Originally Posted by fromYXU
If they ask you to spin, you spin. If they ask you to jump, you jump. If they ask you to take your shoes off, you take your shoes off. TSA will not discuss alternatives at the check points. Their demands often do not make sense to us, but they make sense to them. I have seen them past the wand up and down the legs of people in shorts!
The alternatives are not to fly or more secondary searches. Its your choice. When the war on terrorism stops being reactive, maybe more common sense will prevail. I am waiting for the laptop bomber to really mess with things.
As
bdschobel once commented: "protect the empire, protect the empire".