Originally Posted by WillCAD

No, use of the AIT doesn't prevent a rubdown. But it significantly reduces the possibility. Opting out guarantees a full-body rubdown, whereas chances of a rubdown with AIT are maybe one in three.

Still, I will not let them touch me. Whether I alarm the AIT, or they choose me at "random", I will absolutely, categorically refuse the rubdown.

This is my choice. I am not meekly submitting, and I choose it with my eyes wide open as to the civil rights violation represented by AIT, and the radiation risk posed by MMW. But I will not be sexually assaulted, no matter what.



I doubt TSAs word that nobody sees the AIT image, and I'm not entirely certain that those on FT who say that the ATR software doesn't even create the image in the first place. Yes, it certainly is possible that it uses the raw scan returns to do its analysis instead of a finished image, but that doesn't mean that the original portion of the code doesn't still create and save the image for the perv in the box, as a backup or a form of resolution. Given TSAs record of spinning things to the point of outright lies, I tend to doubt or disbelieve anything they say these days.

I have always chosen to go through the AIT, despite how disgusting and despicable I found them, because I prefer to be peeped and have my Constitutional rights violated over being sexually assaulted. Perhaps it's my personal hangups, or a form of latent homophobia, but the idea of another man rubbing my entire body and touching my genitals makes my skin crawl far worse than the AIT peepshow. This is my choice, which I make fully informed and with my eyes open. I am not a sheeple who mindlessly accepts the load of fertilizer that the gubment has shoveled about how these civil rights violations are necessary, or legal, or safe; I know they're lying, but for the moment, until the country wakes up and AIT and full-body rubdowns are limited to cases with clear probable cause or articulable suspicion, I will take the AIT option over the rubdown.

So far, I haven't had to cease flying, but I will if they try to sexually assault me.