Originally Posted by
WillCAD
If you choose to give up your right to be secure in your person, and allow government actors to both view and touch the most intimate, sensitive, and personal parts of your body, you have that right. Enjoy it. Imagine candle light and soft music while the TSO's fingers gently caress your testicles, slide smoothly into your waistband, and run professionally through your hair.
You also have the right to NOT allow such personal violations.
The fact that they un-Constitutionally violate your privacy in other ways does not make the visual or physical violations meaningless.
I don't opt-out so I don't have your experience with the candlelight images. I invest 15 seconds in the millimeter wave scanner and move on with my life. I give up more privacy in the change room or sauna at the gym.
And, for that matter, I don't consider the scanners or pat-downs violations. They are a condition of travel, not unlike buying a ticket, carrying ID, carrying a passport for overseas travel, etc...
On the scale of things that my government does that drive me crazy, millimeter wave scanners at the airport are not on the scale.