Reply #122: I hope you (and Stinky) will accept my apologies. I didn't mean for this to be a response to

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Stinky's OP. I wholeheartedly agree with Stinky's position, and those of others here who find the TSA's policies to be a gross assault on our dignity and privacy.

I just can't understand, though, how some people can dismiss the TSA assaults on our person by saying that travelers should just choose another mode of transportation. What an absurd and clueless thing to say. Such a statement falls into the category, as already stated above, of claiming that the poor have a right to sleep under bridges.

Air travel is an integral part of our transportation system, and many people have no choice but to fly, because of time or distance constraints. Promoting the idea that passengers should endure exposure to dangerous radiation or genital groping in order to travel from point A to point B is silliness on stilts, and rises to the level of flame-bait, IMO.