Odd you should mention that: people feel differently about different levels of screening.

Though I doubt anyone here will believe it, when TSA only employeed WTMD and HHMD, this was the same reaction I received from more than a few passenges. They alarmed the WTMD, needed to be screened by HHMD, and started on how they were being treated like criminals. I saw grown men cry (women too), simply becuse they were going to be wanded.

At the same time, I have had men tell me they could care less if there were patted down with the new procedure, and men and women demand to use the AIT.

My point is this: there will always be those who claim that screening makes them feel like a criminal. And when you implement new procedures, it all shifts, but not in one way.

Most of those with metal implants demand the AIT, because they have correctly learned how to divest their property and avoid a pat down (they were patted down even with the HHMD because, surprise, it would alarm). To them, they feel less like a criminal with the way TSA does things now. But I doubt few here will accept that.

So when someone tells me they don't want "to feel like felons every time [they] walked through the airport", I have to wonder, under what type of security screening are they talking about? The old way with WTMD/HHMD or the new way with AIT/SPD?