I'm a little freaked out today. I am realizing that I am about to lose a key piece of my right to travel, as I will not submit to a strip search or sexual assault to get on an airplane. Aside from the people in my life travel is what I love most in this world and I don't intend to let go without a fight.
It's time to rally, and I think educating people is the best thing we can do.
I suggest we form action teams for major airport (I'm living in LA right now so I'll be part of the LAX crew). We need to go to the landside parts of the airports and educate people as they are about to get strip searched or groped. T-shirts, literature, talking to people... we need to get our message out there and we need to do it NOW before this new patdown policy takes root nationwide.
Does anyone know the regulations for this sort of thing in airports? Or will it vary by city ordinance? I'll start finding out for LAX. I think it would be best to do this in teams of people and have a planned, coordinated strategy for how to interact with TSA, police and other airport authorities.
Who's in?
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Someone proposed the great idea of putting resources here in the thread's first post so that people don't have to sift through the dozens of pages:
I just compiled a post on my blog that could be used as talking points when discussing the scanner with other travelers. You can find that post here:
http://www.savvytravel.net/2010/10/5...rch-and-grope/
The sites that people have built to rally us and change public opinion are:
http://www.dontscan.us
http://www.dontscan.me
http://www.nudeoscope.com
http://www.dontgrope.us
http://www.dontstrip.us
www.thousandsstandingaround.com
Get your t-shirts here! All proceeds donated to the ACLU, courtesy of
MikeMpls:
www.cafepress.com/scanners