[sinkspur]

The "government issued ID" requirement was bad enough, but it has gotten worse and worse - pat downs and strip searches, checked luggage searches, etc. I simply refuse to submit myself to their nonsense.

The searches are conducted by government employees at the request of the Transportation Department.

The airlines have nothing to do with them, and, in fact, would like to eliminate them.

[garyb]

I just came back from my first post September 11th flight. Round Trip Lansing, MI to Las Vegas via O'Hare/Chicago on United.

All went fairly well, until the return trip at McCarren International. There, I arrived at 6:20AM for an 9:15 scheduled departure. I needed just about every minute of it. The delay in getting to the ticket counter was 100 minutes. The delay in getting through security was 25 minutes.

By the time I took the tram to the D concourse and then walked to the gate, the plane was boarding.

I'm going to cancel my scheduled trip to Washington DC in May rather than go through this stuff again.

[Liberty Belle]

I don't care who is behind it - I will not submit to it. I will not pay money to be treated like a criminal and like cattle.

If some way cannot be found to allow people to protect themselves without strip-searching everyone and assuming everyone is a criminal, I simply will not participate.

I go out of my way to be as free as possible in my daily life. I will continue to do this as we lose more and more of our liberties...will you? It is not easy or convenient, but it is what I must do for the sake of my own conscience.