As you head out the door today to catch your flight, let's think about how the folks participating in National Opt-Out Day will measure the success of their protest.They will be successful if, after arriving at the airport extra, extra early...
* they wait in the screening line for hours.
* they get patted down.
* their loved ones get patted down.
* they eat airport food all day.
* they miss their flight and cause others to miss theirs.
* they sleep in the airport while the TSA workers finish their shifts and head home to bed.
Maybe these Opt-Outers can celebrate with a piece of extra pepperoni from the Sbarro's on Concourse D.
Mission accomplished.
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Sanity prevails. It was a bust.
As of 5 p.m. Wednesday, Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport said 39 (out of 47,000) fliers opted out of the scanners. All continued to their flights after being screened, while at LAX, there were 113 opt-outs across eight terminals, which was less than 1 percent of the total travelers screened.
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3 comments:
While the idea and spirit of the protest I think are ridiculous, you do realize it is more than the 20%ers that are upset about the current TSA screening measures and are planning to participate in the protest. I mean, demeaning it does nothing really. The same could be said of nearly any protest. Go to a protest, get hot and sweaty, have tear gas shot at you, have dogs attack you, get beat up by cops, yeah, you go right ahead and protest. Those pesky civil rights activists back in the 60s. Damn fools putting themselves through potential injury and discomfort just to make things better in the future, how dumb!
What was Rosa Parks thinking when she got herself arrested and spent the night in jail while the cops who arrested her went home after their shifts?
Allen...I'm aware that there are plenty of of liberals who are willing to miss their flights and spend the night in the airport in order to be patted down. My previous post criticized the Republicans who felt it was okay when Bush was President but who now see a political opportunity with a Democrat in the White House.
You DO realize that they are opting for the procedure that they are protesting against, don't you?
Yes, Carlos, Rosa Parks protest against racial discrimination is akin to asking to be patted down by a TSA agent. And you're Martin Luther King.
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