're not fooling anyone that's paying attention. This bullshit needs to stop.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons...against unreasonable searches...shall not be violated"

I would feel much safer with a few highly trained agents scouring the lines and parking lots at airports, rather than on a complete reliance on the bottleneck at the checkpoints. Spend the millions training TSA employees, not on digital anal probes.

We Native Americans should have had weapons checks at our boarders in 1492...fuck you white bastards!

I am appalled. I will not fly under these conditions. STOP THIS OUTRAGE.

These devices and alternative searches are unreasonable.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons...against unreasonable searches...shall not be violated"

Unless we step up for our rights, and I mean all of our rights not just a select few, the government will try to out step its bounds in order to convince us they are preserving "freedom". In reality they know not what they do. End this trend now, unless you wish to see the abomination of other civil liberties.

I stood in a backscatter machine and was directed to hold my hands up as if I were a criminal. It scanned me and I felt disgusted, ashamed and afraid, imagining who might be "checking" my naked body. After I walked out, I felt exactly the same as I did once when a man groped me on the street. I felt sick and violated.

I will be contacting both my Senator and Congressman about this issue. The use of back scatter x-ray and subsequent requirement of pat down including touching of genitalia is a CLEAR violation of our 4th Amendment rights.

Please stop this useless theater and continue improving *security* by scanning all cargo and luggage, increasing impediments to unwanted cockpit access and briefing passengers on aggresive physical tactics in case of hijacking.

Our rights are null. Terrorists winning.

This behavior must stop.

Increase airport security: ride Amtrak.

I'm glad that the TSA wants to see me naked and touch my penis but honestly I'd rather them not. These procedures are just ridiculous. Then the TSA actually catches a terrorist, I might be impressed but in the almost 10 years of service they're provided, they haven't caught anyone.

Enough of the "security" theater that accomplishes nothing but harass us, frequent travelers.

It's honestly pretty sad it's gotten this far.

Ridiculous rules for the sake of security... What would they find by touching my penis? To what do I owe this discomfort? What do they win by making me subject to these stupid rules?

Gotta love the innovations of Homeland (In)security. I dread every time I have to make a trip to the airport to travel somewhere.

so wrong

I don't fly regularly, but I believe very strongly that people I don't know shouldn't touch or see anything I don't want them to.

Lets all do our part to end this terrible injustice.

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a Temporary Safety, deserve neither". Ben Franklin
Wouldn't simply blocking off access between the passenger compartment and the cockpit prevent hijacking from being possible? It would probably cost a lot less in the long run as well.
I'd rather drive now than so much as remove my shoes for this futile, demeaning, criminal treatment, security "show" at the airport.

The use of demeaning and violent physical contact with passengers' genitals to increase the use of irradiating devices with no published safety data is appalling but not surprising. This new high in the trend of exchanging vital liberties for illusory gains in safety must be rejected immediately. Show us the outcomes that justify such measures; show us the gains that are worth surrendering our freedom.

Not to mention this is a breach of the 4th amendment, simply the amount of X-rays a frequent flyer is submitted to are not acceptable and can't be healthy regardless of what the 'experts' say. Pregnant ladies are told to stay away from X-rays so how could this possibly be a good thing in any way?

Stop trying to pump fear into the minds of Americans.

Stop these ridiculous intrusive body searches and start getting serious about hunting down terrorists abroad. I'm sick of my country playing defense and losing all of its liberties!

As a professional airline captain I find these procedures un-American and do not see the TSA improving safety aboard my aircraft. Security has to start before the terrorist reach the airport!

I will never fly with the intrusive, unnecessary, and immoral security measures in place.

I will not allow my family to fly should an attempt be made to apply either of the mentioned tactics. I will make other arrangements and inform the airlines of why I canceling my current and future travel plans.

Fear is not acceptable.

This is Illegal search and seizure.

I have a metal implant in my hip and have been subjected to those new invasive pat downs and gropings.....just horrible. I always tell the TSA agent before going through the detector that I will set it off as I have a metal implant, they don't listen, wave me through and then when I set it off body block me, bark at me to stay where I am and yell for female assistance. I know I am not the 1st traveler to have metal in my body.....whay do they make such a scene, make me feel like a criminal when I already told them that I will set the detector off and why.....and yes, needed a cigarette after the last 2 gropings....and by a minion representing the governement...scary.

These unreasonable, ineffective and intrusive searches are a disgrace to everything America used to stand for.

This is outrageous. Is this really the best you can come up with?? Don't you think a terrorist would simply hide a weapon/device in their rectum/vagina? This is completely ludicrous..at what point have the terrorists won? I would rather die of a rare terrorist attack than to live as a constant suspect.

We cannot live our lives based on fear and we should not allow the government to treat us all like criminals. I will not fly until security checks become reasonable.

Wher is the freedom that I spent years in the military to protect?

I understand a need for safety, but this is blatant abuse of power. I wish to Fly With Dignity, not with a violation of my groin.

This is an invasion of our privacy and degrades us as human beings.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

fuck the police

Strip searching everyone only to make terrorists cache explosives internally? That's not just un-American, it's stupid.

This is completely unconstitutional, a theoretical safety increase is not worth our rights and freedoms. I'm veteran and I'm ashamed to have served a nation that would justify actions as such!

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

These new "security" measures along with other methods employed since 9/11 have time and time again been demonstrated to be infective at making air travel safer while repeatedly violated basic constitutional rights. Such practices cannot be allowed to continue.

As stated in a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Yesterday prior to boarding my flight, I was physically assaulted while submitting to a pat down, I was groped in a very private place in a public area in full view of several children and their parents. At the time, I was silent, but from now on, my recording device will be on and I WILL Not Submit!

ZERO is the amount of Terrorists or their plots that the TSA has caught.

100% is the amount of travelers you abuse in the name of safety.

VIE on you TSA..

The final step before forcing us to fly naked.

Our founding father knew what was ahead for this great nation.
"He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security." Benjamin Franklin

I am so mad about all of this. What will it take to stop it? Someone in a comment asked "where are all the lawyers?" Well? They seem to be able to follow every ambulance, what about this?!

Three cheers for those working to defeat the scanners, friskings and other violations of our Constitutional rights. In time, the people will prevail!

I will not be flying until I these invasive, humiliating and disgusting policies are rescinded. I have no problem taking the extra time to drive or ride a train.

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security. I won't fly until you take the power away from your goon squad TSA.

I should not be required to make a decision between seeing my family for Christmas and avoiding sexual harassment.

They should reserve this kind of advanced screening for non-citizens. US citizens have rights that should not be tromped on for percieved security.

Stop the illegal scans and searches of passengers' bodies.

The TSA has over-reached and must be stopped! We value our liberties MORE than our lives!!!

I will fly only when I am no longer treated like a criminal because i have decided to fly.

I'm not flying if I'm getting groped.

Dear TSA, Get ready for lawsuits. I just made a large donation to the ACLU.

Stop violating my 4th Amendment Rights. You have no right to search me without probable cause.

I don't live in the USA but I am traveling to Orlando this summer. This, I believe is an extreme invasion of privacy and I think human rights activists should be all over this.

Use of these scanners and pat downs is in direct violation of our 4th amendment right to protection from unwarranted searches.

This is sick and a violation if privacy, where are the human activists?

Many things in life are risky. The risk from terrorists does not justify these invasive searches - indeed they are a victory for the terrorists and an abrogation of the Bill of Rights

Humiliation + Subjugation = Tyrannical Control. Ask any Gitmo prison guard. I will not fly and others need to refuse, as well.

Pilot and military veteran. Completely aghast and now driving a car or taking a train for my travel needs.

Sick of feeling like a criminal because I purchased a plane ticket.

I fully support security in the air; however, these privacy violations are not the way to achieve that.

Please, there has to be another way to get the job done.

Invasion of privacy is not a substitute for incompetency.

Cavity searches and "anatomically correct" scanners are am abomination and an affront to common decency. I refuse to fly until the TSA is stopped!

Will only fly in an emergency, or at a private airport.

Unfortunately I already have a ticket to fly in December, but following that, unless these unacceptable practices are stopped, I plan to fly only when absolutely necessary.

Please prevent this massive sexual assault.

I will opt-out of the body scanner on Nov 24th, and I will never fly again unless this insanity ceases!

I can't believe what is happening to this country. We need to continue to fight to regain our independence!

This policy is perverse and appalling. I will only be traveling on the ground until it is changed.

I refuse to fly until TSA starts granting me my rights as American

I oppose the reckless expansion of government that exists in the form of the TSA and the "department" of homeland security.

this is an invasion of privacy like I have never seen. absolutely insane that the TSA can get away with this.

www.tsa.gov leave comments under their contact page as well. I did.

I've spent years in the Middle East defending Freedom, only to come home and see my own government and it's agencies instituting treasonous searches and policies. I'm appalled, disgusted, and betrayed. TSA should be disbanded entirely.

The government will continue to impede our liberties for exactly as long as we continue to let them. Stand up for your rights!

STAND!

I have no choice but to fly for my job, so I will opt out of the AIT scanners. However, the open hand and fingers enhanced pat-down is utterly humiliating and degrading. Every single TSA Agent should be ashamed of themselves for participating in this violation.

In addition, leading and reputable biophysicists have found flaws in the government's own safety analysis of the backscatter (Comptom) X-ray machines. Claims of safety are thus inaccurate if not outright lies.

I am with you, and I'm fed up with this bull sh*t! Let the resistance begin!

What ever happened to the 4th amendment?

"Don't touch my junk!"

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

-Benjamin Franklin

Enough already! This is the last straw!

This has to stop: the terrorists continue to win with every scan and grope.

Respect the 4th amendment.

And TSA does this to children also.

I will not fly until the scanners are gone and the feel-ups are ceased.

I feel this is the most patriotic petition I've ever signed.

I didn't stop flying because of terrorism. I stopped flying because of the TSA.

I will never submit to such a procedure.

Read Bruce Schneier

Is the TSA supposed to protect the flying public from terrorists or to protect the non-flying public from the flying public?

This is unconstitutional and ineffective.

9/11 did not give the Government the right to take away a person's rights, regardless of what the Government might think. And as we are now seeing a shift towards the use mail-bombs, are such over-reaching security measures still needed?

I will not fly if the only way to get on the flight is to submit to a high-tech strip search, or sexual molestation.

I WILL NOT FLY TILL YOU STOP THE NAKED SCANNERS AND/OR GROPING!

When did it become okay to treat people as if they are guilty before they are proven innocent? And since when did our government subsidize sexual assault in the name of security?

This is another liberty being pushed to the side.

The "enhanced pat downs" are humiliating, offensive and intrusive enough for someone who isn't a sexual assault survivor. They are cruel and damaging, to say the least, to someone who is.

This is just one of the ways that my civil liberties have been infringed upon by the US Government recently.

I vaguely recall that one of the amendments to the constitution is supposed to protect us from things like this... 4th?

Odds of a terrorist attack: less than 1 in 1,500,000. There are lotteries that have better odds... Please use some common sense and stop pretending to protect us against something that is so slight a risk to be laughable.

Considering how many threats have been mitigated as a direct result of this increased "security", I cannot endorse its use. It is a violation of our rights and will not be tolerated.

When I fly with family I don't want anyone to look at my son naked, or touch his genitals.

These genital searches and naked scanners do not increase security. All they do is deter people from flying. Also, TSA has not stopped a single terrorist in 10 years.

Deadly terrorists existed long before 9/11... we were just more calm about it.

It's tough to draw the line between security and invasion of privacy, but touching my genitals and porno x ray machines are a good place to start!

I have been shocked by the ways airport security has become invasive and dehumanizing over the last nine years. Many of the changes to airport screening have not materially improved airport security; they certainly have not decreased the society-wide risk of terrorism. Instead, they have aggravated, humiliated, and worst of all dehumanized us. We risk becoming a society which expects nothing other than waiting in lines, presenting our papers, and being brutally searched for contraband. This is America, and it is long past time to remember the Constitution that originally defined what that means.

This is a clear and blatant violation of a person's rights, demeaning, and incredibly triggering to victims of sexual abuse. These procedures are not going to secure flights, but rather violate the privacy and rights of American citizens.

Stop this abuse now... before it becomes accepted by the masses!!!

I believe that the federal government is over stepping its boundaries. It does as it pleases with no morals and no respect for the American people. There once was a document called the BILL OF RIGHTS.

I will not fly until the naked body scanners and the enhanced pat downs are stopped; I will tell my family and friends not to fly as well

If you opt out and feel sexually harassed by the enhanced pat down, make sure to tell the TSA agent; the TSA has sexual harassment guidelines concerning customers.

This is ridiculous, surely there is a better option that can save people emberassment and not cause such an uproar. You should be ashamed of yourself: Allowing terrorists to shape our country is out of line. Don't you see they are winning by forcing us to place these initiatives in place? I will not be flying anytime in the future, not so long as these standards are in place. You have no right to assign people to grope me, my family, friends, or any of my loved ones. You will not have that luxury of groping me, I don't care what the reason is. You will not subject me to xray scans either. I have worked in a clinic doing xrays before, I am aware of the dangers of xray waves. You think you have the right to decide what is in the public's best interest? I am done with this, if I continue I will start to become irrational and start using harsh language. Have a nice day "big sis".

You force us to waive our rights because you know we HAVE to fly. We now have "no choice" choices. Complaints to the TSA about their horrible, rude, humiliating treatment are ignored or ridiculed. Each time i fly, some TSA goon yells at me or another citizen for not obeying some command fast enough, sitting on the wrong chair, asking an innocent question, having the nerve to be old or sick, etc. How long will we stand for this?

We should not have to give up our rights to be able to travel.

I refuse to fly until this bullSHIT is done with. I'd rather walk to LAX than ever fly again.

If it wasn't the government that was doing these things, they would be illegal.

Do not treat us like criminals.

I have stopped flying within the US until these disgusting policies are ended.The TSA is a bunch of sex perverts.

I used to fly on commercial planes a few years back. Now our company only uses private jets for business travel. Our problem seems to be the private fight attendants grabbing our 'junk'.

The utter, humiliating behavior of the TSA must stop. The stats say airplanes are more safe than automobiles and trains. Airplanes have stayed safer WITHOUT these new invasive procedures.

This is nothing short of governmental tyrannny.

Abolish the TSA, and get Janet Napolitano out of the DHS.

I will not fly until common sense is restored.

Electronic strip-search or random groping? If the bad guys get as close as the checkpoint WE'RE ALREADY HOSED! More LE work to catch the vermin in their spider-holes and less molesting of passengers, please.

As others have said, I will not be flying while these invasive, unethical and unconstitutional searches are in place.

I quit flying when I was forced to remove my belt and shoes in order to catch my flight. I refuse to be treated as a criminal without just cause. The TSA is a fraud and anyone who submits themselves to their out-of-control, so-called "security measures" is a part of the problem.

The whole process is directed at a large number of incompetents keeping their jobs from Janet Napolitano down to the lowest groper.

Will no fly until this ends.

There HAS to be an alternative

The TSA is a outrageous waste of my tax money. Somewhere, Bin Laden is laughing.

I don't understand why our personal freedoms have to be violated just to travel. I do not have to do give up these freedoms in any other mode of transportation, so why should I give them up to fly?

The line has been crossed. At some point we have to stand up and say enough!

There is no good reason to enforce ridiculous security theater. It's wasteful and disrecpectful.

The scanners are the straw that broke the camel's back. I am too old to go through the TSA-stress and have to cut down on flying.

I will not fly with my family until the invasive pat down procedures for opt-out's stop.

Call your congressman and senator today. The answer to this abuse of your rights is not to give up your freedom to travel, but rather, to regain control of this government gone wild.

This is about the government asserting more control over the American public. It has nothing to do with protecting us from terrorist threats.

I will not fly on US arilines until reasonable non-invasive security procedures are put in place. I fly over 15 flights a year and we all need to stand up and get in the opt out line and shut the airlines down as TSA is out of control.

Abolish the TSA.

This civil rights incursion is more evidence that the enemies of the US are winning. Our government violates our own Constitution in the name of security.

Nobody has the right to touch me without my permission. This is an outrage.

I will be driving until my privacy is restored.

This is sexual assault, plain and simple. I will not fly again until I can do so without giving up my right not to be assaulted.

Thanks to the TSA, I now have now had to make the choice to drive my family 1600 miles for the holidays rather than take a 3 hour flight to avoid molestation, even though the flight, without any security screening, would still be safer than driving.

As a survivor of sexual assault, I don't believe I should have to choose between the threat of sexual harassment and the threat of sexual assault. I cannot bring myself to fly under these conditions, despite the fact that I will not be able to see my family.

This is a farce. This only gives the illusion that we are safe when we fly. Quite wasting money and resources on this facade and do something that will really help the security of this country and close the borders!

I will not be sexually assaulted by the people meant to protect me.

Time to boost the GA industry and fly ourselves hassle free!

Bring back the Constitution of The United States!

As a rape survivor the last thing I want to happen before going on vactaion is to get triggered.

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

The TSA has gone too far in the name of 'safety'. I refuse to be sexually violated by a scanner or a pat down. I am an upstanding citizen that will not be treated like a criminal. I definitely will NOT fly until this issue is resolved.

"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."

Will not fly until the incompetents running this side-show are replaced by an agency with multiple layers of oversight to prevent abuses.

Please be reminded that government exists to serve the needs of the people and not the reverse.

Stop violating my rights and my Constitution.

Please stop this harrassment.

I will not subject my daughter to this.

It should be "power to the people", not "ridiculous power to a few select people."

I'm disgusted by the new TSA regulations, this is WAY too intrusive!

This policy is not Constitutional. The Fourth 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."

No scanners, no pat downs!

I should be stripped by a machine with possible ill effects on my health, or felt up by a stranger? No Way.

This is outrageous. I will not let anyone but my husband and my doctor see my naked body as a free woman. Is this America? Or is this Orwell 1984?!?

I refuse to be subjected to this on the grounds of mystified "safety" concerns.

I made it to adulthood without being molested. So why would I pay the airlines to be groped by a lowpaid governemt employee?

The TSA has not caught even 1 terrorist in its almost 10 years of existence. The only line of defense we have had with the "shoe bomber" and "underwear bomber" were the passengers on the planes who took action.

