I noticed that the moderator of the column, Andrea Sachs, says she doesn't mind the scans, writing in part:
I walk into the chamber, lift my arms like a swan taking flight, and exit.
It would appear that she has not yet realized that what she is actually doing is raising her arms in surrender to terrorists.
Another person wrote:
Just wanted to weigh in with my experiences with the dreaded machines: on the two occasions I was asked to go through them I had no problem submitting to them but like the other writer I found them to take a lot longer than needed, esp in winter. Wound up going through the machine 5 times and then eventually having to get pat down about 3 more times before they even let me through. I too fear sometime in the not to distant future it won't be optional.
One of the clerk-participants here says multiple scans don't happen.
Christopher Elliott, no fan of the TSA, believes that soon the scans will not be optional.
