I can understand the pilots and attendants, particularly, not wanting to continuously go thru’ the scanner - that radiation builds up.
But the ‘opt outs’ then get taken to the “file room” and sexually molested - hands grope every part of the anatomy - INCLUDING YOUNG CHILDREN. One mother was just able to stop MALE TSA’s from groping her 10 month and her 8 yr old DAUGHTERS! So a female did the ‘exam’ - actually groped these little ones on their vaginas.
What's a parent to do? Subject your children to xray - which you have NO assurance as to strength - of having them molested?
I'm afraid I'd be in jail for assaulting the molesters.
Now Israel has the tightest of tight security systems - have for many years after Entebbe. But they do NOT grope people.
This will be stopped - but not by us law abiding citizens of this country, It will be stopped by the Muslims who will scream bloody murder. (Of course, it would be typical if this intrusiveness were banned ONLY for Muslims!)
With the scan machines out in the public for many months now, you’d THINK the X-ray flux question would be public information. A fair comparison would be between the X-ray dose from the scan machines and the X (and cosmic) -ray dose gotten from simply flying in the upper atmosphere.
Since it’s explosives that are being looked for... why the heck aren’t DOGS being used. If the metal detector does not ding and Semper Fido smells nothing, then let the passenger go, no scan, no grope (er, “patdown.”) Yeah, Muslims would scream bloody murder because dog slobber is defiling.