Act now to preserve what little rights we have left. Not just for us, but for future generations.

I do not consent to the TSA's agenda of "security theater as replacement for actual security." Ban the porn machine.

I have rights, whether you choose to believe it or not.

It's important to also know the TSA position on this matter regarding the 4th amendment. Search for "amendment" on this page: http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/optout/spp_faqs.shtm

Sexual assault in airports part of a 'normal' procedure? Seriously, USA, take a better look. This is a major violation of my personal rights.

I will not fly until these are gone.

The government should not be able to do in public to me what my girlfriend would be fined for doing to me in public. Namely, feeling me up.

If they touch my junk they should be arrested

no way am i gonig into an airport

I can not imagine subjecting my wife and two young children to this sexual assault. We will be driving until this is changed.

In addition to the concerns detailed in this petition, my experience with airports using this device is that it is absurdly slow, and results in long, slow-moving lines where there wouldn't ordinarily be.

How does humiliation make us safer?

Clearly their methods are not working if terrorists are still getting through!

I am a US expat living in Australia since 1996. My parents, who remain living in the USA, are elderly- and I expect to have to visit them sometime in the near future. I haven't been on an international flight since 1999. I cannot conceive of having to choose between seeing my parents one last time and being either sexually assaulted, photographed naked and/or exposed to ionising radiation by backscatter body scanners. Being an airline passenger is NOT probable cause for invasive searches. I'll happily walk through a metal detector but I will NOT tolerate anything more invasive. Stop this madness NOW.

Employing people who know how to think like terrorists, or checking the contents of every shipped box or piece of luggage, yes. This? This is disgustingly invasive, not to mention insultingly inefficient.

I will not fly until these machines are gone. Even more, I will not fly until our proper rights have been restored.

Driving is more enjoyable anyways.

The scanners are not proven safe and would not have caught the underwear bomber. The patdowns are little more that sexual assault. THESE PRACTICES NEED TO END.

Cancer has been linked to excessive exposure to Xrays it is unconscionable to force people to pass through these scanners.

I too refuse to submit to unreasonable searches of my person. The airlines will not see so much as a penny from me until this policy is rescinded. I'm willing to drive, take trains, ride buses, motorcycles, bicycles or walk as necessary for my travel requirements. Americans, stand up for your rights, quit being such quivering sheep!

I am more than happy to go through metal detector or have a "light" pat down. But I will not allow ANY government branch or official (unless it is a licensed medical physician) to view my body or feel my genitals in any form. In any other sense this would be considered Sexual Assault and I will not be subjected to such so help me god. I am not a prisoner nor will I be treated as one. Israel doesn't need these machines in their international airport, and they have the best security on earth. TSA agents need to be better trained.

Those who trade liberty for security... I'd prefer liberty.

TSA is doing this with the full cooperation of the airlines. Make the airlines suffer, by boycotting them, and they will make TSA stop!

As a young woman I will NOT allow anyone of any "authority" to give me a full body "pat down" just to visit my family, nor will I allow any machine to take an x-ray picture which will be kept on file. My body belongs to me, not the government!!

I will not fly until these scanners are removed and the searches are halted. Invest in the sniffer machines. They actually work.

I am not willing to sacrifice my personal freedom for a system that hasn't done one thing to make travel safer.

I am a pilot, and this offends me on behalf of everyone who flies.

Enough is enough.

The only way I will go through one of these scanners is if I am provided with the full name and home address of the TSO manning the scanner screen, the full name and home address of that TSO's immediate supervisor, and a slightly blurry full-length nude photo of both of them. There will of course be no guarantee they won't be posted publicly. They have no business making demands on me that they wouldn't be willing to comply with.

Fuck you TSA. You've made flying unbearable.

This is a total invasion of our privacy. This entirely makes me reconsider flying entirely until this is no longer an option.

I will not submit to unreasonable searches - period.

Please end the pointless security theater. Everyone invloved knows its a waste of time, money and resources.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

We need our rights back. Choice to fly should not equal choice to be humiliated or debased.

1)The moratorium should also include Millimeter Wave Technology scanners.
2)What about a one-day "NO FLY" Protest, where the goal is for as many people as possible not to fly on a specific date?

this procedure is disgraceful.....

I will not fly again until these unconstitutional acts cease. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, groped, irradiated, or numbered. I am a person. My life is my own.

Either let me freely walk naked into an airport or stop the scans.

I will NOT be flying until these machines and pat downs are no longer part of the process. Either option is an unreasonable search by an agency of the government.

I have cancelled my travel plans for Thanksgiving and until I know I can fly without my privacy being violated, I will not fly.

I will not be flying until these policies are revoked. What the TSA is doing is beyond horrible.

This over obsession about safety has totally discouraged me from flying ever again. I appreciate security, but this is going too far!

What would they do if everyone opted out?

Groping is awful. But cancer is much much worse.

This security theater must end.

I am not guilty until proven innocent. I will not fly until these measures are repealed.

I repeat again what S. Greathouse quoted "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - President George Washington

These new scanners do little to enhance security and will be ineffective at stopping those determined to cause harm.

They subject all who fly to a gross violation of privacy, an unreasonable, invasive search and unknown health effects over the long-term.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Ben Franklin.

Although in this case, it is merely the illusion of safety.

stop wasting our tax money and do something right! Plain stupid!

Stop violating our dignity! We are upstanding citizens flying for our jobs, and to see our families-these unreasonable searches do not deter real terrorists, they violate US!

And please stop 'randomly' selecting my Dutch husband to be searched. If he wanted to blow up a plane I'm sure he'd plant the bomb on his American wife who isn't getting extra screening.. DUH?

A family with small children visiting other family is hardly a threat ok?

I do not want to experience higher levels of radiation, or the shame and embarrassment of being groped by a stranger. Considering how triggering that feeling can be of survivors of sexual assault, I cannot believe that this is even being considered. I can't imagine TSA employees really want to assault several hundred people a day, either. Dignity is stripped from everyone with these measures in place.

Buying an airline ticket does not mean you give up your 4th Amendment rights. I hope everyone opts out.

Give us back out rights. If this is what we demand, how can a government by the people take them away?

How has this country gone so far off the deep end that now the following scene from Airplane II: The Sequel is REALITY now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5zuhjl5sF4

All other valid arguments aside - we've just lost. Is it possible for 310,713,976 people to all *facepalm* at the same time?

The world is laughing at us!

The implementation of the backscatter x-ray machines and enhanced pat-downs is completely outrageous. It breaks the heart to see the land of the free being subjected to a government agency driven by fear.

Please, on behalf of the nation, and as a therapist who works to help heal people who have been sexually molested, stop the pat downs and excessive X-ray machine use and LEARN FROM THE COUNTRY OF ISRAEL. Profile and question. Keep security high and still protect our privacy!

It is easy for a person that does not have to abide by these restrictions to stand by them. If you feel they are necessary please start to profile, airlines have done it for years, poeple and you will see the same results.

Never thought U.S. "security" would be more invasive than that of China. "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin)

I'm not against security but this is not the best, or only, solution. For instance, I'd be more than happy to change out of my "street" clothes to wear TSA approved flying attire if that were such an option.

Hey TSA, how many terrorists have you caught at your security checkpoints?

‎Consider the words of Benjamin Franklin, "Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither."

The backscatter x-ray, "pat downs", and strip searches are a gross violation of our 4th amendment rights.

Blatantly unconstitutional and just plain inhumane.

This is just another way that the federal government stomps on our rights and liberties for the supposed "War on Terror"

Stop sexually assaulting me while exercising my RIGHT to travel!

this is the TSA overstepping their boundaries... where does it end? I wouldn't be as upset if this was actually the right kind of technology for finding the kind of weapons/devices we are currently dealing with, but it's not.

Fewer do-nothing theatrics, please. I'd like to not be assaulted if I ever choose to fly.

I agree that these issues violate my constitutional rights.

Screw TSA

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin

I will never get another airplane until these invasive security measures are rescinded.

If the airlines won't put a stop to the molestation of their customers, the can all go bankrupt, as far as I'm concerned. I'll drive, thank you very much.

We are tired of our privacy and personal rights being taken away !!!
The TSA has gone to far, we refuse to fly until things change !!!
The TSA is not finding the persons they need to find, they are just humiliating and embarrass the average person.

I wouldn't want this done to my mother or my wife or my niece and nephew so it shouldn't be done to anyone.

These measures are completely invasive and unnecessary. I'm sure given the choice, a vast majority of passengers would rather take the risk than be subjected to this.

You know that this is not right.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

-Benjamin Franklin

if such a blatant invasion of privacy is allowed, this certainly sets a very dangerous precedent going into the future.
Envision a future where everyone is required to go through these x-ray machines before entering an Federal building or major transit system of any kind.

This behavior is NOT acceptable. Our government is supposed to work for us, let's remind them of that.

I hate to travel because of the TSA.

Ben Franklin would be ashamed of this country

www.InfoWars.com and www.WeWontFly.com and www.AbortionNo.org

the only thing exceedingly invasive TSA procedures are able to stop is my ability to arrive at the gate on time.

I do not want to have to feel sexually harassed because I want to travel home to DC to see my family. I'm not flying until something is done about this.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

I will not subject myself to an irrational, unconstitutional, and disgusting display of fearmongering. I do not have to fly. It is a luxury. I will do without it as long as these appalling measures are in place.

This is illegal and must stop.

I will never allow myself to be subjected to one of these searches.

These searches are clearly over the "reasonable" line.

This is disgusting. I have basically stopped flying. The airline industry should be lobbying against it.

Terrorists have already won. They're laughing at the abuse we put up with in our daily lives because of them.

I believe recent TSA screening policies violate privacy, do little to prevent terrorism, and cost our society dollars, time, and liberty.

Will no longer fly until the scanners are removed.

Myself and family will not be flying this holiday season or any other until these procedures are discontinued.

We all need to petition our recently elected {or re-elected} politicians and government officials to stop this nonsense. Secure the cockpits with double steel doors that cannot be opened, and the hijacking issue is solved. Metal detectors and non-genital external pat-downs of occasional passengers is as far as TSA should ever go. Remember we pay them! We all need to fight back for our rights!!!! Plus, terrorists aren't likely to use aircraft as a weapon again anyway, unfortunately I'm sure they will find something else.

I will not fly until this disgusting invasion of privacy is dismissed.

The fact that I fly the plane and have been through a background check to get this job isn't enough for me not to have to be treated to additional radiation besides that I encounter at 35 000 feet. I think it is ridiculous that pilots should have to go through this machine or go through the pat down if you opt out. We are on duty flying the plane.

I'm outraged.

TSA employees have talked about the procedures of the enhanced patdown as being designed to coerce most people into walking into the AIT scanners. (Read Jeffrey Goldberg's story "For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance" in the Atlantic, for example.) AIT and the patdown are both invasive and ineffective. Is the TSA trying to bankrupt the airline industry? Don't they realize that when people stop flying, they'll have no one left to search?

My family and I will not be flying until this policy is revoked.

I am against sanctioned molestation.

will opt out of xray..will not be scared down by groping hands

At this point the government has overstepped its boundaries to the point of sexual molestation while trying to fly is perfectly okay in fact its the LAW now. We have to come together to fight this Big Government to make them realize that we the people will not tolerate this anymore. Government to a degree is great. When they start overstepping basic civil liberties we have to stand up and firmly state that we will not stand for this!

I refuse to choose between dangerous radiation and sexual assault just to board a fly.

STOP

I shouldn't have to choose what form my sexual assault comes in if I want to fly. Parents shouldn't have to choose it for their children either. Ban this invasive, immoral procedure.

When will we stop being sheep and stand up to this tyranny? The line is drawn here!

Why are you asking for my age? WTF?????????????????????????

I teach my daughter not to let anyone touch her body without her permission. Really, Uncle Sam? Must I amend this to include any holier-than-thou jerk in an airport with a superiority complex?

I want the constitution to be respected.

I will no longer fly commercial airlines domestically and will fly non-U.S.A. flagged carriers for my overseas travels.

TSA provides the illusion of security... nothing more.

My choosing to travel by air is not my implicit consent to be molested.

Please stop eroding our 4th amendment rights. They're rights for a reason, you shouldn't be allowed to just arbitrarily decide to take them away.

Thank you for this

There are no words for how depraved and unnecessary these machines are. The TSA has truly become the iconic despised police unit of our time: unaccountable, brutal, stupid.

I understand we need to protect our security, but I'm fairly certain that bomb sniffing dog's cost less and produce better results then these new screening methods

II do not feel safe, I feel insulted and violated. I am not a threat to anyone and resent being treated like a suspect. STOP this nonsense! Americans deserve better.

I will not submit my 16 month old child to un-needed radiation or groping from a government agent for a false sense of security for others...

It's bad enough passengers are subjected to this, but crew members are also now molested on there way to work!

Hey. We dirty old men can save the country a lot of money. We'll do it for nothing!

Respect the 4th amendment.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I will not fly until the sexual assault is stopped!!!

I am utterly outraged about the use of full body scanners.
As a frequent flier I am being forced to either pose for naked pictures and incur dangerous radiation several times a month or be sexually assaulted if I want to board an aircraft to do my job.
If I take my wife and kids on vacation I have to let some person off the street view and keep pornographic pictures of them or consent to have them molested.
I doubt that any politician or TSA higher up or any airline exec would put themselves, their wives or their children through this utterly violating process.

I WILL BE FLYING AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE AS LONG AS THIS GOES ON.
..and will consider filing a criminal complaint against any TSA employee who gropes or otherwise sexually molests or assaults myself or my family.

My children and I will not be flying into any airports that utilize these machines. We will resort to alternative and more private methods of transportation if necessary to enjoy what the world has to offer us.

Simply outrageous this practice. And are they scanning our motor vehicles too when entering the USA from Canada?

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

The rights of the few should never be trumped by the security of the many.

Please refrain from "protecting" my rights by removing them.

I am all for security, but this is an invasion of privacy and I will not see my daughter, or other modest women subjected to this kind of violation. You impede on religious conviction and general sense of privacy that many hold dear as Americans.

Molesting children should not be part of a job description.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.-Benjamin Franklin

I'm flying, not visiting the state prison. And, by the way, I've been flying for OVER 50 YEARS - BEFORE THERE WERE JETS. If you, the government, don't know who the long time and regular fliers are, it is the government's fault. Don't burden me with your incompetence.

I will not go through one of these scanner for health and privacy reasons.

The machines also do not make us any safer - we're succumbing to security theatre instead of doing real security work. Rafi Sela, the president of AR Challenges, a global transportation security consultancy that has worked with the RCMP, the U.S. Navy Seals and airports around the world, on Israeli security:

"'First, it's fast — there's almost no line. That's because they're not looking for liquids, they're not looking at your shoes. They're not looking for everything they look for in North America. They just look at you,' said Sela. 'Even today with the heightened security in North America, they will check your items to death. But they will never look at you, at how you behave. They will never look into your eyes and that's how you figure out the bad guys from the good guys.'" That's the process — six layers, four hard, two soft. The goal at Ben-Gurion is to move fliers from the parking lot to the airport lounge in a maximum of 25 minutes."

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelification-high-security-little-bother

The TSA treats us like prisoners. I love visiting the US, but now I hate traveling in it. Please restore civility to your airports.

My life isn't worth living when I've compromised what I believe in. This isn't what our country was founded on. Don't pretend that human life is sacred when we send men and women in to pointless wars and use them as disposable pawns. It's not about safety. No one can ever be completely safe. It's about taking away people's civil rights and freedom.

The person in front of me kept making the metal detector go off and so I was swept toward the X-ray machine. Since I wasn't really interested in a stranger seeing me naked I opted out and was then subject to a full grope. I requested a specific TSA agent I had been talking to and felt comfortable with and was denied. I really wish I hadn't agreed to it. I feel violated now. How is this legal and going unquestioned?

Please give us the choice to die with liberty, than live with this tyranny.

These machines also are creating child porn.

The TSA is a bunch of thug perverts and sexual predators ! You're using my tax money for this outrage ? !

In particular, it is the "lack of knowledge" that concerns me— the possibility of long-term ill effects.

I have a flight booked in december. This makes me really nervous.

I will refuse to fly again except under the most urgent circumstances until these illegal and infernal searches are ceased.

This sort of "security" at the cost of passenger's mental security is uncalled for. I won't be flying until it's scrapped.

Will not fly until these scanners are removed from use and strip searches are completely halted.

I'm not going to fly.

From reading the news of late it is hard to tell that we live in a country that used to be free. I would rather chance death in a "terrorist" attack than have my liberties stripped away and live in fear.

We should not let the bad action of one person turn us all into suspects. Security is important but so is dignity. These policies are important and they set a precedent of how we would be treated in other realms of society.

Unfathomable.

I will do whatever I can to avoid flying until these machines are removed.

It is imperative that we draw the line here, or cavity searches are next.

This is completely outrageous. Where have our liberties gone?

It is unethical and unacceptable for a government agency to behave in such a grossly invasive manner. National security is important, yes, but so is my personal security, and I refuse to submit to an act that is against the Constitution of the United States of America whether it is attempted by an agency associated with the government or not. Please return to a logical system of checks and balances instead of violating my body and my freedoms.

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

This has just gotten so ridiculous, these procedures aren't making us safer and are obscene.

Why have you let the terrorists win? The terrorists have successfully destroyed air travel in the US. We are better than these obvious violations of privacy and the US Constitution.

Any agents of the state who touch me will be charged with assaulting a disabled veteran (a federal offense). Any agents of the state who touch my wife or child will be assaulted by me, and then charged.

I've been traveling at least 2-4 times a month for the past 12 years. The last 5 years I've traveled the same flights & route twice a month. Yet I'm still treated like a criminal at EVERY flight. If you're going to implement this gross invasion of privacy, at least operate some kind of CLEAR initiative for those of us who have to go through it every week.

This security theater is not helping anyone.

No flying until this is done away with. If that means I never fly again, I'll live. Not when the skies are so darn unfriendly.

I find it absolutely deplorable that the government would suggest that either the naked pictures of myself and my child or patting us down is anything short of molestation and a gross violation of our rights.

