I fixed your post.

Bruce

Expect to get the "usual" pat-down... squeezing, running along the hem lines, checking of the areas, etc. If they see clothes, they see threat, and check. All you can do is remove cloth/material to search, or be as loose as your comfort level permits.

While I support this guys protest 100%, I have to say the choice of "SCREW BIG SIS" as a slogan probably carries a much more lurid and troubling connotation to allot people than was it's intended message.

If you live on the Big Island of Hawaii apparently there is no enhanced pat down if you protest and wear only your bikini through the metal detector. We don't have any nudoscopes yet and, (unlike what the sticky thread here states,) we also have NO nudoscopes in the Honolulu International Airport Interisland terminal. Those are only in the International terminal. So, fliers from Hilo, Hawaii going to Oahu, or beyond to other destinations outside the state, only pass through the metal detector. Of course, they do get the "enhanced" pat down if they set off the metal detector or are chosen at "random" for a pat down as I was the last time I flew in July for surgery on Oahu.

"Mom, daughters wear swimsuits through security check
The members of the Garber family are not terrorists. They don't want to crash any airliners.

They also don't want to be touched or harassed every time they board a plane. So when Hasya Garber, 12, began learning about the nationwide backlash over the Transportation Security Administration's "enhanced pat-downs," for those who decline the advanced imaging body scans, she jokingly suggested wearing a swimsuit for her upcoming trip to Indiana.

One thing led to another, and at 3 p.m. Tuesday, her mother, Tina Garber, stepped onto the curb of Hilo International Airport wearing a bikini artfully concealed beneath her black pants and black shirt.....Peter Petersen was among the amused spectators who watched the Garbers step out of the airport bathroom in their swimwear. He was there to see his wife Grace off to Alaska. Petersen approved of the family's unorthodox statement.

"Go for it. I'm all for it," he said. "I don't like what they're doing at TSA. I know it's for a good reason. But I think it's just a little too much."

The Garbers entered the security line; Tina Garber appeared to chat briefly with the TSA screeners as she proceeded through the checkpoint. She went through the metal detector, stepped back out, lifted her baseball cap and walked through again.

And that was it. Nobody's junk was touched, and nobody was arrested.

"People stared a lot," Tina Garber said by phone, adding that the screeners were "pretty supportive" of their message.

"We're just a small regional airport," said one TSA screener who said he's never seen anybody walk through in a bikini before."

http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/...ws/local01.txt

I'm quite happy with the coverage my local newspaper has been giving this issue. A major front page article on Tuesday and another one inside the first section. Then today this article was the lead article along with another article detailing the Hawaii chapter of the ACLU's leaflet hand out today at Honolulu International Airport. It is particularly important that Hawaii citizens who live on the neighbor islands be made aware of these invasive gropes as we bear the brunt of the new rules because we have NO choice but to fly if we need to leave our home island for medical attention, vacation, business, etc on Oahu or the Mainland USA. We don't have the luxury of driving to see a medical specialist and, with the ongoing emergency situation regarding the dearth of physicians on the neighbor islands, many of us fly often to Oahu for medical attention, surgery, etc. and even to visit friends, family on other islands we cannot choose to drive there.