The New Dark Age

18 November, 2010 — Washington Post

[After reading the story on the man who refused to suffer the indignity of a full body scanner or what the TSA call an ‘enhanced pat down’ and was banned from flying, the Washington Post has a poll on the issue.]

Airline passengers who object to any type of physical screening are not going to fly anywhere, the head of the Transportation Security Administration told a congressional committee Tuesday.

Consumer rights activist Ralph Nader has called the measures — the pat-downs and the scanners — “extremely voyeuristic and intrusive.” An Ashburn man is organizing a national “opt-out day” for the day before Thanksgiving. He is urging travelers to decline to use the full-body scanners and demand enhanced pat-downs to increase awareness of the technique.

This is a non-scientific user poll. Results are not statistically valid and cannot be assumed to reflect the views of Washington Post users as a group or the general population.