Stop this ridiculous invasion of our privacy.

There is NO way that I'm going to pay for an airline ticket in order to be treated like a criminal. FORGET it! The only people happy about this are the ones making $$$ from the scanners.

These policies were put in place on the possibility that they might save American lives. The fact is that thousands of American service men and women have already died protecting the rights that the TSA has taken from us. Not only is the total disregard for our human rights unacceptable, but so to is the disregard for the sacrifices made by the members of our military.

Ben Franklin was right!

Risking our health is wrong... not matter what your experts say. Also, that pat down borders on actual sexual assualt in my opinion. The American people ask you to do what you MUST know in your heart is right. A soldier said something very poignant to me. He said, everytime people give up their RIGHTS, it's a slap in the face to every soldier that has sacrificed to defend them! I couldn't agree more.

I want my America back and you are taking us further away from that goal!

Each year I fly more than 100,000 miles. Repeated X-rays (full body scans) can serve no logical purpose. I pose no threat to anyone yet I am treated as a criminal each time I choose to fly somewhere. What has become of our rights and our government?

Enough is enough. If this doesn't stop, expect the people to rise up and reclaim their rights through any means necessary. You are NOT deterring terrorists by stealing away every last shred of privacy.

The terrorists have won. The TSA now holds me hostage to its fears, whether I choose to fear or not. Isn't that exactly what the terrorists want? I am ashamed of my country for the first time in my life.

This goes against the will of the people you are trying to protect.

Our family of 5 will not be flying until this ridiculous screening is put to an end. At what point did I agree to give up my rights when I choose flying as a mode of transportation across the country? I will NOT subject myself or my young children to a potentially hazardous screening machine OR to being groped by strangers in order to fly.
Malo Periculosam Libertatem Quam Quietum Servitium ("I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery").

I want secure air as well. Follow Israeli procedures, not Hugh Heffner's procedures!

I will drive 3,000 miles rather than allow anyone to photograph my children naked or feel them up.

I urge you to honor the request of We the People, for whom you work. We Will stand together against this violation. Thankyou for your attention to this imperative issue of personal rights and freedoms.

As a commercial airline pilot, I must say the TSA is completely out of control and must be stopped before our civil liberties are lost permanently.

This is terrifying to me. It needs to be removed.

"Those that would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither." Ben Franklin

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The terrorists and those that wish us harm have won when the TSA and the powers that be decide to fight the war on terror by waging an assault on the American people by stripping them of their rights.

Our founding fathers are surely turning in their graves.

Very sad to say the least.

I need to fly with my kids to see my family. However, if I have to choose which indignity to subject my kids to, I will choose neither and accept the consequences.

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

I am a Mom of two military sons, both stationed on the East Coast, who travels frequently from Colorado to visit them. Unfortunately, I am now forced to seriously reconsider my routine trips to Camp Lejeune and Oceans NAS, due to the thoroughly degrading and unconstitutional new security procedures which have been implemented by TSA.

Will not fly until these policies are revised.

I will not be molested, nor allow my family to be molested or exposed to unnecessary radiation by anyone. Has my government forgotten that I have lent them my authority in a sacred trust which is all too often violated?

The TSA's new procedures are unreasonable.

I believe that the TSA will go down in US history as the biggest waste of taxpayer dollars in history. And that's really saying something since our government has been pretty wasteful.

they haven't caught any of the 911 terrorists yet. let's throw money where it's really needed

Its an invasion of privacy, and health hazard. Someone please sue the TSA for 4th amendment infringement.

We're not even 100% sure that the radiation from the backscatter scanners are safe for our bodies and yet we are being subjected to something potentially hazardous. We do not deserve to be treated like animals in order to fly.

I am canceling my flight to Florida in February and instead driving the 2200 mile round trip for a planned vacation. I encourage everyone else to do the same until these measures change.

The new scanners and the "optional" crotch-grabbing procedure are a humiliating invasion of privacy for every air traveler. The TSA feels the only way to protect the United States is to punish its citizens by subjecting them to these procedures. What will they have us do next? Walk naked from the ticket counter to the jet way? I agree we need security, but bombarding us with radiation or feeling up every traveler is only going to piss off the very people you are trying to protect.

Treating everyone like a terrorist is WRONG!

Individual "pat-downs" are a violation of an individual's rights to safety. Many people are survivors of sexual violence and these "pat-downs" are triggering and can be emotionally damaging in the short- and long-term.

These new regulations are a gross violation of our privacy and freedom. Also they do not add any additional security measures or prevent possible terrorist actions from occurring.

Furthermore, this new imaging system, to be used on women and children leaves a lot of possibilites to be abused. Are the TSA screeners checked to see if they are Registered Sex Offenders?

Furthermore, I'd like to hear how the Airlines are going to respond to these scanners. Likely this will just deter people from flying altogether and hurt the travel industry, and push our economy further into a recession.

Me and 11 other people who were going to CES just after Christmas cancelled our flights. You will not see a dime until this madness stops.

I'm sick of this. The US is becoming everything we have stood against. The TSA's polices are ridiculous and don't make anyone safer. If you're trying to stop people at the gate, you've lost already.

I think it is wrong that we are asking people to be viewed naked thru X-ray and if we decide to not go thru a TSA agent gets to feel us up. How do we explain to our children that its not ok for an adult to touch us in private parts but its ok if they are at the airport?? And how do we know that the TSA Agent doesn't have a sexual offender background?

As a young woman, this feels invasive, unhealthy, irresponsible and it sure as hell doesn't make me feel any more secure. Please get rid of this highly offensive tactic. Find safer ways to screen passengers.

Families everywhere are scared to fly now. Not because of terrorists, but because of the TSA. These scanners and pat-downs must be stopped.

Enough is enough. There's safety and then there's abuse of power

I unfortunately was subjected to a hi resolution body scan before I know exactly how much the screeners were able to see. This is a disgusting invasion of privacy, and I will not submit to another scan.

Contents of emails sent to various senators for the upcoming Transportation Security Administration Oversight Hearing

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Dear Senator:

To quote one of our founding fathers, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin.

The situation with the TSA vs. the traveling public has become intolerable. The onerous, invasive and dangerous precedents being set today, all in the name of safety, will provide none such safety and deprives citizens of this nation their guaranteed rights under the fourth amendment.

The fact that these new backscatter machines are not considered safe by a host of experts yet are being deployed across the nation shows just how powerful lobbysits are in shaping public policy at the expense of our consititution and the citizens it is supposed to protect.

These machines have many names, but should ultimately just be called sex-ray since it shows a fairly accurate depiction of the subject's naked body. Although the TSA claims that no data is stored (read: imagery) our US Marshall Services has already claimed they have kept said data.

Ultimately, however, these machines offer nothing that a trained professional could not spot. If someone is so committed to blowing up a plane, they could defeat this machine by simply hiding the explosives in their anus, vagina or other body cavity. A trained security professional, using the proper interviewing techniques like our friends in Israel, would be able to spot the tell tale signs of a potential threat.

Furthermore, these new physical searches, for those that choose to opt-out of the backscatter machines, are tantamount to governmental sanctioned sexual assault. Are we now a government like Sudan that uses sexual assault and humiliation to enforce some msiguided doctrine in order to line the pockets of fat-cat lobbyists and their corporate patrons?

The biggest insult, however, to the American people is that these assaults are now appoved on children. What kind of message are we sending to our most vulnerable citizens when we claim, as a people, that as long as an adult is wearing a TSA badge it's OK for them to grope your genitals? How can we as a people accept this affront? Generations of parents before me have had "that" talk with our children on what is acceptable and unacceptable touching from strangers, yet here we are with a governmental-sanctioned child molestation.

As a husband and a parent you can be certain that I will never let my wife or child be subjected to such a clear and present violation of our rights afforded to us by our constitution. Until some reason returns to the travel industry I will no longer use air travel, which is quite a statement since I am in the destination tourism business.

I beg you to stand up as a voice of reason in this matter at the Senate Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security hearing on the Transportation Security Administration Oversight. I urge you to do what is right for the American people and stop these assaults on our freedoms and the very constitution.

best,
mg

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

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

I will absolutely not fly until these scans are halted and all detectors removed from airports immediately.

I pray I never have to see these scanners, and have to resort to a pat down where people might touch me in intimate locations... just so I can "protect my privacy" (by having it further impeded on?!)

The recent changes do very little to increase security. They simply violate the constitution, violate our privacy, and endanger our health.

REMOVE THE SCANNERS!

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

I will not subject my family to naked scans.

I will not sacrifice personal rights for the illusion of safety.

If Israel doesn't need it, neither do we. TSA will not touch my kids, or see beneath their clothing.

I think we need to look to Israel for how they run security... They do a much better job than we do!

I will not be flying again until our rights are routinely violated all in the name of a false sense of security.

The new TSA regime has been a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11 and does nothing to make anyone safer.

When flying with my children, I now have a choice between subjecting them to radiation or having them molested by a stranger. Ridiculous.

Don't treat me like a criminal when you're the ones who belong in prison.

Legalizing and requiring sexual assault is essentially what you are doing to all of those who have been traumatized in the past! You are perpetuating their victimization and it is appalling.

I will not raise my children to fear their government more than terrorists.

As a US Sailor I find it deplorable that my sacrifices for the freedom and protection of the American people are so easily thwarted- by our own agencies. I hope I am asked to be scanned when I fly in my uniform- I look forward to defending myself.

Buying train tickets instead of plane tickets.

Security theater, plain and simple. The simple act of purchasing an airline ticket to exercise my rights of freedom of movement should never imply consent to the forfeiture of my 4th Amendment rights. Ever.

These searches are obscene, help no one, and have never caught a terrorist. Shameful.

The attitude of the TSA top to bottom shows how the terrorist have already won.

Stop, thanks.

What happens when some idiot sticks a bomb inside their rear? Cavity searches for all?

It's time to reduce the level of paranoia. Think smarter.

TSA should be replaced with the hundreds of thousands military personnel across the globe; just like EVERY other country across the globe. Eliminates wasteful spending

The TSA has never caught a terrorist. The fact that we are subjecting our own citizens to this treatment shows the terrorists are winning.

"Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
— Thomas Jefferson

This policy needs to go. Unbelievable. Where is the proof that this works? And where will the line be drawn after this? I'm modifying my personal and business plans to not fly if possible until this is repealed.

I will stand with the rest of the undersigned against flying until this madness is halted.

What ever happened to our rights?

The system in place does not make us more secure, it just makes security lines more interesting attack targets. The FBI and the CIA are doing better detecting threats before they get to the terminal, cockpit doors are locked, and passengers are more aware and will fight back. Security theater at the terminal is not helping. Groping pregnant women and 3 year olds is not helping.

I have never been stressed about flying. Now I have to decide whether I want to be seen naked by a stranger or groped by one. This is unacceptable.

I'm not looking forward to flying for the holidays. If TSA has to pat down my 3 year old daughter I'll cry. You are not making me feel safe.

The TSA is out of control. I'm sick of being undressed, prodded, delayed and exposed to X-rays. We aren't any safer, our civil liberties are just being raped.

We shouldn't have to give up any rights when we fly. I plan to not take any more trips until this policy is changed. The TSA is pure security theater that doesn't make us any safer. Look at how Israel does it and they have far more security concerns.

I recommend the TSA take a look at what Israel and Germany do for their airline and airport security. I never feel safer than when flying through Germany.

Get the Govt off our backs!! I refuse to fly with Big brother watching.

I consider the TSA's behavior to be blatantly abusive. It's unconstitutional and #TSAbuse must stop.

Over the line!

hose who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

Stop the Security Theater; it does nothing to increase security and everything to invade the privacy of every passenger...

boycott flying until these practices are stopped.

I won't vacation in the states until this is changed

There should be no "constitution free" zones

"The US is becoming everything we have stood against."

The TSA does not provide security. It simply provides the illusion of security. It's security theatre.

Won't be flying until they remove the machines and stop groping.

These devices and policies are a despicable breach of 4th amendment rights. Additionally, we look foolish compared to nations like Israel that have more imminent threats and are able to secure their air travel without the "security theatre" that we see here in the USA, and with a minimum of inconvenience to their citizens.

As an airline employee, I find these measures to be intrusive! Bomb sniffing dogs do a better job!

This is one more reason, and one huge reason, why I will always drive rather than fly when I travel. The airline industry will never get another dollar of my money until choosing to fly no longer means giving up my dignity and constitutional rights.

No amount of fear on your part warrants exposing me to potential carginogens. Keep your paranoia off my body!

I am appalled that anyone in the TSA thinks this sort of abuse is acceptable.

When we fear absurdly improbably attacks this much, the terrorists have by definition won.

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
- Benjamin Franklin

It is bad enough that you are doing this to adults when it is a clear violation of their Fourth Amendment rights, but there is no excuse to do this to children. It is pedophilia and child pornography and it is a disgrace to our country.

We will not stand for security theater.

Please do not allow sexual assault to be institutionalized in our country. Nobody touches my children except my family and their doctor. Certainly not the TSA drones.

The TSA has grossly overstepped it's bounds. First, eliminate these invasive and unconstitutional searches, then eliminate the TSA. http://www.myvidster.com/video/600891/Video_of_TSA_Screener_Accosting_3_Year_Old_Child_at_Security_Checkpoint

This is tyranny, pure and simple.

As Ben Franklin said, "He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security."

This is an egregious violation of our rights as US citizens, and it must be stopped immediately.

The scanners and groping make us no safer, cost millions, and rob us of our dignity and Constitutional rights.

This ridiculous increase in security theater has no real impact on improving our national security. The backscatter scanners present real health risk to passengers and especially to pilots, flight attendants, and even TSA agents who all work in constant interaction with the machines. And if anything, the additional "opt-out" pat downs only harbor TSA agent pedophiles and perverts looking to cop a feel or see people naked.

Our national security needs to take a cue from the Israelis airport security and look for actual _terrorists_ instead of searching and restricting people's goods and person in an attempt to find weapons.

As a father of two girls I am horrified that they would be treated in such a manor for the simple act of traveling by air. It is unacceptable that the TSA can do something to an American citizen that US military personnel cannot do to a member of the Taliban. How much freedom do we forfeit for a false sense of security? My family and I are staying home this Thanksgiving and Christmas.

The use of these machines, coupled with the highly unconstitutional "full body search" is a violation of everything the United States of America was founded upon. While I applaud the desire to take measures to avoid terrorism and ensure safe travel, there are better ways to prevent terrorism at 30,000 feet other than groping paying customers, no less by many people who may not even have a high school diploma, or any candor or courtesy.

Stop eroding my rights in the name of fighting terrorism.

I refuse to allow my family members to be molested or pedophile-grade photos be taken of them, so we will not be traveling until these horrific practices are stopped.

I am Canadian, but part of the GEOS program and frequently travel in and out of the US. The risk of 1 in 20 million of dying from radiation emitted from these machines, versus the 1 in 30 million chance of being blown up by a terrorist really has me questioning these particular security measures. If it doesn't decrease the odds of dying, then it's not a good thing.

The damn scanners are pricey and they don't even work!

Ask yourself one question: Are these security measures really helping, at all? Or do they just make you feel more powerful?

Stop compromising our freedoms in the name of poor security practices and do something -EFFECTIVE-.

I should not be required to make a decision between doing business with the USA and avoiding sexual harassment.

Perhaps we should arrest the operators of scanners who are looking at our children naked.

This is sickening: http://www.myvidster.com/video/600891/Video_of_TSA_Screener_Accosting_3_Year_Old_Child_at_Security_Checkpoint

At what point do we stop tolerating our freedoms and rights being abused? NOW, that's when.

I will not fly commercially until "enhanced" pat-downs and Backscatter X-Rays have been eliminated from all airports.

It’s gone way, way too far.

I've already cancelled trips because I don't believe the TSA is doing anything to actually provide safety or security. They are only making travelling difficult for the general public.

How about instead of groping the public or endangering them with x rays, you actually scan and secure the cargo that is being shipped on flights?

How about being a bit more human?

How is it that you constantly seem to out moron yourself? It's rather ridiculous really. The facade does not fool anyone.

The TSA needs to justify its existence or cease its existence.

It is unconscionable that such procedures, methods and devices would be employed on minors — that, alone, is enough reason to immediately cease their use.

Please make me proud to be a US citizen and cancel this lose/lose policy. It is OK to make a mistake as long you are willing to face up to the reality and correct the problem.

While the intention of greater security in airports is admirable, this is the wrong system. We should be focused on finding terrorists, not weapons.

4th Amendment, read it...

I will not fly again until these scanners are removed and less invasive techniques are used.

I have a wife and a 21-month-old son, and there is no way I will let either of them be put through the indignity of the back-scatter scanner or a pat down. We simply won't fly until these methods are gone.

"Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security." - Ben Franklin

Will not fly until the scanners and gropings have stopped.

As a male Sikh who wears a turban, I am routinely "randomly selected" for additional screening. Though I understand the need for additional security, at what point do we say enough is enough?

TSA screens are unconstitutional, easily breached, and nothing more than security theater.

I suspect that a reasonable and proactive protest to government is the most effective way to pull backscatter machines from airports. I think this petition is a great start.

I want my privacy back.

The comments from the TSA Secretary suggesting that travelers who do not like the new procedures find different transportation show the ridiculousness of the TSA administration.

Air travel is a required part of life for many working individuals, and these are precisely the people who are most at risk from this technology due to the frequency of their travel.

I plan to delay flying with my family until these machines are removed, and invasive searches are discontinued. I believe the current course of action is unconstitutional. Moreover, the search process sends conflicting signals to our children, whom we are teaching to raise alarm if adult strangers touch them.

The infringement of our privacy has signaled that the terrorists have won.

Congratulations, the terrorists have gotten the U.S. government to force every person who steps on a plane in this country to submit to an invasive body scan or to be patted down (including the groin area) by a government official. I would qualify that as them winning as they have significantly affected our way of life for the worse.

I'm not flying until this stupidity stops.

The TSA must be stopped. I am sick of people who make an hr. making the rules in this country. Thanks to them, the terrorists have already won.
Plus these scanners do NOT help anything, they just make money for the stock holders in the company that manufactures them. Now thats one list I wouldn't mind being on.

