Originally Posted by
Ysitincoach
Hence why the TSA just shut down the scanners on National Opt Out Day, Thanksgiving, day after Super Bowl leaving IND, and seemingly any other big event.
Bravo for the fellow opt out support. Now say there were 19 of you, perhaps a collegiate sports team? What better team building than to all opt out.
Which exemplifies the cynicism and hypocrisy of the whole system. If it's such a "key" technology that is more secure than WTMD's, then you should never bypass it without resorting to a patdown.
But if the scanners and the patdowns can just be bypassed whenever things get crowded or backed up, then it must not be that critical and therefore it's not needed at all. This is what seemed to be missing from coverage of Opt-out Day, that one final step of journalistic inquiry.