Were any of us accused of the most serious of felonies, our Fifth Amendment rights would remain intact. Clearly, the TSA forces air travelers to surrender Fourth Amendment rights just to travel efficiently. I believe it's time we at flyertalk.com organized and expressed ourselves in some more meaningful manner in regard to ending the WBI, enhanced pat downs, and other clearly illegal abuses we are facing. I’m not talking about opt out boycotts, I’d like to support the end of this outrage in a more substantive manner.

Last January, before the scanners were supposed to have been implemented, I was one of the first to report having opted out and having received a punitive pat-down. So I set up a Google news alert for "TSA Scanner' and the news just pours into my inbox. From most of the recent reading I've done, it is obvious the public has had enough. Almost all of the news I’ve read concerns expressions of outrage and occurrences of TSA abuse. I give the enhanced pat down and WBI machines another year, hopefully less, but the government needs incentive to act to end its egregious abuse of the constitutional rights of air travelers.

So, how to proceed? Perhaps a supportable suit has been filed against Homeland Security and it requires our contributions. If not, certainly someone here has the knowledge and will to start an appropriate legal action. As an expat living in Europe and the Middle East, I am a little hamstrung in regard to leading the action - it is simply impracticable for me. But I would happily contribute more than a few of my dollars to any serious action to end this abuse and I don’t think I’m unique in this regard.