Originally Posted by
BearX220
I'm not talking about your sort of case at all. A small incidence of opt-outs, whether for medical or political reasons, does not choke the system. (When the backscatter devices were deployed I always opted out myself.) I am taking issue with people who favor mass protest action that deliberately paralyzes the system. it is one thing, and a fine thing, to avoid the devices on grounds like yours. It is a dumb thing to wreck the functioning of a whole checkpoint in the mistaken belief it will make dumb security go away.
First: You believe people shouldn't make waves. Check. Not everyone agrees. I've been trying to think of any important patriotic figure in any country whose philosophy was that people shouldn't make waves.
Second: When the NOS lines get bogged down, they run people through the metal detectors.
More practically, however, except at JFK T1 I was NOS-free and grope-free in the US for over a year due to the Übermenschen lane. As somebody noted above, that's what pretty much shut down opt-out day, and as more and more people get pushed into the Übermenschen lane, the need to opt out will be negligible.