Unreasonable, abusive, and ineffective. Stop the TSA from abusing our dignity. Stop subjecting us to untested radiation. Stop wasting our tax money on security theater.

The biggest threat to our nation and freedom is not terrorists, but the continued erosion of our privacy and rights in the name of safety.

Veterans sacrificed for our freedom. Now we have to sacrifice our freedom and dignity when traveling. Thanks, TSA.

It's embarrassing that our country even let it come to this.

This government policy is appalling and an affront to human dignity.

We can do better than this in the United States.

The intrusive backscatter x-ray debacle smells of excessive government lobbying for profit, and it has made safety a lower priority. The x-ray dosage may be hundreds of times higher than stated (as the radiation is absorbed by skin rather than being diffused through the entire body). Furthermore, these are doing nothing to enhance security, would not have caught the "underwear bomber", and continue to present ripe targets for BOMBING - namely, the lengthy security line itself.

Take a hint from Israel, already.

I like the fourth amendment!

Security theatre is not security. We need to return to pre-9/11 levels of security and train in behavior profiling.

Of course passenger safety is the primary concern of the TSA and just about anyone who boards a plane, but the extremes to which we have taken the charge of protecting our flights are simply too far. Rather than focus on making flying safe, quick, and enjoyable, the TSA has followed a path that violates passengers' privacy and and is not especially effective. Thank you for bringing this matter to the attention of the public and those in charge, hopefully we will soon travel with dignity once again.

Scanners are nothing more than a symptom of the bigger problem.

I fly 100+ times a year.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

I certainly will not ever fly again until the ridiculous security theater the TSA has created is removed. They are not making us more safe, they are making everything worse.

Your search techniques are un-American and frankly will not keep us safe. Please implement security that actually has been proven to prevent terrorism, like what Israel uses.

I opted for one of the new pat-downs instead of a backscatter x-ray. Though I did not have an experience that was as harrowing or abusive as the ones we've all heard about by now, I think it's important to note that this search, even when performed promptly and courteously by a polite member of one's own gender, is humiliating and intrusive. I don't think my goverment should make me feel that way. It's difficult to say where the line is where protection and vigilance overstep into my freedom, but I think it's fair to say that my genitals represent one of those lines.

Flying today is miserable enough without enduring assault.

For the love of pete... Can we start with proper profiling?

I will not trade my actual security, freedom, dignity nor health for the illusion of safety. Other countries (such as Israel) have found ways to accomplish all these tasks, so it's possible. Lose the arrogance, and gain success and safety for American travelers.

Guilty until molested innocent.

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

Not flying until this harassment stops

Please act now to stop unwarranted searches.

I, as a taxpayer, do not wish to fund the TSA's involvement with screening air travel passengers. They have continued to increase restrictions without merit, and they have now crossed a line.

Because part of the ticketing fees are used to pay for airport security, doesn't this constitute prostitution (transacting money in exchange for sexual touching) for all those that opt out?

Pretty soon we won't need the Megan's Law website to find sexual predators. All we'll have to do is visit our local airport where all the pedophiles will be waiting at the security checkpoint dressed as TSA agents to "pat down" our daughters and sons for the sake of national security.

I am concerned about the safety of my child both from poorly-tested X-Ray equipment and from unethical pat-downs. None of these activities are making us more secure, but rather invading our persons. Real security comes from trained personal profiling of every flyer and solid investigative police work *before* a potential terrorist ever enters the airport.

Absolutely appalling what people will allow in the name of "fighting terrorism". These hurt nobody but the average citizen.

Stop the nonsense TSA.

Because terrorists don't have body cavities, right?

It's time to take a long hard look at our security protocol an institute a truly risk-based system instead of falsely claiming that the one we have is in fact risk-based.

http://goo.gl/xn2g

Serious questions have been raised by knowledgeable people regarding the safety of the so-called "naked-body" scanners. To make matters worse, there is no evidence that either of these DEGRADING "options" (AIT scanning or the groping/molestation) do anything to make us more safe. Shame on you all!

The cost of this type of security in terms of dollar to purchase/operate/maintain and in terms of personal violations and hardships outweighs the threat that it is combating.

Already not a fan of flying nor the old-style security checkpoint protocols. I know it's no easy job but then the TSA needs to smarten up, modernize their methods & stop hiring fast-food employee rejects. Surely our safety can be ensured without molestation or risk to health.

Dude, where's my constitution?

I'm a frequent flyer and have contributed greatly to the economy of states other than my own. I will NOT be flying until some sanity and dignity has been restored to our broken security system.

I plan to opt out of both full body imaging and this 'enhanced' pat down. If my request isn't granted I will choose not to fly. These new 'security measures', in my opinion, are either pornographic or sexual assault.

Stop wasting our time and money on security theater. The real threats are defeated before the checkpoint - or in rare cases by marshals and passengers on board.

You want us to believe that the dose of radiation is negligible, but we know you've been wrong before. I will opt out every time I fly.

This TSA security theater has gotten out of hand. If a terrorist wants to take out a plane, there are many other ways that it could be accomplished. The TSA is not making anyone safe, it is simply spending billions of taxpayer money to enrich large corporations. People just need to realize that nothing is completely safe, but air travel is still one of the safest methods of long distance travel.

As a recently arrived "Alien" with a work visa, I strongly object to the "presumption of guilt" which seems to pervade my interactions with the US government and corporations:
- I am not a terrorist and do not appreciate being treated as one
- You have my fingerprints on file - this just increases my chance of being arrested for something I didn't do
- I have never been in default of payment on a bill in my life. So why can't you trust me to pay a a month bill?

Let’s not forget that former homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff is the founder of the Chertoff Group, a security consulting firm whose clients include manufacturers of full-body scanners.

Chertoff’s group represents Rapiscan, a California based firm “which until recently was the only company qualified to sell full-body scan machines to the TSA.” Last summer, “TSA purchased 150 machines from Rapiscan with million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds." We have been Rape Scammed again by Congress!

Google "Michael Chertoff and TSA" Let's start the rebellion and close down Air Travel!

Enough is Enough!

This free-born Englishman would dearly love to visit America but objects to being treated like a potential terrorist by the TSA et al, so regrettably shan't.

This is just more of the security theater and there has to be a point where enough is enough.

Thank you, veterans, for helping to preserve the right of the TSA to perform illegal hazardous searches and commit sexual assault in the name of "safety". Is this really what you fought and died for?

Please, no more security theater.

If it was anyone else touching me like this, it would be assault!

The first time I refused to go through the scanner and received the "enhanced pat down" I couldn't believe the horrifying sense of violation I felt. I am encouraged by this movement and I hope we can put an end to this.

You know these scanners aren't really working, there's far more effective ways of doing this 'security'. To be honest, with the amount of pain you're causing every person who travels through the USA, the terrorists have already won.

Look to Israel - they offer far more protection with far less intrusion.

I have been groped 3 times inappropriately. This is all complete theater. Please stop the madness!

The scanners are bullshit, so is having to take off my shoes

We need *real* security, not "security theater" who's only benefit is the manufacturers of the "new" "technologies".

At what cost this so-called "security"?

Groping and naked scanning of American citizens CAN NOT be a requirement for flying in this country. Stop this invasion of privacy NOW.

I've stopped flying because TSA makes the screening process so uncomfortable. There *must* be a better way.

The TSA should be abolished altogether. We need to end ridiculous security theatre.

Let's end the sacrifice of privacy, especially for the mere illusion of security.

Enough Security Theater!

By using these machines, the terrorists win.

I will never fly again until our constitutional rights are given back to us. I will not be a victim to your "terrorism" prevention schemes. We are not the terrorists. Terrorism is nothing more than a buzzword the TSA uses to manipulate and control us at will. We will prevail.

Any other business, government controlled or not, would be sued or closed down for such shameful representation. As a Massage Therapist, I take client/customer privacy extremely seriously and there should be no exceptions to the rule.

I'm convinced these methods do not make us safer.

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty
to purchase a little Temporary Safety,
deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Oh, and keep your damn hands off my "Junk", TSA!

I shouldn't be afraid of my government. It should fear me.

This isn't even done for security - it's about treating us like cattle

Stop screening for weapons. Start screening for terrorists. End the victimization of America.

This is an affront to the idea of personal liberty in America. This is an affront to the Fourth Amendment. This must stop.

Will not fly under the scanners and intrusive strip search are halted.

Unconstitutional!

Abolish the TSA

TSA hires anyone who can put on a uniform. I don't think makes one qualified enough to exploit others on a hunch.

Such qualification doesn't exist.

this really is a bigger deal that you are all making it. please give us our privacy back!

things are really getting out of hand.

It makes me sick to think that my girlfriend will either be forced to pose naked for some guy behind a screen, or be groped by a TSA officer when she goes to visit her family in California this weekend. It's absolutely disgusting, and totally unwarranted. Stop this now!

I've been subject to a "search" like this before, only it was considered sexual assault. I didn't give my permission then, and I certainly won't subject myself to it now.

Unreasonable search is unconstitutional, and unnecessary! Compare the odds of dying in a terrorist plane attack to other ways of dying. The risk does not justify the costs here!

You may think you're keeping America safe, but in fact you are letting the terrorists win by changing everything anytime they attempt anything. They have you by the balls.

I'm concerned about the backscatter x-rays, not merely for myself, but also for airline employees who will have to use them daily, and also for the TSA staff who are being exposed throughout their workday. When the alternative is groping in a way only my husband should touch me, is there really an alternative? As you drive the public away from the air, I expect our tourism industries will feel the pressure even more than their already feeling from our weak economy. If any of this made me safer as a traveler, I'd understand, but I don't see it as effective either.

TSA: Security of the Absurd.

Will not fly until these unnecessary and ineffective screening practices are gone.

I want to visit your nation without being treated like a criminal.

In many parts of Alaska, there is no alternative to air travel. Sometimes "just don't fly" isn't an option. So, in order to attend a wedding, get a medical procedure, or travel for business, travelers will HAVE to be subjected to these measures.

This practice limits my interstate travel and interstate commerce because it puts undo burden of proof on me to prove innocence. It's a travesty.

This needs to be stopped immediately. Enough civil rights abuses have gone on in the name of terrorism avoidance.

I, too, will not fly until these scanners and the invasive "pat-downs" are done away with.

This needs to end.

Restore Liberty and Freedom! We allow the TSA to degrade american citizens while not following our Constitution!

The current TSA policies violate our 4th Amendment Rights and only make people *feel* safe, instead of actually keeping them safe.

There are plenty of examples around the world of better security systems. Let's study those procedures instead of crawling through the process like infants until we finally realize that those systems were better to begin with and eventually adopt them anyway. We're reinventing the wheel, and we still only have a square.

This is a perversion of our rights. The TSA is completely ineffectual.

Security Theater is not security. I don't care if it makes weak minded people feel better stop violating our rights in the name of "security".

Has a terrorist EVER boarded a small passenger jet flying point-to-point in the United States? The TSA is the most lazy and stupid bureaucracy the US has ever created.

I will not be flying until these measures are repealed.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should

We should take a look at how Israel handles security -- less intrusive searches, but with better behavioral analysis.

This is overdue.

This is truly a disgusting invasion of provacy! What happened to the 4th Ammendment?

Please stop these hazardous and unnecessary searches.

Please learn from the example of other countries who have not adopted such practices.

No confidence in TSA's mission to provide security. Their methods are an expensive joke.

I'm from the UK, and I can guarantee that I, and many like me, won't be coming anywhere near the U.S. until this mess is cleared up.

The TSA and related agencies have lied at every turn in deployment of this equipment. We were told the information was to be anonymous and transitory. Now we find that it can may very well be stored in databases. Only question in my mind is, "Will this be for the gratuitous perverse satisfaction of anonymous bureaucrats or for use as the country continues its sad descent into a police state?"

I won't be flying until the use of body scanners and physical assault pat-downs are discontinued.

Fear the indifference of decent people.

"those that sacrifice a little liberty for a little security deserve neither."

Tell me this is not convincing: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelification-high-security-little-bother

I am a pilot. I find this not only distasteful but also a waste of time. There are other, proven ways of keeping our country and our airline traveling passengers safe. One quick look at the Israeli method will tell you that profiling is needed. It is not and need not be racially motivated.

Why aren't we using Israel's model?

I consider the use of this technology to be an illegal search as defined by the Constitution. I will not fly until these policies are revoked.

Buying a plane ticket is not probable cause

This is wrong. It needs to stop.

We are finally seeing the limits of the public's tolerance to the security theatre that is the TSA. Take my shoes, okay; Touch my genitals, not on your life.

These searches and their cancer-causing alternative are clearly unconstitutional and therefore illegal and unethical violations of the 4th amendment protection from unreasonable searches.

I fly routinely for work, and I've traveled a good deal internationally, and I can tell you that our security procedures are far more invasive and time consuming than any other nation's that I've experienced.

Security is necessary, but not at the cost of liberty.

This is a digusting policy. I do not want to be exposed to a full body scanner, and I do not want to be touched by a TSA agent. It's degrading. Unfortunately I may have no choice as I haven't seen my family in years and the only way to get there reasonably is to fly. I've never dreaded going home for christmas before like this. Flying used to be pleasurable, or at the very least tolerable, now it's frightening, and it's not because I'm worried about the plane being hijacked, it's because of the TSA

These searches are a violation of my right to privacy and in no way make me feel more safe.

I am a person.

I understand that security vs. freedom involve tradeoffs. The Backscatter X-ray machines and extended physical pat-downs are an unacceptable tradeoff of violating our rights for little real gain in security. We as a nation need to choose the freedom we have stood for again and again, and not the illusion of security at great expense.

This violates the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. - Ben Franklin

why is a citizen with no outstanding warrants who wishes to fly subjected to more scrutiny than a convicted felon being transported to prison?

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." as published in Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin

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

Adding a backscatter x-ray machine increases our exposure to radiation but does not make us any safer. If you remember correctly, the 9/11 hijackers did not use weapons to take control of those planes. Perhaps we should stop searching for weapons and start searching for terrorists.

This is assault.

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

Please reevaluate the TSA policies. If Israel doesn't require passengers to yield liquids and shoes (and they have much more visible threats), then why do Americans?

Don't touch my junk!

"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 United States Constitution, Fourth Amendment.

Stop making it an unpleasant experience to fly!

I opt out!

The TSA is nonsense, everyone knows we're no safer just more inconveienced.

I will not fly unless this goes away.
I will not send my salesmen on business trip either.

Be reasonable, and keep your hands (and X-rays) off my body.

Are we to choose between exposing our children to harmful radiation and being groped by a stranger? No flying for us until this ridiculous policy is rescinded.

I have a Fourth Amendment right not to be searched without probably cause and a First Amendment right to call “Bullshit” when I see it.

I will not fly anymore until some sanity and reason is restored! Let's see Janet Napolitano scanned and groped in a public terminal ....

Security is important, but personal freedoms are what this country is based on.. when did we trade so much away?

The TSA provides "security" in name only. Security theatrics and scare tactics only weaken the USA.

What DHS is doing shows the terrorists have won. We are living in fear, our rights have been eroded. Please fix this.

I WILL NOT FLY AGAIN UNTIL THESE SCANNERS ARE REMOVED AND THESE "PAT DOWNS" IS STOPPED "HAVE YOU NO DECENCY MAM" next a terrorist will put a bomb in his anus and we will all be forced to do anal cavity searches.

We live overseas, fly frequently and have a young child. Please help us not have to explain why she must expose herself or be groped if we want to go home for Christmas.

I support real security, like the Israelis have, not the bureaucratic waste of billions spent on the pretend security we currently have.

As an American who has had problems with skin cancer and tumors, I have no desire to be blasted with radiation in order to travel.

I will not fly until the TSA are banned from airports. A person with half a brain or a single brain cell for that matter can see where all this is heading.

We are trading our essential freedoms in the guise of safety. This is wholly unacceptable. Our freedoms and liberty are what make us different from those that attack us. If this means we will be attacked again, so be it. I will not fly, for work, or for personal, until this is remedied.

I'm particularly upset about the impounding and searching of personal computers and electronic devices. This is incredibly intrusive and airports are not the place to do it. If they want to search my computer, get a warrant and come to my home.

Why not follow the same security protocol that Isreal uses?

Stop the lobbyists from controlling EVERYTHING in our world. We already have to pay to bring clothes with us when we travel, and now you want to be able to see us without them?!?!

Stop this nonsense.

Have found renewed interest in rail and road travel.

Stop touching me & keep your eyes out of my pants.

Stop the security parade, and stop treating citizens like criminals.

The airlines better start putting pressure on the government, as we won't be flying until this clear breach of trust and law is stopped.

Status quo is:
1) My daughter gets molested
2) My daughter gets nude pictures taken of her

Anything would be better than that.

Please stop this.

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." – Benjamin Franklin
I will be taking viagra, eating re-fried beans, and drinking a quart of milk before i get in the line. I will then DEMAND a pat down.
enjoy TSA

This illusion of security will not keep anyone safe. These new procedures do nothing but infuriate the innocent public. You are violating the basic dignity of every person you subject to this process. Shame on you! Shame on all those willing to participate in such a system whose only purpose is to further erode the Constitutional rights we are guaranteed under the 4th Amendment.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

It's bad enough that this is going to happen to me. The idea of my wife and daughters being subjected to this kind of assault is abhorrent. The TSA is terrorizing me far more than any hypothetical terrorist ever had.

I refuse to fly as long as it involves violating my privacy, insulting my intelligence, surrendering my freedoms, and admitting defeat to the terrorists whose goal is attained by TSA policies. I'm ashamed that Americans with a 235 year legacy of defending freedom would meekly submit to this atrocity out of fear. Anyone who surrenders their proud birthright with a "Better safe than sorry" should be banned from ever again waving an American flag.

I will not fly as long as these invasive and unconstitutional policies and procedures remain in place.

I'm not convinced this is helpful or will increase security at all.

Don't want nude photos of me taken, seen or saved. Where is the personal liberties line? When are they going to implement body cavity searches?

Enough Already!!!

Travelers are not being told that they can use the scanners but if "something" shows up they will still be subjected to the pat down. TSA can see me naked, touch my genitals yet TSA does not screen domestic cargo?! What about a woman who is on her period? Will I be required to remove the pad to prove I'm not a sporting a bomb in underwear?

