You, National Opt Out Day and We Won’t Fly are garnering enormous interest from the mainstream media. We’re working on upping the resistance another notch for next week. Stay tuned!
CNN: Growing backlash against TSA body scanners, pat-downs
Washington Post: Airport ‘pat-downs’ cause growing passenger backlash
Reuters asks “Are new security screenings affecting your decision to fly?”. With 18,000 votes, 97% say they won’t fly!
At Change.org, you can sign a petition against the scanners. See top right.
The Philadelphia Inquirer followed up its previous puff piece with something a little more accurate: Growing anxiety over airport pat-downs and scanners
Economist blogger says Americans are too docile and submissive yet declares his intentions to submit to the scanners. Irony strikes!
Even the B.C. cartoon has a comment on the debate!
i was quietly pissed off before when having to put up, along with 300 million other Americans, with the government assumption that I’m guilty – poking my stuff, taking off my shoes, hurry up, show us your papers – and now more radiation they claim is safe – NOPE, not gonna do it. Not gonna fly, stopped short hops after 9/11 – now NADA. Not guilty, not a terrorist, don’t have a bomb, don’t have a gun, don’t have a knife or a nailfile or scissors – just pointed wit and had enough. US government screws airline industry. Too bad, it was a pretty clever safe way to get from here to there. Not now. No more bullsiht.