Airline passengers upset by scanners and new pat-downs

Just in time for the Thanksgiving travel rush which will begin in about a week, federal air security officials are struggling to reassure the rising number of outraged fliers and airline workers facing these new screening procedures.Many view these new anti-terroist security screenings as invasive and harmful. Across the country airline passengers are being forced to endure full-body image detectors and or probing pat-downs. Top federal security officials have stated that these security procedures are necessary sacrifices that passengers need to endure to ward off terror attacks. Homeland Security Security Janet Napolitano said, "It's all about security and everybody recognizing their role." The flury of criticism from the American public continues though and has caught federal officials off guard.

At the San Diego airport, a software engineer posted an internet blog item that said he was ejected off a flight and threatened with a fine and lawsuit for refusing a groin check after turning down a full-body scan. The passenger, John Tyner told a federal Transportation Security Administration worker, "If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested." (Para 6) The protest that he posted on the internet quickly became a web sensation. Travel business groups, civil liberties activist and pilots are raising concerns about procedures themselves and the delays caused by passengers who refuse these new procedures. Many travel managers are greatly concerned that TSA is going too far and without proper procedures and sufficient oversight. so in my opinion what this boils down to is that many passengers feel voilated by thes new security measures that the TSA is taking while others just accept it as a necessary evil to help keep our airways safe. I guess that I fall in with the group that feels though it is invasive it is probably a necessary evil to help keep our airlines safe. Sthen my question is, what is you take on these new airline security procedures, and do you feel that they are necessary?

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