These scanners and the pat downs are outrageous! The Terrorists have won - can't they see that? They have managed to send the government scurrying around, restricting our liberty and wasting millions on security and war. Add to the insult and injury, these scanners have not been fulling tested for health risks. I refuse to fly.

Getting ridiculous. What's next? No thanks!

TSA needs to drop it's persecution of the man from San Diego as well.

"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." We are US citizens and we will stand up for and fight for our rights.

Even Israeli security experts agree full-body scanners are a waste of money. Don't let the threat of terrorism - which has existed for decades - degrade our air travel (vital to our economy) and our individual rights. It's time for an overhaul of the TSA.

Because of these enhanced procedures, I will not be personally flying anywhere until these machines and procedures are removed. They do nothing to deter terrorist activities and are strictly security theater, paid for by us as taxpayers through the lobbyists paying off our representatives. Nobody will stand up to these intrusions because they do not want to be labeled as "against security."

Stop wasting taxpayer money on theatrics.

It is because of the TSA that I am trying to cut down - if not eliminate - flying. It is ironic considering the terrorists would find this outcome desirable and the TSA is doing what the terrorists could not.

This invasion of my civil liberties only represents a minimal gain in safety and more or less represents the terrorists winning. They've made us liver in fear and terror and accept violations of our liberties in name of "safety". We need to stick it to them, not have it stuck to us.

I have no intention of subjecting myself to any TSA groping, scanning, wanding or patting down. I won't opt out of the foregoing, I'll opt out of flying altogether. Hit the airline sin their pocketbook and I guarantee this foolishness will come to a halt.

If the TSA really believe they need to feel up or take nude photos of children and adults as part of the "war on terror" then really the war is over, and the other guy won.

These security measure are ridiculous, ineffective, and a GIGANTIC violation of our rights as US citizens. Put an end to this madness. These measures do absolutely nothing to ensure the security of airline passengers.

Imagine George Washington agreeing to be scanned; I don't think so.

It's a violation of privacy as well as direct violation of 4th Amendment (when no cause exists). Just because I fly doesn't make me a criminal or a potential criminal.

I would rather risk a terrorist murdering me on a train or a bus than submit to sexual assault by my own government. Listen to reason.

Give us back our rights please.

Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither and will lose both.

I will seek out alternative means of transportation as much as possible until these machines are removed. I will continue to exercise my right to "opt out" when I do need to fly. These machines are a blatant violation of our privacy rights.

Unethical, Unconstitutional, Unamerican

Why not follow this proven approach: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelification-high-security-little-bother ?

Our approach in the U.S. to security and our general mindset in regards to terrorism is fundamentally flawed. Our security processes should resemble those of modern day Israel. Our collective attitude should mirror that of WWII Britain.

We will not consent to these gross violations of our civil liberties.

This is deplorable and needs to end immediately.

I will also not fly until the scanners and invasive body searches are halted.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1775

Total invasion of privacy.

Stop violating our constitutional rights and focus instead on security procedures that actually target likely threats, political correctness be damned!

We have begun treating all passengers as criminals, but it has done little to help us catch actual criminals.

In the 1930, public work programs gave us infrastructure, grand public buildings, rural power, water and telephone. In the twenty first century public work programs are lining the pockets of corporations, and training a generation of petty thieves, vandals and molesters. As a child I had expected my future to be better than this. As an adult I say enough. Creating agencies who's sole purpose is to create the illusion of safety does not produce the anything like the nostalgic lifestyle of the the 1950's. In fact it creates something more akin to the fascism that gripped Europe in the 1940's, and the plutocracy that set Japan on it's hellish road of conquest.

As a foreigner, I feel even more threatened by the possibility that somebody whom I'll have a hard time understanding, and who may claim not to understand me, might sexually molest me for no reason at all. We won't subject american citizen to such degrading procedure. I shouldn't suffer it either.

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

Never mind the fact that we are giving up liberty to purchase no safety.

If we are not afraid they lose 90% of their power.

Why does the TSA need to grope my 1-year-old son?

Follow the Israeli model.

Honestly, the entire thing reeks of failure. Has there even been any studies on how effective these more imposing security measures are at stopping threats, compared to previously? What a waste of time and money.

I will not be molested!

This security theater stopped being entertaining when it became violating. How about some real security?

This is America- We invent new things everyday. I'm sure we can come up with a less evasive way to check for bombs. This is stupid!

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security. -Ben Franklin

Especially for those people underage, or those who have been sexually traumatized, the pat down process can be extraordinarily emotionally & mentally painful. It does not enhance our safety; it only angers the people of the United States and makes our country look like a country of fearmongers, rather than a country of free people.

We're more likely to be struck by lightning than die from a terrorist on a plane, but we don't freak out about thunderstorms.

Terrorist only "win" when we're terrorized; it's easy not to be. Let's be adults and stop the nonsense.

Security at airports should be the same as in any major train station; i.e., minimal.

I have a metal rod in my thigh that sets off metal detectors every time I fly, and so I always get the pat down.

It's humiliating, frustrating, and time consuming. I wouldn't want anyone to go through it who doesn't absolutely have to.

Furthermore, there is no reason for you to see me naked. Please, don't.

I refuse to submit to unreasonable searches of my person. You will not see so much as a penny from me until this policy is rescinded. I'm willing to drive and take trains as necessary for my travel requirements.

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

This concerns me as a mother. I do not want my children exposed to x-rays, nor do I want them physically assaulted in an opt out situation. This is disturbing.

On protest day, I suggest everyone wear a Dirk Diggler prosthesis.

We as Americans will absolutely not stand down while our Constitutional rights are violated. This is despicable and should never happen in the United States.

I will not fly while these policies continue to be in place.

Has TSA ever found a bomb in the checkpoints? No. Meanwhile bag-screeners let Dubia send live bombs last month. Come on, stop the madness! This does NOT make us any safer!

Using ionizing radiation for this purpose should be a crime!

I used to fly quite a bit. Now it's so intrusive, I refuse to fly. The current security measures are invasive, yet none to effective. Israel's approach seems much better for the flyer and more effective..

This is a repulsive policy. Why would anyone be okay with this? I'd like to see them be groped publicly and their scanner images of their bodies passed around and see if they're okay with it themselves.

Give us our Constitutional Rights back.

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a Temporary Safety, deserve neither"
--B. Franklin

What next? Cavity searches? In the name of "security"? How far does this go? Rest assured, I will NOT be flying with my 1 year old daughter ANYWHERE until these potential sexual assaulters and potentially dangerous machines are no longer utilized. These ignorant, exhorbitantly expensive and fear based measures don't really do much to fight terrorism, they only to create fear.

The last thing I want for my young daughter is to have complete pat down in front of her entire family.

I moved to this country 20 years ago, and became a voting citizen 8 years ago, and frankly this invasion of privacy and civil liberties stands in stark contrast to everything my adopted country stands for.

"Those who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

-Benjamin Franklin

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

No safety is worth our dignity, even if I believed for a second that these measures did anything to enhance safety (which I do not). Those that died for our freedoms, and those that have died to terror attacks, did so in vein if we allow our fear to compromise the principles upon which this nation was founded. Strip searches and body scanning will not win the war on terror; they are in fact a sign that the terrorists have won. It is easy to defend freedom when it is not under attack; a nations strength is measured by how we act under duress.

I will conclude by saying I fear the TSA and its ilk far more than I do the Taliban; a terrorist may kill me, but erosion of freedom takes away my will to live.

I will not fly until the "naked or groped" policy is lifted or the TSA is dissolved.

I fly over 100 legs every year and I work in medical imaging, so I am very away of radiation and the potential side effects. I trust UCSF more than the federal gov't. I also believe this to be a direct and egregious violation of our 4th Amendment rights and such drastic invasions aren't required in other countries, take Israel for example.

Get some pointers from Israel.

TSA is just a performance to give the illusion of security.

How far can we push the word "privacy" before nothing is private?

Look to Israel's method, act intelligently.

It's time to stop giving up our freedoms in our own country while we try to spread freedom around the world. We need to start practicing what we preach, otherwise we are no better than the citizens of other countries that won't stand uo for themselves.

I will not fly until these scanners are removed and invasive searches come to a stop. Its uncomfortable enough as it is to fly, I refuse to put myself and family through this.

It is unacceptable to do away with the American people's rights as protected by the Fourth Amendment in the name of "safety", especially when the effectiveness of the methods in question are in dispute.

The TSA should focus its energy on identifying real threats.

I'm seriously thinking about finding alternatives to flying.

We need security procedures that do not compromise our health and our privacy.

Will be driving to our next destination.

WIll not fly until security procedures are reformed.

Take a page out of Israel's security handbook; they have the best in the world and they don't use this.

Already committed to flying over Thanksgiving, but intend to drive to annual conference in CA next year instead of flying if current backscatter/pat-downs still in effect.

Act NOW ..........

In addition to violating our rights these full body scanners seem to be another band-aid system that is designed to make flyers feel safe rather than actually be safe.

“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” Benjamin Franklin

As a mother of a young child, this is despicable. What young children are being subjected to in the name of safety is nothing short of molestation and pornography. How am I going to explain it to him when I fly to see my father? "Sorry honey, I know I told you to scream for the police in anyone touches your special place, but you have to let this strange man do it now."

I can't even imagine how a rape survivor would handle such a horrible expierence.

We have gone from panic to panic with no discernible evidence of much planning beyond what the lobbyists can sell to the TSA. The whole of airline security needs to be reconsidered and revamped. People waiting like cattle in massive lines, accosted and mistreated is un-American and unacceptable.

We can do better.

Start profiling Muslims. They are the ones that do this.

The TSA is a joke. Different rules are upheld at different airports, so there is no consistency. And then TSA agents are rude and condescending because we don't know how to go through security. Well, maybe if security rules were THE SAME at each airport, we would know what is expected. Why do I have to take off my shoes at SEATAC but not at LGB?

And now these imbeciles have the authority to fondle me and/or see me naked while you save the files? (and yes, your machines CAN save images-this was a news story MONTHS ago)

I don't think so. No more flying for me. You people should be ASHAMED of yourselves.

Outrageous overreach by the TSA. In this the terrorists have already won a major battle.

This is an inexcusable power grab and erosion of our civil rights as American Citizens.

Until I have the rights in an airport that I have in the rest of the US, I will avoid flying if at all possible. This is an affront to my freedom, dignity, and privacy.

Most of my adult life has been dedicated to Law Enforcement. Never have I ever seen an agency that is so obsolete and defunct as the the TSA. I should mention that I am also a licensed commercial pilot. Stand up and take back your dignity America!

The goal of the terrorists is not simply to kill western civilians, but to wage a campaign of fear that will erode our precious freedoms and financially ruin us through frivolous reactionary spending and economic disruption. They no longer need to kill anyone, they simply need to keep us scared. We are scared, and the policies of our government clearly demonstrate our irrationality. Hence the terrorists have won.

I refuse to allow a choice between invasive images and invasive fingers. Neither are healthy, fair, or effective.

I am appalled that I live in a country that would allow these illegal searches. If there is a class action suit brought I will do my best to be considered a part of the class.

I am horrified that I will be forced to choose between allowing strangers to view naked simulacra of my daughters, or strangers to sexually molest them while traveling in my own country at the behest of the federal government. Moreover, I think such a search is unwarranted as a safety precaution. If the terrorists have gotten a bomb in their underpants to the crowded security line, we've already lost, they'll just set it off there. This is a policy born of fear, not reason. The terrorists have won when we stop living courageously AS Americans, but instead allow our basic human dignity to be degraded and violated in this way.

Sexual harassment is illegal for citizens. It should be illegal for the government as well.

I refuse to fly and submit myself to sexual assault, harmful radiation, invasion of privacy, being oogled, and having naked pictures of my body stored and I am outraged that these things are happening to millions of people, including children. People need to stand up for themselves and not just go along with it, justifying that this "security" outweighs the health risks and devastating emotional and mental effects.

This is an abhorrent and completely illegal act. I am appalled that these types of procedures were ever put into place, and I will be refusing to fly until they have been eradicated.

By taking your positions in our US Government you swore to upload the laws of this land, and those include the Constitution. You cannot let these procedures continue, you are legally BOUND to stop this.

This is the very definition of unreasonable search and seizure. There US constitution exists to protect the citizenry against this very form of tyranny. I hope the present administration will no longer turn a deaf ear to the welfare of the people of this great nation.

I will never submit myself or my child to this possibly unsafe, invasive technology.

The TSA should wise up upon concern from many of us, that these ways are not working and are only creating a rift between travelers and those that are supposed to keep us safe. Is it not obvious it's time to re-think these screening methods?

Stop the Security Theatre! Lets get real behavior profiling and other proven effective ways of detecting terrorists, not these invasive, inconvenient search methods that *still* won't prevent a terrorist from bringing on a bomb inside a body cavity.

I applaud those who have spoken up about the egregious overstepping of personal boundaries by the TSA and on the rare occasions that I HAVE to fly, I will be diligent in informing fellow passengers of their rights.

These procedures do nothing to keep us safer, they just allow the TSA to invade our privacy and our bodies.

I stopped flying in 2006 due to the TSA's ridiculous ban on liquids. I have even less reason to fly now.

It is unreasonable for Americans to have to make a decision between subjecting themselves to unnecessary radiation or being molested. As someone who both has concerns about their health and has actually been molested (not just airport security) I find it disgusting that I need to make a choice between my physical or mental health in order to share my research to other professionals concerned with the same problems.

The radiation part needs more research, but the right to privacy does not.

Terror attacks since 9/11 have not been thwarted by additional TSA theater and wasted taxpayer dollars, but rather by passenger action.

Not flying until we have reasonable, sensible airport security like Israel's.

Fight the enemy, but not at the expense of the people.

Why can't we be more like Isreali airport security?

This is despicable, idiotic, and wrong. A perfect example of bureaucracy gone awry... and it's not helping to make us safer. Find the actual terrorists-follow Israel's airport-security example.

We know these machines do not make us safer, but rather line the pockets of the people who advocate for them. Please do not give into corporate greed and fear-mongering at the expense of public health, personal dignity, and freedom. As Benjamin Franklin said, "People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."

I will not fly until body scanners and groping are done away with.

No to searches. No to machinery that scans and stores pictures of me. Security is not enhanced with these measures. Make them stop.

Stop abusing our civil liberties!

Americans used to fight and die in the name of freedom, now many seem unwilling to face even the slightest increased risk to exercise those freedoms.

Wow, talk about terroists winning...

I refuse to fly or let my children fly until the use full body scanners and genital searches are halted. This is a disgusting treatment of law-abiding citizens and a violation of our 4th Amendment rights.

Invasive and unreasonable search for our safety dangerous enough. But invasive and unreasonable search to provide only the illusion of safety is entirely unacceptable.

I find the scanners and pat-downs deeply degrading and offensive.

I don't think the 'illusion of safety' includes you copping a feel every time I fly. Please change this policy, would YOU like to be subjected to this kind of government sanctioned 'rape' so to speek?

Seriously, this has gone way too far.

These scanners are ineffective and harmful. The pat-downs are invasive. I want the option to use a metal detector. How much is Chertoff making on these machines?

Please give my heartfelt thanks to the TSA for encouraging me to try Amtrak or go Greyhound again.

Not only are these X-Rays a potential health hazard, I do not believe they provide any additional security or protection for me or my family when flying.

Technology will not obviate the need for intelligent profiling. Look at Israel's record.

We can't be ruled by fear.

As a former TSA TSO(Security Officer) I fully endorse this. It was a daily conversation by all TSA employees of the actual effectiveness of the agency. If the employees who are doing the searches don't believe that they are effective in countering terrorism, then why are we still wasting money on TSA. TSA is just a deterrent, a very expensive, ineffective one.

I will not allow the government to eliminate my personal freedoms out of fear of a terrorist attack. I will never sit by and let them win like TSA employees do every day.

I will respectfully decline full-body searches on my upcoming holiday travels

I didn't sign up to be a performer in what is ostensibly security theater. And I don't pay taxes to have my civil liberties trashed in what is, experts agree, a farcical and useless security process.

For Liberty

The TSA has more than overstepped their boundaries this time. I want our skies to be safe just like anyone else, but there is a line between rationality and paranoia.

I just returned home from a trip where not only was I xrayed but patted down too. All for a zipper on my cargo pants; which, by the way, I had worn on my trip out. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the search procedure.

Enough is enough; this isn't the way you catch bad guys. You really think groping 80-year-old in-laws and having them take off their belts and shoes will stop terrorism?

Yea , their is no chance in hell i am going to allow them to scan my wife.

I'd rather be FREE than SAFE!

Won't fly until they are removed.

Those who give up liberty for safety deserve neither

When TSA agents insist they must either see or touch my junk, the terrorists have already won.

We have an unusually hi incidence of skin cancers in ou family—both squamish and melanoma—not to mention other cancers. I doon't need to increase my xray load in airport scanners.

This is a clear violation of my Civil Rights, and I don't Appreciate the fact that I am "consenting" to these conditions when I buy a plane ticket.

There's a point at which you don't want to travel anymore.

As an American citizen, I refuse to be stripped of my Fourth Amendment right guarding me against UNREASONABLE searches. The backscatter x-ray and "enhanced" pat down have crossed the line.

I was in the Navy during OIF, and worked on check point in country. Not even during war time, did I see such madness.

The appearance of security is not the same thing as security.

The madness needs to stop! Whatever happened to CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS?

Since our CORPORATE-owned government only listens to $$$$$, let's all boycott any and all air travel until these illegal searches stop!

Police States never work, never have, never will!!!

This petition says it all. No, I will not give up my rights - I'm still using them!

I will not fly until the scans AND pat-downs are ended. These are not providing additional security.

We need a new strategy. I want to feel safe, not violated.

I wonder how Obama would feel if his young daughters had to submit to virtual strip searches or groping by strangers. Well, that's exactly how THIS parent of a 14 y/o teenage girl feels!

The need to protect the public is great, but not when the cost is so high. We each have a right to not be touched or scanned should we so choose, and the simple act of boarding a plane does not negate that.

I am not afraid.

