Since TSA has expanded, and since the beginning of Backscatter and MMW, we have tried to SO to WMD or asked for pat downs instead of being funneled through the machines.

We have also cut our air travel by 75% or more in most recent years.

We are not business travelers like so many here on Flyertalk. We are your average US citizen who used to travel for family and vacation reasons. Not so much anymore, thanks to invasion of our personal space and erosion to our civil freedoms.

In JAX I was called out of a WMD as a random (buzzer), and I know it wasn't because I set off the detector, it was because I have breasts, and the one who "called me" back for the random did it to give his buddy a look. I know it because of the eye contact made as he called his friend over, and the sadistic grin. And yet, I cooperated because I knew that if these creeps want they can make my life even worse of a hell for that day. I cooperated, but all I wanted to do was give the first guy a well deserved spit in the face.

Our friends and neighbors continue to chant "as long as it makes us safer" and "well, you just have to include the hassle of security in your travel plans."

It is discouraging to realize that otherwise intelligent folks do not see how our constitutional rights have been eroded under the false umbrella of "flying safe."

We watch many families and elders get pushed around by the TSA at security gates from PHX, to MIA, JAX and JFK, and just feel so sad that this is our national chant now: "whatever they want, I will do, because I know it is to make us all safe."

We are flying out tomorrow, (if weather permits) and we are really sorry to be facing the security theater yet again.
And yet again, we will do what it takes to resist these tactics and to stand up for what our military have sought so hard to protect: our liberty and our constitution.