Originally Posted by
swag
If I'm a TSA checkpoint supervisor, here's my plan.
Business as usual. If enough people require pat-downs that there's a backlog, I put those folks into separate lines so it doesn't back up the folks willing to go thru the scanners. And I have separate lines for the opt outs vs the folks who either alarm the scanner or can't use the scanner due to disability - and then give priority for the pat downs to the latter group That way, the only ones getting delayed by the opt-outs are the opt-outs themselves. Result is no negative PR from either having to shut down the scanners or delaying the "innocent". Folks who miss their flight becasue they chose to opt out won't get much sympathy, sadly.
I thought about that; however, there are plenty of people that legitimately cannot pass through WBI without requiring a pat down. So in your line of 20+ protesters that theTSA is punishing by taking their time, now have to queue up anyone in a wheelchair or with a metal (ex: hip) implant.
How is that going to look when grandma/pa misses her flight home to thanksgiving because the TSA was too slow ? She submitted to WBI after all. You sure can't put her ahead of the line of the queue either without an uproar.