I did not serve in the USMC to tolerate this absurd approach.

We are destroying the very thing we are attempting to protect.

"Remember, remember the 5th of November."

I will not submit to this sort of invasion of privacy. I have not committed a crime, nor am I suspected of having committed a crime. These TSA techniques do not make us safer, they further strip us of our liberties.

I work for a commercial airline and worry how this will affect an already struggling industry.

As citizens we have rights and due process to respect and dignity.

As a survivor of sexual assault, I am deeply troubled by the new TSA rules. I have a trip scheduled next week and am very fearful of the triggers that being groped will elicit. Flying should not make me subject to humiliation, molestation, or displays of my naked body as a regular course of "security." If it is, I will not fly again.

End all security theatre now.

I was recently made to have a the enhanced pat down. It was humiliating and felt like punishment for refusing the full body scanner. I was touched in ways that are outrageous and usually illegal. Show evidence that these methods (full body scanner and enhanced pat downs) are necessary AND effective. Otherwise stop wasting time and money on pretend security that takes away my rights.

Showing fear my fear of backscatter radiation does not mean I am agreeing to release my human dignity.

As a survivor of both childhood and adult sexual assault I am now utterly terrified to fly. This may impact my career! If I do fly and am re-traumatized by TSA, will the government be paying my therapy bills?

Congratulations. The terrorists have won. This is your fault TSA.

Don't fly and the IATA pressures the TSA do actual security work instead of fondling people then we all win.

I just don't think it's an effective measure... Which means the sacrifices in rights and privacy are made for nothing.

I am a woman, reasonably agile, with bilateral hip replacements, meaning I am wanded and patted down -- that is, treated like a suspect -- every single time I fly. This is not necessary! Stop it, please. Your security theater in which I am an unwilling actor makes no flight safer.

I want our airports secure, but not at the risk of my privacy and health. Consult Israel on how to secure an airport and passengers!

As a medical student, I am very concerned about the possible long-term effects of backscatter machines. For someone flying even semi-regularly, the additive effects of these "scans" cannot be trivial.

As an American citizen, I am concerned about the "enhanced" pat-down procedure. If we are subjected to random and unwarranted searches and pat-downs at the airport, what next? train station? bus stop? office building??? I fail to see how anyone can blindly accept this invasion of privacy (not to mention the possible health effects of the alternative) all in the name of our "protection."

Tired of this.

Almost a billion flights since 9/11 and no planes have gone down because of terrorists. Of the terrorists that have gotten onto flights, they were stopped by the passengers: NOT the TSA.

Bye bye air travel! Hello buses and trains!

Our freedom is in jeopardy by our own actions, not of terrorists.

TSA needs to work on some intelligent intelligence rather than treating the innocent public like animals and criminals.

the tsa is simply "security theater"

Has the whole world gone crazy? Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules?

Oh, apparently not. Well that's refreshing.

As a very frequent traveller I am exposed to enough radiation while flying. I do not need any more... There has to be a better way!!

You can't stop me from flying and the first time my privates are groped or I'm forced into a backscatter scan I will sue.

The founding fathers wrote the Bill of Rights for a reason. The TSA search procedures are invasive and in many cases illegal. Pretty soon we'll have to give blood/urine/stool samples to be "allowed" to fly.

None of these invasive searches has caught a single terrorist nor will they ever. This is nothing but a ploy strip Americans of our civil liberties in the name of Freedom. To quote Benjamin Franklin, "Those who would give up Essential Liberty
to purchase a little Temporary Safety,
deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

I will not fly unless this egregious practice is modified.

I opt out.

I am strongly objecting to this invasion of privacy and battery against the individual. A sexually offensive touching is a crime in this country and I will not be subjected to this kind of treatment.

This needs to stop. NOW. The TSA are acting like they’re Gods.. basically it amounts to the following: endure sexual humiliation, or else endure sexual molestation or else be denied the right to fly at the least. What’s next? Demanding all passengers disrobe to their skin to go thru security? Public (meaning in full view of the entire airport) cavity searches? WE THE PEOPLE should not be ordered around like cattle by our own government!!! Airport security is becoming more and more akin to the processing that went on at Nazi Death Camps…which makes me wonder if that’s the real goal...

Too far

I will not fly until these scanners are removed from use and strip searches are completely halted.

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

I have traveled a million times from Israel and back. Their security is 10 times better and 10 times less hassle.

I've already avoided one trip partly due to the use of these scanners and pat downs. I plan to avoid many others.

What was that amendment? the one about illegal search and seizures!

This is an outrage!! I've seen the images from the "mild" x-ray scanner and my christian upbringing will not let me feel comfortable letting anyone other than my husband see me naked. and having a stranger touch me is out of the question. to take away our right to opt out of these invasive procedures is to take away our RIGHTS AS AMERICANS!!!

Another reason not to fly.

Xray machines and pat downs go too far.

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

You are more likely to die from the radiation from the porno scanners than by a terrorist on an airplane.

Why not check out how Israel does airport security. They are professionals.

There are better ways. I've postponed all travel.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated...

When we have reduced ourselves to these crazy security checks just to fly somewhere the terrorists HAVE won!

I really want to see the TSA adopt security like Israel employs at Ben Gurion Int'l....use WELL TRAINED individuals to question passengers and weed out those who act suspiciously! Technology cannot take the place of intelligent and educated workers at security checkpoints!!!

Our idea of "homeland security" smells like proto-fascism to me...

There must be a discernible line between the degradation of liberties for the protection of the public. These scanners and the TSA do nothing to protect individual liberties.

I will sue anyone that molests me or my children. I will call the police on you and your child pornographers and sue you for everything you have.

I'm afraid to fly now. I don't want to submit to a virtual strip search or inappropriate touching.

Security experts claim these scanners might not have stopped recent attempts like the xmas bomber

To hell with your screening

While it is claimed that radiation levels are harmless, one could point to similarly erroneous claims: e.g. Prozac reduces anxiety (but could cause suicidal tendencies!!!).

Besides violating the 4th Amendment, this treats every citizen as if they were a criminal. What happened to "innocent until proven guilty"?

I will not submit to strip search without a warrant. If that means I can't fly, then I will drive or take the train.

As a mother of a young child we will never fly again if these policies stand.

In addition, I point out that the effectiveness of AIT scanners is questionable at best and simply adds to the sense of utter absurdity that comprises the entire airport security experience. Excepting securing cockpit doors onboard planes, so-called security procedures implemented since 9/11 are merely cosmetic and serve little to no practical purpose. It is a gross waste of resources and a gross violation of the flying public's rights and dignity.

I will not fly I will not travel I will tell the company I work for I will not fly and why until this mess changes.

I prefer avoiding unnecessary exposure to radiation, so I'll be opting out on my next flight. I read today how TSA agents are now actually reaching into the pants of the airline patrons, and this sparked another health concern. Is it OK to ask the TSA agent to get a new pair of gloves out from a sterile package in front of me so that I can confirm that I'll be safe? I'd hate to avoid getting cancer from the scanner only to get an STD from the previously-groped customer, so this should be a reasonable request.

The number of people unwilling to fly as a result of these Fourth Amendment violations will greatly increase the number of traffic injuries and fatalities. This is madness and must be stopped.

The terrorists have won...

Fourth Amendment – Protection from unreasonable search and seizure.
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.

Sexual assault is not ok, even if it is the government carrying it out.

padded down by a member of the same sex -- but what if that guy is gay ??

We have already changed our summer travel plans as I will not allow my daughters, ages 14 and 12, to be viewed nude, sexually assaulted, or exposed to radiation.

When do we as Americans get back the rights our forefathers fought for?

I have been able to cancel any plans that would require me to fly for most of the next year. I've had enough xrays and ct scans I've already doubled my cancer risk and I refuse to be felt up by strangers.

Invasive and won't help against terrorist attacks. Plus it will set a standard for the whole world.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelification-high-security-little-bother

Freedom! Forever!

Americans are being given the choice between an invasive full-body scan with unknown health risks or an even more invasive groping by a TSA employee. What's worse? These types of ridiculous procedures don't even increase our security. If this wasn't so disturbing, it would almost be funny.

As as sexual assault survivor/PTSD sufferer, I had to stop flying after December '01, when I was patted down six times on one cross-country flight (apparently part of the unofficial cute-girl procedure). Was just thinking I might be ready to try air travel again, but not now. This will be awful for everyone, but particularly awful for survivors and for some transgendered people.

Transamerican Sexual Assault

I'm choosing to drive to my family from here on out. I don't care that it takes 2x as long and is more expensive and hard on my car. I will not subject myself to this.

Is no wonder that more and more Americans are choosing not to fly. Choose trains or carpool if possible!

This is LETTING the terrorists win... come on get it together!

unless my name pops up on the No-fly list, keep your nasty hands off me! And no, I will not allow you to scan my image!

WE ARE NOT AFRAID

I just want to fly without getting hassled any longer. I would consent to a battery of background checks, etc if I could have a nexus type of fast lane that got me through security quickly and with dignity. Just like nexus, if you break the rules, you would lose it.

TSA's practices hurt everyone, including the TSA.

If I'm going to pose nude, I'd better be getting a check from Hugh. Keep your paws off of me, TSA.

If I must fly, I will, but I will do my best to find alternative transportation. When I do fly, I will request a PUBLC pat down so everyone sees what they do. This will not stand.

Unnecessary x-rays or molestation should not be our only options.

Paranoia

There are other ways to properly search a person. Such as the air suction technology that some airports already have. You can see if a person has anything under their clothes. And a regular pat down with this would be just as effective.

This seems like unreasonable search to me. Start another site about the unrestricted ability to seize personal laptops at the border!

Stop these ridiculous invasions of our basic privacies

Once again, I stress that this is a violation of our 4th Amendment rights! Please consider this!

I already glow with radiation. Is this really necessary?

If they want to touch my junk, I'm charging them 0 plus a convenience fee just like everybody else.

I opt out.

I went thought the backscatter machine without knowing it over the weekend. By the time I realized it, I was already being bombarded by its X-rays I wish that TSA would take more time to explain what they are doing...actually, I wish TSA provided reasonable security as opposed to the charade they go through now. Good article on how Isreal does it: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelification-high-security-little-bother

As long as these machines and invasive groping are completely removed from the airports, my sons and I will be driving!

This is just another example of TSA's desperate, random, reactionary policies. TSA is and has always been a disgrace. I would suggest training qualified employees instead of relying on a machine that so absurdly violates privacy and personal space.

Israeli security has this figured out. No need to reinvent anything, just copy what they do.

I am making the commitment NOT to fly until these excessive "security" measures are brought to reasonable terms. My dignity is a basic human right which I will NOT sacrifice for bullying under the thin veil of "security".

Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? These scanners treat innocent civilians like they are criminals! Not to mention they are causing so much fear and anxiety for passengers. People may fear flying but they should never have to fear the security check procedures.

Clearly, fascism is alive and well in this country. Perhaps we should all dress accordingly when we fly: (a plug for the holiday travel attire, not the site): http://www.cafepress.com/tsagetoffgeton

Another good reason not to fly. I have to say, this whole security thing is getting out of hand. Are we going back to the Bush Years of the New World Order?

People are disgusting. Some might try to sneak through by placing an object in a private place so that it cannot easily be found, but just because people are that sick minded, doesn't mean that every flyer out there should have to submit to having a humiliating scan, or a violating pat-down. That is also sick.

Fear is self perpetuating. The TSA creates fear and then exploits it

While certain security measures need to be in-place to protect the crew and passengers aboard our nation's airlines, there is a limit to what should be considered just and reasonable. Most of these invasive security measures do little to further any real security.

The TSA needs to be more accountable to the public.

I will not fly until you stop treating passengers like criminals.

I've got metal replacements for both knees and both hips, so I'll get groped every freaking time I take a flight. Do I feel safer? Not at all. Do I feel violated? Absolutely. It's fucking bullshit.

Israel uses humans to secure their airports. Let hire some humans to do personality scanning for us instead of potentially harmful machines.

We too will not fly until these scanners are removed from use and strip searches are halted.

There's got to be a more dignified way to secure our safety in the air.

I am concerned after reading reports that some attractive flyers are being singled out for this additional procedure for the apparent pleasure of TSA staff. Some of these flyers are under 18. It's creepy. It needs to stop now.

TSA has taken more, and more, and more of our rights away. They have crossed the line; we should have required that they desist earlier. Given the odds of a bomb being on a plane, vs. the odds of cancer in my family, I will take the odds of dying in a plane explosion.

I am boycotting flying entirely until this is changed, and the powers of the TSA are carefully restricted to within the law.

Security, yes. Perhaps we need to have a national voluntary strip-naked-at-the-airport-day to demonstrate the ridiculous nature of the TSA's unnecessary searches.

I used to run these scanners at an military entry point in Iraq. They should not be used in our airports. The TSA has crossed the line.

This is going to be the issue that gets politicians fired next election.

Our rights have been violated enough since 9/11

This is such a violation of our rights!!

I used to fly often, always was amazed at the lack of consistency between airport security, this one take your sweater off, that one leave it on. It's a joke. Now xray-ing and groping is all of a sudden the only way to keep us safe. What a joke. I have no desire, nor intention to fly again unless absolutely necessary, how insulting and humiliating. Do you want your 11 yr old son groped by "professionals?" No thanks.

I personally experienced the TSA perverts who want to take pictures of you naked... First they stared at my boobs the whole time in line, then they made sure I went into the scanner. Didn't even know I had the option to say no. I felt very violated. I actually feel LESS SAFE with the TSA!

I wouldn't allow someone I don't know to take naked pictures of me or touch me in this way normally, it seems unreasonable to have my government do it to me. The choice "be searched or don't fly" isn't reasonable for some people (without driver's licenses, cars, ability to reach trains or long-haul buses), and results in forced coercion, not consent. I'm ashamed of our government for allowing this to happen. Thanks for killing my love of travel and potentially stopping me from contributing to our economy by flying and traveling.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons...against unreasonable searches...shall not be violated"

Ever hear of probable cause? If you don't have it, hands off!

When the U.S. Government dismantles DHS and TSA, only then will sanity begin to be restored to airline travel. Wasting over 1 trillion on Whole Body Imaging (which can store, transmit, and print images, despite TSA claims to the contrary), along with seizing gels and liquids over 3 oz. is patently absurd, and has never caught a terrorist, much less prevented a potential terrorist. WBIs have not been proven safe; they expose travelers to far more radiation than previously admitted, and the effects are cumulative, resulting in skin cancer, cataracts and other abnormalities, especially among children and the elderly.

Aside from those facts, TSA screening methods are just an exercise in security theatre; no security is gained, while people blindly acquiesce to invasions of privacy and other civil liberties.

Homeland Security and TSA have gone way too far this time!!!!!!!!!

As citizens, when were we given the option to vote for or against this horrible invasion of our privacy!? The TSA is undermining all of the difficult victories towards FREEDOM we have made since this country's inception. The TSA hides behind a false promise of "enhanced safety" and as we all know, the only safe place in life is IN A CAGE.

We, as Americans have the right to travel without being demeaned or humiliated by any government official. The reactionary solution provided by the Department of Homeland Security do not assure security as they are implemented after a terrorist threat, one which will not be repeated as it failed. The further you restrict our freedoms and violate our dignity, the more you change our way of life. As this is what they want, congratulations: You have let the terrorists win.

Unless the public STOP flying all of this will fall on deaf ears. We all know money or the lack of it for the airlines, is the only thing that will get their attention.

Stop looking for weapons, look at the way people act.

This is a horrendous violation of human rights. I am extremely dissapointed in the actions of my government and I will opt out every time I fly.

Stop Trampling our constitution!

I have 3 primary reasons.
1. Our Privacy should not be invaded, we are not communist or Utopians.
2. People pay good money for a flight, they should not be harrased, especialy to this extent.
3. I Don't want Terrorism to win.

We are not criminals. Do not disrespect our bodies as if we are.

I am a Flight Attendant and have gone through a 10 year FBI background check. These methods should NOT be used on Flight Crew members.

I will not fly again until the useless TSA security theater is removed from our nation's airports.

We are becoming a paranoid police-state. Stop the madness before it's too late.

There is other ways to protect our security then with these practices.

Don't touch my junk.

There are better ways. Consider Israel and their methods.

I won't fly until they come up with some other method of security. If not, well, I'll drive.

Continue the fight!

It is completely absurd that there is an exemption for Muslims because it is "against their religion" to be seen naked or to be touched in that way. Well, you know, I'm just a plain ol' Protestant Christian, but it's against my religion too! I'd like the same respect that the Muslims get!

Napolitano must resign. Period.

I don't want a stranger looking at me. But my teenage daughters & son too? That seems illegal.

Please stop these unreasonable searches. The backscatter machines don't work, and these extra searches aren't the answer.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Stop with the groping!

"Do you know why Israelis are so calm? We have brutal terror attacks on our civilians and still, life in Israel is pretty good. The reason is that people trust their defence forces, their police, their response teams and the security agencies. They know they're doing a good job. You can't say the same thing about Americans and Canadians. They don't trust anybody," Sela said. "But they say, 'So far, so good'. Then if something happens, all hell breaks loose and you've spent eight hours in an airport. Which is ridiculous. Not justifiable..."

http://chasingtheflow.tumblr.com/

Worthless security theater at the expense of both our rights and our dignity.

I was fine with occasional scanning. I was fine with occasional pat downs. But now it is to invasive, and to harmful for those in the airline business. Pilots are professionals and patriots and should not be treated like criminals.

With all the FBI, CIA, and police to work to find the potential threats BEFORE we come to the airport. It's time for Americans to be free to fly and not be molested. I quit flying because you!

It's wasting valuable time and extremely humiliating.

Saftey first is the mantra preached in all lines of work, yet x-ray scanners are somehow off the hook. I'd rather have a terrorist attack than the whole nation having cancer.

The TSA has yet to stop a single terrorist. These measures are nothing more than security theater and a means to scare the general public.

TSA goons are *not* security professionals. They have no more authority than mall cops. Like bullies, they abuse their power.

What would Ben Franklin say and do?

Enough is enough! I will NOT fly again until there are NO invasive x-rays and NO invasive & unethical pat-downs. We are ceasing to be the land of the free.

