My husband has. TSO was NOT amused and made him stop.

ETA: I was not actually there so I'm not sure how it played out. I only know he was on his way to the sandbox and felt it was ridiculous/asinine/offensive that he was being treated as a terrorist while on way there.

Organized picketing in front of the terminal: the kind of thing pilots and flight attendants do when they want better working conditions. The fact that they are organized gets them out of some of the abuses the TSA sets upon the rest of us. United we stand, divided we fall...and right now we are divided.

I'd happily pitch in $500 if someone were to organize a nationwide anti-TSA non-profit organization. Hey, we have the AAA for automobiles, the Salvation Army for helping the homeless, Susan B. Komen for breast cancer, and the NRA for gun rights, why shouldn't there be something for anti-TSA?

There are anti-TSA lobbying organizations, here are three:

http://wewontfly.com/act/plan2012/
http://fttusa.org/
http://www.righttofly.org/

These are not non-profits. There are generally strict constraints on the ways that non-profits can lobby for legislative changes.

These three should merge together to form a single union. ^

I'd like to bump this back up, in light of the heavy travel period next week.

That and I need new ideas.

I always opt out, and as I am being frisked with my arms out, both my hands show the bird !

In China the frisker gently folded my fingers back into my fist, only to pop out again.

http://www.dailypaul.com/260987/new-...-and-film-week

New National Anti-TSA Campaign: Opt Out And Film Week

Opt Out! November 19-26

Make TSA work for you!

There may be some direction for protest and opt-out in the testimony ...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel...nners/1706811/

I just can't bring myself to volunteer to get molested. But the filming thing - are you allowed to film someone passing through security, or just a patdown?

Well, why don't you do what I'm going to do - observe National SDOO Week.

The rules are that you can film the checkpoint but they ask you not to film the display screens. It's on the TSA website somewhere. I personally feel you should not film people getting groped unless they're in your party, because you should respect their privacy.

I haven't been to an airport in at least two years where I could SDOO. Pretty much doesn't exist in my world.

I'd never dream of filiming someone getting patted down - was more thinking of the Mr. as he goes through the MMW for our Thanksgiving trip. Unless the MMW screen counts as a screen.

I have. They didn't notice.

Someone else on the board posted that they got some static from the TSO for it, and replied something to the effect of "You're here to infringe the Fourth Amendment, not the First."

Gonna steal that if I'm ever forced into a scanner.

I'm asthmatic and allergic to practically all airborne perfumes and scents. Usually I opt out because I know what's going to happen in the box. When I get into an enclosed space and I smell any powdery scents (like those often found in deodorants/antiperspirants) I start coughing. Profusely. It seriously sounds like I have TB. I always warn the TSA officer of this situation, but they always say "You can opt out if you want, but you'll be subjected to a "vigorous" patdown. My last trip I was sick of it. So I went full throttle.

Last month I went from SMF to LAX and then from LAX to SYD, in each instance I was put into the cancer box, I started coughing profusely. Because I was unable to cover my mouth as I was holding "the position" I coughed for 5 seconds straight. In SMF, the three passengers all waiting to go in behind me protested and refused until the cancer box was "sterilized." They closed the Body Scanner and let those pax through the WTMD. Uhhh.....you're welcome!

In LAX, I coughed all over the TSA officers. They also closed down the cancer box. And one went immediately on break...I assume to do a whore's bath with Purell.

Appropriate behaviour for a 15 year old. All you guys planning these sitins ( thats so 1960s) please post your iTins and airports here so the working folks can skip around you please, Appreciate it.