People shouldn't be afraid of their governments.

The measures are just for show, unnecessary and ineffective. You'd be better to train and hire smarter agents.

We can't even trust the TSA to not pilfer our luggage, but are expected to believe they'll only use these machines responsibly?

The money would be better spent on training TSA employees to read body language and ask the right questions of the travelers they feel are suspicious. No single machine will ever replace clinical judgment.

Those who sacrifice essential freedoms for temporary safety deserve neither

As a former airport worker, I protest the fact that the most stressful part of flying happens before you ever get to the airplane. The current state of airport security does NOT make us safer!

There is nothing reasonable about this escalation. There is, however, mounting evidence that the forcible introduction of these procedures is the direct result of lobbying by the makers of the systems involved. The measure is being supported not by well-considered evidence, but in exchange for donations to sitting government officials, and lucrative sinecures when they leave office. As such, this gross violation of the 4th Amendment isn't simply the result of dim-witted incompetence. Rather, it's the foul issue of corrupt government.

National Guard soldier against invasion of privacy/ infringing on our freedoms.

Flying next week and really not looking forward to my choice of unproven radiation exposure, or sexual assault as a precondition to getting on the plane.

Please stop treating citizens like criminals.

I will not fly until I have the guaranteed option of not being scanned or sexually molested.

I am quite tired of this absurd "security theater" we are forced to be a part of.

I will not fly through any airport that allows this unlawful, immoral and indecent assault upon lawabiding citizens. This is an outrage, and I have had enough!

if this continues, I will refuse to fly.

this laws violates any privacy we have left and strips us all of our dignity which we hold close

Stop fighting the "last battle."

I haven't flown since before 9/11 due to family circumstances which have now changed. I would love to begin taking trips again; however, these invasions of privacy are discouraging me from doing so. I believe in modesty and do not think it is right to subject people to virtual strip searches or to being felt all over when there is no reason to suspect anything. You should be focusing more on scanning packages instead of taking nude x-rays.

I wear a silver bracelet that I cannot remove. Because of this, I have been subjected to the "pat down". It is beyond humiliating. The TSA perform this degrading act in front of any and everyone in the security screening area. As someone who was a victim of rape, I hope you can see why a stranger touching my privates in front of a crowd is at the least traumatic. Please put a stop to this insanity. Let me have my dignity back.

I simply refuse to fly under these conditions, which is heartbreaking because I currently live overseas, and don't know when I will see my family again.

I work as a flight attendant for a public airline and I would feel comfortable if passengers did not have to go through such invasive screening.

I will not fly again while these procedures are in effect. What kind of a country guards against terrorism by treating its citizens like terrorists.

this isn't the change that I wanted

I opted out, without drama, at SFO. Took only a minute more than the person in front of me who didn't opt out.

We shouldn't have to pose for porno or be sexually assaulted just to fly somewhere. Is this even America anymore?

There is no evidence that the strategy has worked; and there is no suggestion that this will work. These searches make us less secure, not more.

The TSA is out of order and run by a bunch of morons. Fire the whole bunch and start over with a new sane program.

This is going too far.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Will not fly until scanners are removed and the intrusive pat-downs are eliminated.

Stop this insanity. I would NEVER want my daughters, nor myself, to be forced to go through such a degrating, invasive procedure. Nor do I want some guy in a back room ogling naked scan photos of my daughters. How disgusting. Can this "civilized" and "advanced" country of ours not find better ways of ensuring security?

As a survivor of sexual assault, I am afraid to fly until this is revoked.

I will not fly again until the groping and invasive scans stop.

I fly a lot and find the TSA experience degrading and unacceptable. At least if I have to have my junk touched, let it not be a man !

I want to travel, but I don't want to become a pr0n star or be violated.

Booo, booo, I say.

This is not a matter of security. For years security experts have criticized this kind of ineffective 'security theater'. Stop groping people!

I will not fly until I do not need to put my body in danger of further exposure to radiation. What's more the degrading and dehumanizing effect of your sick and twisted idea of "security" is offensive to every citizen of this country. I will not lend my support in the form of dollars.

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I will not fly until they respect the Constitution, guess I'l be driving for a long time.

We get enough radiation from our cell phones, required medical x-rays, and naturally occurring onces from the sun. I don't need yet more radiation exposure to my body especially when this is not an effective way to enforce security.

I am retired so I plan to drive on all vacations etc.

Opting out every fight I get "randomly selected", and will encourage all friends to do the same

Little by little, more power is being granted to the Government over the people with our acceptance and complicity. Time for the foot to fall.

Stop violating our 4th amendment rights.

I am not against pat downs with probable cause, but feel the Backscatter X-ray or aggressive pat down regime is unconstitutional.

Please pay attention to this.

To presume everyone is guilty until proven innocent is in direct conflict with the very basis of what this country was founded on. The actions of the TSA and government only
offend the innocent and drive the terrorist further underground. We are submitting to a police state and delivering our rights on a platter to a reactionary mentality that only serves to discriminate against everyone and fails to protect as new methods are derived to circumvent procedures imposed.

Totally inappropriate, invasive, and degrading!

God bless America

Those who would... give up their rights for safety will soon find they have neither.

First, the safety of the x-ray machines has recently become an issue with many research scientists at UC San Fransisco. They claim that the level of ionizing radiation emitted from these machines is dangerous since the majority of energy is delivered to the skin. While I am young, and not yet at the particularly high risk for the mutagenic effects from x-rays, I am female and do not think it is acceptable for my risk of breast cancer to be increased by my decision to fly in an aircraft. If you have not read their letter I highly recommend you to do so. Furthermore, these scanners save the images they have taken. Not that having strangers, even briefly, see a greyscaled naked image of you is enough reason to be disturbed. After all this, they are not even infallible.

Second, the opt-out procedure. While it is not physically dangerous, is psychologically demeaning. Having security agents, although respectful and perhaps even apologetic, touch your primary and secondary sexual characteristics is something that should be done only under probable cause and during admission into prison, not at the airport to millions of innocent people. This is a major violation of personal rights and should not be the alternative to health conscious travelers.

Third, I may reconsider the necessity but not my emotional reaction to these procedures if they actually protected people from terrorism. However from what I have seen from the news, one man places explosives in his shoes, we all now and forever must remove our shoes, another carries liquid explosives, we can no longer carry water, or a reasonable amount of shampoo, another man places explosives behind his scrotum and now we must submit to groping or being virtually strip searched. This is not security it is reactionary nonsense, in that somehow we are protecting ourselves from techniques that have already been done. The only three things that have increased air travel safety since 9/11 are increased intelligence and old fashioned police investigation, which is done before the terrorist even gets to the airport, increased public awareness (from what I know all terrorist attempts in the actual plane (that have passed through security) since then have been stopped by perceptive passengers), and the inaccessibility to the cockpit.

While I realize that these scanners are promoted for increasing passenger safety, I disagree and see it as security theater. They only cause the public to think they are safer while not actually making flying safer. Humans are notoriously terrible assessors of risk. We remember the rare terrifying events and must feel safe even if the things we think make us safe do not.

Frequent Flyer

I'm flying in January. Please straighten out this shit beforehand. Thanks.

The power of the Government is out of control. Look to Israel, they don't violate innocent people for fear of offending the real terrorists, Muslims.

We also need to stop pat downs of our children

I will not fly until you get your heads out of your ass or allow yourself to be subject to such searches first.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=OSIS

I will only fly if I absolutely have to. Otherwise, no vacations for me that require an airplane.

As I am a minor, I have no control over whether or not I fly. I can only hope that I will not be molested without my consent by the TSA.

Body scanners and groping have to stop.

Every new public revelation leads to a change of story from the TSA, leading me to believe that I cannot trust my government in these matters.

I refuse to fly unless these invasive machines and pat-downs are removed. They would not have prevented any of the previous terror attacks and are illegal by our own constitution.

I will not tolerate this abuse of my Constitutional rights. I'd WALK before I'd fly under these conditions.

this situation is outrageous and violation of the 4th Amendment

If Israel doesn't need these, why do we?

Both options are excessive.

I have no intention of flying until these scanners are repealed and the TSA disbanded.

These policies are a greater threat to our liberty and the principles that make our country great than any terrorist attack.

Terrorists sure are doing a good job making us feel scared and nervous... In the meantime give up more freedoms right? All for the greater good? Sounds all to familiar...

It is shocking that anyone in the US Government would NOT consider this a violation of the constitution of the US. Saying we cannot fly if we do not select one of the options is extortion as well.

This will not stand.

I am required to fly for my job...so it is imperative that this unconstitutional injustice be stopped immediately. Thank you.

Backscatter X-Ray machines are un-American and go against the spirit of the 4th Amendment.

I'm done flying until these abhorrent machines are removed. I had to watch my 10 year old daughter get patted down just so we could return to the country after Christmas. If Israel can have the safest airport security without this humiliation, then so can we.

Rote procedures and zero-tolerance policies are not going to elevate low-quality TSA hires into intelligent, observant guardians of the skies.

Manifesto(s)

I will not fly.

Sick.

Airline Pilot.
Please stop this insanity. Talk to the Israelis about security. They laugh at us.

As a business flyer who has been hasseled by the TSA since the beginning, how about giving us a break please.

TSA doesn't make me feel safe. Can I scan them or pat them down??

No flying for me until these unreasonable, unconstitutional acts end.

flight attendant

"If we act like a terrorized nation the terrorist will have won!"

Abolish TSA. How's that for deficit reduction?

This is a horrible violation or rights and privacy. The government has gotten this one wrong. Way wrong.

These searches and scans are unconstitutional and a violation of the Fourth Amendment. Moreover, this is embarrassing to the global community. Let it be known that with these new procedures, with very serious detriment to one's physical and mental well-being, the terrorists have won by taking away our rights. We are now guilty until proven innocent. America, land of the suspicious and home of the terrified. Is this what the Founding Fathers had in mind?

Stop the security theater. Instead, spend it on measures that prevent possible attacks long before they arrive at the airport.

Couldn't possibly subject myself to these new procedures. No way.

Cancer and groping, not fun.

I am appalled by the lack of common sense of leadership in this Federal Gov't who not only have created policies to save face rather than solve issues, but in creating those policies have completely disregarding both genuine public safety and 4th amendment.

I experienced my first full body scan at the Kansas City airport last week and I found the experience both humiliating and degrading. I had to remove more parts of my clothing including my belt, watch and all items from my pocket including my wallet that I have never had to remove before In years and years of Air Travel. I am appalled that the TSA "security theater" has devolved into the equivalence of a sexual assault!

Israelification.

I feel profound disappointment in my country.

Please don't put me through this humiliation.

Thank you for your consideration in this matter.

I will not subject my wife, children, or other family members to this unsafe, humiliating scan. There are safer, non-invasive alternatives available. Please use common sense and don't give in to the politics of fear.

The increasingly invasive measures put in place by the TSA are doing little more than increasing the level of contempt for the TSA, and nothing to improve *actual* security. Particularly given the lack of security within the TSA's own staff-base itself. Subject the agents to the same publicly humiliating scans & pat-downs each time *they* enter the secure areas of an airport, and perhaps I'll consider flying again sometime.

There is always a trade off between freedom and security and we have crossed the line that is acceptable. What is "security" if the actions taken to ensure it themselves endanger the rights and well being of the people supposedly being protected?

The backscatter imagery and the opt out pat down is a true violation - not just of my rights, but of my physical person. Providing "security" should not be an excuse to ignore the constitution.

If an organization of the government refuses to follow the constitution, then what was the point?

As stated in a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

The only people terrorizing us now are the perverts and fat cats of the TSA. Buying a plane ticket is NOT an automatic consent to bodily harmful and physically/emotionally invasive searches. Rape survivors, cancer survivors, pregnant women, all of us have to make a decision between harmful and disgusting options in order to travel. It is sick. How do we explain to little children that this absolute stranger is going to molest them but its okay because the government says the stranger has to touch you? Sick. The TERRORISTS have won.

The Constitution of the United States is designed to protect the government from the people, when government oversteps its bounds, it is that governments existence that becomes threatened. We the people have had enough of your running roughshod over our rights. Stop this nonsense.

The scans can cause skin cancer and the pat downs are offensive. STOP THE MADNESS!

Security should be a reasonable deterrent, not an industry built around how to violate us all without actually stopping people who are truly determined to commit acts of terror.

I do not plan on flying from the U.S. until this stops.

Why can't we have successful screeners like in Israel??

I am appalled with y'all and the entire government!!! No one has the right to infringe on our civil liberties. If y'all are so worried about protecting us, then pull all troops out of every country, so we can quit policing the world. I'm sick and tired of my rights being taken away!!

A nation that would trade liberty for security deserves neither. I don't even believe any of the very serious liberties we're giving up yields one bit of security. This is out of hand.

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin

Why not have a safe fly list for known honest citizens?
Profiling is the way to go ask Israel.

It's embarrassing as hell that we even need to say this.

This is a country by the people and for the people. Forcing me to be fondled or viewed naked implies that I am owned by the government when the opposite is true. The government serves at the will of the people.

While I personally find these policies merely irritating, I see that there are those who find them truly traumatic (rape survivors, young children who have no capacity to understand, people from more modest religions and cultures). For the sake of all of us, remove this ridiculous security theatre.

Security theater will not change statistical facts. The most dangerous part of your flight to anywhere in the world, will be your drive to the airport. The TSA knows this, but if they were to respond to these threats appropriately, what would happen to all of their superfluous jobs? They would vanish along with the threat.

I will not fly until these procdures are removed, and those responsible for these violations of American civil liberties are punished.

Come on, Janet and John. Strip down for us while I give you a little "feel" - you show us yours and we'll show you ours!

When did my genital become an issue of national security? What law has been enacted that we now must all become exhibitionists without our consent or wish, at the forfeit of flying if we don't present it all? When did a full-contact frisk and a grope become permissible while we are presumed innocent in this country?

How many lobbyists are going to visit your offices to push the sale of more of these devices? You're following the path of the FORMER DHS head who now works for a company who sells this junk to the government. KICKBACKS!

The TSA's goal should be efficiency and security, NOT humiliation and incompetency. Improve!

Treat the citizens with the respect they deserve. Stop the intimidation. I do not want to be treated like a criminal every time I fly

The entire budget of the FBI is almost equal to that of the TSA. Think about that for a second.

I have one word for everyone, "Israelification". Israel went through this same problem 50 years ago, and guess what? You can get through an Israeli airport in less than 30 minutes. They have the safest airports in the world, and you would never know you were being watched.

The TSA has never caught a terrorist. Not One. Ever.

I will not be flying until this nonsense is stopped.

I have had cancer. I do not need more x-rays. These searches are in violarion of my 4 th Amendment rights and a health hazard. In addition these searches are humiliating.

This does not improve security. Forfeiting privacy for a false sense of security is a dangerous and un-American slide to our liberty.

The terrorist have won & you've handed them that victory.

Those who give up liberty for security deserve neither

These machines do not protect our citizens or our country and only serve to humiliate the populace. How did the US government end up becoming the world's largest pornographer? It's despicable.

Traveling soon, hope I don't have to deal with the choice of certain cancer or molestation.

There is no room in a free society for a government agency to arbitrarily enforce a surreptitious security policy under threat of force and financial loss with no means of recourse.

Hello ? Why not conduct airport screenings like Israel utilizes ?

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My mother and father were concentration camp survivors, and were forced to parade nude in front of the SS. I will not fly until these machines and gropers are taken out of the security line.

These searches and scanners go to far. They are disgusting and violating.

I am sickened by these invasive measures. The person responsible for this should know that because of them invading the privacy of American citizens children have already been molested in these pat downs and women are being groped innapropriately. Are you also paying for counseling for those of us scarred by these measures?

I will certainly avoid flying as much as possible while this is in effect.

Please use your power to focus on actual terrorist prevention measures, like screening cargo! It pains me that we have allowed terrorists to make our nation cower in fear like this.

The TSA procedures are an embarrassment to courageous Americans.

I won't fly until there's no danger of my 5 yr old daughter being sexually assaulted by Government employees. America ought to be a shining example of freedom and liberty, not a laughing stock.

We can have better security, without the radiation. Look at tel-aviv.

Please take this seriously. It is a violation of our rights to privacy, and it does not make us more safe.

I have experienced this horrible violation of rights firsthand. I find it overly invasive, immoral, ineffective, unnecessary, and un-American. Please stop subjecting our citizens to this despicable process -- both the backscatter machines and the "enhanced" pat downs.

Shame on this country, and especially this administration, for allowing the lowering of these standards in the name of a false sense of security.

It's not like the scanners can check body cavities. If I were serious about smuggling something onto the plane, they wouldn't find it without an incredibly invasive search. But if we don't stand up to current policy, how long till body cavity searches become SOP?

Enough with the worthless, wasteful, idiotic security theater.

It's sickening that this kind of thing can happen.

After my experience with "special screening" I will not fly again until these useless and horribly invasive techniques and equipment are removed and TSA agents are trained in the proper procedure for a real pat-down used for *security* reasons, plus effective oversight of TSA agents to ensure the watchers are treating passengers as human beings instead of "young female" bodies.

It's time to end this charade. I dread the inevitable day when someone simply blows up a line of people waiting to go through security.

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

We WILL protect our constitutional rights against this and other illegal governmental encroachments. Remind the President he told the People of the United States of America that he would repeal the "Patriot Act" as well. The Will of the People will not be denied.

The TSA and their Backscatter Machines are a complete waste of time and resources and an invasion of personal privacy. There are far more sophisticated and simpler ways for terrorists to smuggle weapons into an airport[Assuming, as the US government does, that they would actually want to try the same thing twice]

Does our own Homeland Security not understand the point of the element of surprise?

This is not ONLY an invasion of privacy, but a waste of valuable resources.

In every public interaction we trust the sharp eyes of law enforcement and the common sense of our fellow citizens to spot and report suspicious behavior. Air travel should be no exception and I will refuse to fly any distance that can be driven so long as these police-state measures are in place.

Does the Bill of Rights mean anything to you morons? Keep violating the 4th Amendment, let's see how long it takes for fed-up citizens to start taking advantage of the 2nd.

This is an OUTRAGE!! I remember when being an American meant we were FREE.

This is the height of ridiculousness. I'd get pulled over for being brown and then subjected to this kind of crap. I AM A PROUD US CITIZEN! I HAVE RIGHTS AND I WILL FIGHT FOR THEM!

I will be avoiding flying as much as possible while this is going on, which is not good for the economy. This whole fear-induced program is a national outrage.

I have been screened so many times by these machines and on top of that, receive some sort of partial patdown. This is degrading.

This is a disgrace. I will not be strip searched without a warrant and give the opportunity to have my naked image saved and broadcast like has just happened to others. This is not an effective method, and is degrading.

In the eyes of the TSA, everyone is guilty until proven innocent. They are indifferent about the options, either let them photograph you nude or let them touch your genitals. If they like what they see and feel, they will let you proceed to your flight.

TSA is a total fraud, a tool to keep the fear level up, vistors away, and citizens totally subjugated. Enough of this crap already, it is total Security Theatre. TSA employees are illiterate thugs.

Casting my vote for dignity.

Let's put an end to security measures that degrade us and don't make us any safer.

The TSA has taken security one step too far and clearly doesn't care about the rights of our citizens. I will start opting out immediately having tried one of the scanners. Using one feels like you're being arrested.

If you would just adopt the same policies and procedures as Israel regarding air travel, problem solved. But you are more concerned with political correctness and the opinions of our enemies than you are about the rights of citizens. Shame on you.

Dont' abridge my 4th amendment rights.

The Constitution protects me from my government digitally strip searching or groping me without probable cause. I reject the notion that my privacy can be violated in order to ensure the safety of others. There is a line that should not be crossed. Likewise, when the next terrorist hides a bomb in her anus or vagina, I will not see it as my civic duty to let my government inspect my wife or daughter's orifices just to ensure the safety of others.

As a survivor of sexual abuse in childhood and violent sexual assault in adulthood, being seen naked by strangers or being touched intimately without my consent are simply not things with which I can cope. I will not fly until these invasions of bodily integrity are abolished. I am encouraging others, especially survivors (that's over 25% of women and over 15% of men in case you need reminding), not to fly until these assaults end permanently.

We do not need the AITs to have good security. All we want is for security to be like it was before 9/11.

I'm learning to fly so that I won't have to go through this.

It makes no sense to sacrifice our way of life in order to "protect" it.

Bad business for airlines.

This is what happens when morons try to catch terrorists. They target everyone except the Muslim extremists who are actually a threat.

The "pat down" is repulsive and the X-Ray is likely harmful. It makes me not want to fly.

There are times when flying is the only reasonable possibility for travel, I have done nothing to give anyone any reason to believe that I might be a danger to an aircraft. These new requirements go beyond the ridiculousness of many of the procedures introduced up to know, and into the realm of the unconscionable and unconstitutional.

The 4th amendment should be respected no matter what kind of transportation you use.

I am staggered at how the rights of people are gradually being eroded. Why! These scans would be absolutely degrading, humiliating and a gross invasion of privacy.

Having passengers that are not afraid to act (see shoe- and underwear bomber) will be more effective that a patdown or a fullbody scan. An overloaded TSA agent is still going to miss something and give us only a false sense of security and a feeling that we were violated.

I was proud to be an American, because we stood up against terrorists and championed liberty. Now, we are letting terrorists win by standing up against liberty.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Being groped by a stranger against my will certainly does not feel like liberty.

TSA has not stopped a terrorist attack yet. As someone who fly every week. I find them a hindrance to safe travel.

I will not fly until these procedures are abolished.

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

we should not be searched like this use common scence. This is not the America I know. Sad.

The erosion of the Constitution is appalling.

The TSA is the best thing to ever happen to Amtrack.

My name already gets me some extra attention (that is my name, no joke). I also have sleep apnea so I have to pull out my CPAP every time I fly so they can swab it - and no TSA agent has ever been able to explain why other than "That's the rules". They have to X-ray *and* swab it. I've done the AIT once - I think from now on I'll opt for a pat-down just to be a dick and slow things down. I'll enjoy making some TSA agent have to feel me up.

Orwellian nightmare. Shame on you.

No amount of assurance will remove my concerns over too much radiation. Sorry. I keep thinking about all those foot x-rays in shoe shops and how it was harmless at such a low dose. I fly a lot.

These procedures are disgusting. If anyone on the street did this to me, they would be arrested for sexual assault. However, because some radical Islaam's have caused problems, we all have to suffer. The radiation that we're being exposed to is also completely dangerous. Neither myself, nor my family, will fly until the scanners have been removed and the "groping" has been stopped.

Please re-think your strategy. Having my daughter's private parts fondled is not improving safety. I've been to Ben Gurian airport in Tel Aviv. They do things differently there, and sonehow it works.

Security by TSA is actually Security Theater. How about a system that doesn't treat everyone like a criminal and actually SECURES something? TSA is in the fear and compliance business.

Leave my crotch alone

Unless and until you have developed a security protocol that identifies and stops 100% (not 99.99999999%) of all dangerous activities, it is not useful. Quite simply, the security system used to screen passengers, crew and ground support is too porous for us to give up our dignity for a little extra security.

This is a violation of the 4th amendment and it must be stopped

This is a clear violation of the 4th amendment of our constitution and must be stopped before we allow the TSA to believe that its policies supersede our laws.

Please stop this violation of our 4th amendment. I am an American and thought the government was ment to work for me not to abuse me.

This is unethical and unconstitutional. The terrorists have won at the point where we sacrifice the rights of American citizens out of fear and fear mongering. Lieberman, this isn't "the world we live in." it's the world in which we, as Americans, have a voice and our voice is being ignored. Shame on you.

SSG, NCARNG and OIF II veteran.

Big Brother is here and the terrorist must be laughing.

No privacy, no peace

Ten years, Crew Pass is in use at two airports...no reason why it isn't at every airport.

This is not the way to keep our country safe.

TSA is a huge "make work program" and does nothing for security. Profiling works.

Eliminate pat downs!!

Enough is enough! The terrorist have officiall won....

The new TSA policies are a violation of my fourth amendment rights and of my physical person.

Of course, there have been unreasonable searches and seizures for years, as we go through the regular x-ray machine and submit to random searches. The whole process goes against the 4th Amendment. This is a good start, but let airlines be private, so we can choose the level of security we want!

My family and I refuse to fly when it means that we may be subject to unreasonable search where the choices are either a nude picture accompanied by a blast of radiation or sexual molestation. This is a violation of our Constitutional rights.

It's been a hassle travelling to and in the US for way too long. And it's only getting worse. Please start bringing some sense back into this...

Those scanners and pat downs do not increase security - they are simply violating everybody's constitutional rights. I hope more and more people and airlines take a stand against those unreasonable, ineffective rules. In the name of safety, just take away all human dignity. Here it is called safety measures, overseas it is called paranoia.

A backscatter x-ray machine or an invasive pat-down do not constitute a reasonable choice. I object to these unwarranted searches and the police-stat a atmosphere they create.

Please also see the health concerns related to this imaging, as discussed by UCSF faculty in the following letter: http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2010/05/17/concern.pdf

"We reiterate the act of body searches or usage of Backscatter X-Ray machines are unconstitutional and should not be conducted by any organization, especially a Department of the United States Government."

Stop the invasion of my rights

I'm worried about the health effects of the scanner and think both that and the groping, I mean "pat downs" are an invasion of my rights.

Only a country founded by Puritans would pull this kind of bullshit.

I am very worried that underpaid employees with very little training are entitled to our very private bodies in the name of safety. I have first hand accounts of groping under the clothes, and have seen the images of the x-ray machine. As a pregnant woman of a young daughter, I am choosing not to fly.

I'm lucky enough that I don't need to fly, but think of the people who have no choice because of their job or family situation. Each time they fly they are bombarded with radiation and embarrassment.

If a TSA employee makes inappropriate genital contact with out probable cause, I will have their badge #, their name, their supervisors name and I will then call the local police department and have them arrested for sexual assault because that is what would happen to me if I made that same contact. You don't get to hide behind the TSA to commit felony assault.

I am hoping we can get the ACLU to gnaw on this for a while.

Write your your representatives in congress and the senate.

Please stop this security theatre.

At some point the terrorists have won

Enough is enough.

I will not be flying until these measures are lifted.

All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to say nothing. These new procedures are invasive, unconstitutional, and unnecessary. They may even be triggering for any PTSD-suffering victim of sexual assault. Show me probable cause for your search, or keep your hands off me.

I am moving to Europe to escape this nightmare. I found other people in the world who find this new practice offensive, disgusting and invasive.

I will not fly while these procedures are in place.

These supposed terrorist traps *do not work*. All they do is deter ordinary passengers and make them unwilling to fly, while costing a great deal of time, money, and effort. This system serves no one.

Airport Security Theatre has not caught a single threat. Mechanical failure is a far greater risk.

I am severely concerned with the medical implications of cumulative exposure to ionizing radiation from the new scanners. I appreciate the right to opt out, but there are several problems with the system currently in place - the first being that most people will choose the health risk over the enhanced pat-downs, which will increase long-term cancer rates and consequently healthcare costs that burden all taxpayers. Secondly, if the alternative to exposing yourself to radiation is to be groped and assumed guilty until proven innocent seems both unnecessary and perverse. Metal detectors and standard pat-downs (upon triggering of the metal detectors) seems sufficient. THe public outcry over the imaging/privacy of the new scans will overshadow the outcry over health concerns, but please do not interpret this as the privacy being the bigger concern. The health risks are far too important to sweep under the carpet here. To my knowledge no independent long-term studies on the safety of these new machines has been conducted, which is absurd, given that there are several medical reports of the health risks associated with cumulative ionizing radiation exposure. Please re-evaluate your position on these new measures to ensure long-term, big-picture safety rather than short-term terrorism-propaganda paranoia safety.

Good for you. Enough is enough.

I will not fly from or through airports with these scanners, nor while TSA is conducting invasive pat-downs.

This is a little to much!!! Let's have a little more common sense, this is ridiculous!

one cannot meaningfully consent nor decline the "pat-down" procedure as an alt to the x-ray screening, so this is forced assault. Also, no parent can meaningfully give consent for their child to be scanned or frisked. If they let a TSA official touch their child, then both parent and TSA agent are guilty of a sex crime against a child.

My fourteen year old daughter and her best friend will be spending Easter break with her grandmother in Orlando this spring. There is no way that I will allow either one of these children to be subjected to potentially harmful radiation or possibly touched in their private areas by any TSA Screener. I'll drive them from Buffalo to Orlando and back again before I let that happen.

I will not allow myself to be scanned or searched without a reasonable cause. I will not fly until these practices stop.

I haven't flown since the mid 90's, I haven't needed to, and I certainly will refuse to fly again until the TSA is disbanded.

I may just have a bout of incontinence when the TSA agent is doing their full body pat down. I can live with a ruined pair of pants.

Until your security actually targets people who can actually hurt me, I find them to be as laughable as the mall cop. Just because this technology is the new buzzword doesn't preclude the TSA from thoroughly testing and evaluating it. Also, most people who travel do so not to destroy the very planes they fly on, but to get from one place to another. Start to see PEOPLE and HONESTY and that's what you'll get.

No wonder tourism is down in the US. Why would anyone want to come here and be treated like this?

Scanners don't actually stop terrorists. Any terrorist who makes it to the airport has already won anyway. These machines are theater meant to make people feel safer while not actually doing anything except violating peoples constitutional right against unreasonable search and seizure. I'll be taking the train.

Israel.

We need to use Israel's and England's standards of talking with people NOT the raditation scanners. Let Congress walk through these scanners everytime they fly

Have the terrorists won? Have they succeeded in paralyzing us, our business, our freedoms, our way of life? Exactly what is our government protecting us from, if it is our very government who is violating our constitutional rights as US citizens?

As a frequent flier with status on many airlines, I have large concerns about safety and privacy. I am not a criminal, and should not be treated like one. Please focus on the the cause, not the symptoms.

I was directed to go thru the Xray machine without knowing what they were doing, forced to strike the cheesecake pose & then told that my body image "failed" and I ALSO had to be groped! And YES I am one of those quarter of American women who have been sexually assaulted/abused, as a child and I can tell you this was a VERY traumatic experience. I told them I didn't want strangers touching me and they told me they had to do it. They also told me they HAD to touch "sensitive areas". I argued, yelled, and finally submitted - sound familiar? Just like my sexual abuser, in the end I had to give in, and I cried while they were doing it. Bastards. This is insanity and will not stop any sort of terrorism and is completely unnecessary to use on people who are obviously no-where near any sort of risk group. This is insanity and it needs to be stopped. What about unreasonable searches and seizures, of our dignity. Just because they have invested in these machines already is no reason they need to continue to use them.

I refuse to fly into the US, even on a connecting flight, because of the fraud your government is perpetrating in the name of safety. I cannot understand how a nation founded on freedom has allowed this to happen, and it is my fervent belief that the security 'industry' is getting rich for no good reason by terrifying travellers into submission.

If enough of us refuse to fly rather than be physically groped, airlines will suffer, the effect on the economy will be devastating, and TSA personnel at all levels simply won't be needed....sorry about loss of job, John.

This is ridiculous and should be stopped immediately.

These strip-search scanners and groping pat-downs are unethical and unconstitutional. They're also unnecessary and absurd. That is clear to me after studying the facts surrounding the events of 9/11, and the many ways in which we've been lied to and manipulated through fear to give up our rights in the name of (so-called) increased security. Enough of the madness already!

We're tired of being treated like criminals.

I don't agree with the TSA's invasive methods used to catch "terrorists." So please respect people's privacy.

The TSA needs to actually provide security, not harass the American public!

These procedures will do less to protect our country and more to alienate its population.

Security shouldn't be about humiliating the secured, it should be about protecting them. Isrealify this system.

NO more flying until these unacceptable, medically dangerous and unconstitutional searches are eliminated.

I'm with Ben,

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.-Ben Franklin

I don't accept the need to be viewed naked or groped by a stranger no matter how much you try to make me afraid. I am not.

I will not fly again as long as I am going to be groped or subjected to nude scanning.

I will continue to urge the general public to not fly, killing the airline industry until you see our right to privacy.

This organization has done this to themselves.

This is disgusting. Let us all get together and tell government how powerful the public can be.

These measures do not make us demonstrably safer. They simply make travel more unpleasant and degrading, and put too much power in the hands of the TSA agents, who are too easily tempted to abuse it. This is not freedom.

Take a hint from the Israelis and get some effective, non-invasive, non-dehumanizing tactics.

Any trip that I can do in a car in under 24 hours, I now drive instead of fly. How many out there are like me? How much money are the airlines losing due to false security?

“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” - Ben Franklin

This does not promote security!

The well-known inability of these techniques and technologies to detect devices hidden in body cavities makes their utility against concerted terrorist activity ineffective, and therefore a waste of money that could be put to better use elsewhere. The trade of effectiveness versus infringement of personal rights and dignity plus the unknown long-term medical effects clearly supports termination of this program and reallocation of the funds. This waste of funds and effort, combined with the reduction of personal freedoms is providing exactly the result that the terrorists desire. Let's not let them win!

I will no longer fly until these conditions and policy are changed. I will encourage others not to fly.

This is an unbelievable and unacceptable invasion of privacy!

Israel keeps itself safe without stripping passengers of their clothes or their dignity.

I will not allow any stranger to molest me, not even if they wear a TSA uniform.

I'd rather take the (infinitesimally small) increased safety risk and retain my personal privacy.

A choice between radiation exposure and personal violation by a stranger is not a choice.

I have canceled multiple trips because of these measures. I refuse to be treated like a criminal for a false sense of security.

I don't believe the act of flying is probable cause to search...just saying.

What makes the safety and ethical concerns all the more tragic is that many security experts believe that this is just "security theater" -- the illusion of accomplishing something -- and does not actually make us more secure. The best defense against terrorists is still old fashioned detective work and communication with other agencies. The TSA's actions are both pointless and wrong.

Thanks Giving I will be taking the train - I have had enough.

TSA are raping our rites away and will make us sick. Radiation causes cancer!

If a terrorist is determined, molesting innocent passengerrs will not stop them.

We are human beings, not living weapons, and we are to be treated as such.

You've just crossed the line from "unbearable" to "unconstitutional."

Give up the expensive security theater and do something real and effective. Fear is your only successful product and we're not buying it.

Being groped against one's will is SEXUAL ASSAULT. What is wrong with you people?

Profiling was a lot more acceptable to being viewed naked or grouped by strangers. I will never agree to either.

will not fly until all scanners are removed and strip searches are stopped.

This does nothing to protect our safty and simply humiliates citizens. I'm happy to trade a slight amount of security in order to travel with dignity. The TSA is completely out of control.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

As a physician, it scares me that we'd expose millions of people to this untested technology. Especially when it's so ineffective.

I will NOT fly again until something is done about the out of control TSA... Frisking 3 year olds and Nuns is Ridiculous....

The fact that the machines miss items stored in body cavities AND miss powders, liquids, or items not clinging to the body, makes this a complete (and outrageously expensive) farce. Is the Office of Homeland Security implementing mandatory body cavity searches next?
Or maybe lots of female, middle-aged schoolteacher American citizens like me *have* attempted in-flight bombings and it's just not making the news? Is that why we all are subjected to this?

How about using the money towards real intelligence instead of on pointless measures that only punish law-abiding taxpayers? Maybe something value-added for a change? Stop being in denial for once and treating citizens like they are idiots!

I fly regularly for work. I have a family. The radiation exposure's consequences for me are not known. You force me into weekly pat downs. You're lawyering is disgusting Janet.

TSA has been getting a lot of bad press lately, and rightfully so. They need to find a better balance between security and privacy and stop treating the majority of law abiding citizens as criminals.

Dear Janet Napolitano, et all (President Obama): If the TSA "professionals" that are hired were PAID A LIVING WAGE, maybe they would learn how to behave like professionals AND make appropriate decisions and use critical thinking skills. If you think you are going to get qualified people to work for /hr and deal w/ the public and their attitudes, you are living under a rock and are clueless about managing and motivating people!!!

We will not sacrifice our liberty and our dignity for the illusion of security.