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Our Open Letter To the TSA and the Aviation Industry

We, the undersigned citizens of the world, will no longer accept being dehumanized, humiliated and abused in the name of security. We do not want our children strip searched and our wives groped. To prevent further degradations of our dignity and freedom, we vow to stop flying until all our demands are met.

We have two demands:

It is possible to provide a safe and enjoyable aviation experience without treating passengers like terrorists and sheep. Until we are approached with respect, we will boycott flying.

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A selection of the comments received thus far:

"Until this absurd invasion of personal privacy is rolled back and the people responsible for it removed from their positions, flying is no longer even a considered option."

"I understand the need for safety but violating the millions of innocent people who travel everyday is not the answer. I SAY NO TO YOU VIEWING MY NAKED BODY. I SAY NO TO YOU GROPING ME & A HUGE NO TO YOU TOUCHING MY CHILD'S "PRIVATE" PARTS. You DO NOT have to touch my child's penis in order to keep flights safe. I will not hand over my freedom & rights out of fear. I don't believe this has anything to do with Muslim terrorism. I believe this is abut the government terrorizing the people to hand over even our most obvious & basic rights. The right to not be molested by government workers. I'm not mentally challenged; nor am I a sheep. If the public allows this blatant abuse of our rights to continue I don't even want to imagine what they'll do to us next."

"TSA, do not continue to delude yourselves that you are our masters. We are your masters as the People of the United States of America. By Almighty God you will know our might and in my lifetime I will see the TSA de-funded and all of you ex-Taco Bell employees back to folding burritos for minimum wage if they will even take you back."

"No one has the right to touch and violate my body. It is illegal!!! You can keep your airlines, I'm never flying again!! Your all a bunch of perverts! How dare you people!! You disgust me!!! Sexual Molestation is not making me feel safe to fly. I've never been touched by a man like that, and I sure as Hell am not going to be touched by a stranger like that!!!!"

"I will not fly until I can do it with dignity!"

"When the TSA wants to start showing up to work naked, then they can see me naked! Enough! I want to know how many bomb have been found by a body scanner? How many have gotten through regardless of scanners? Stop trying create a false sense of safety with these humiliating measures."

"These naked body scanners and enhanced pat downs are an invasion of personal privacy, disrespectful, inane, ineffective, and dangerous. I join with a growing number of Americans which will extend to include multi-millions of people, in demanding that this practice be repealed and personal privacy restored. I am outraged."

"I flew out of Sea Tac airport on November 6 and was bullied into the scanner. The TSA guard ordered me to empty everything out of my pockets including paper, I asked why and he said just do it. He then told me to step into the scanner, never telling me what it was about and demanded I raise my hands. I did not realize what was going on until it was too late. This is bull shit to bully a citizen in this manner. To say I am furious is an understatement. I guess this is welcome to the new police state. I am a 60 year old man and hardly a security risk. I am also a cancer survivor and I am upset about being exposed to radiation without my consent."

"You need to do a much better job on sensitivity training for your employees. When it comes to dealing with passengers with medical implants, the elderly or those who are wheelchair bound, TSA screeners are insensitive and ignorant."

What the TSA is doing is wrong.. and it is a violation of our 4th Amendment rights!

No.

I rarely fly, but I never will again. I will drive where I need to go from now on. I will not be treated like a common criminal. I will not succumb to this humiliation and violation of my rights. Until full body scanners and enhanced pat downs are no longer used as standard screening for passengers, I will never go near an airport.

TSA, I rather be blown up than to be searched by you.

This is true terrorism. The only terrorists I can be SURE to encounter are my own government.

We will not tolerate a police state.

As if the airport experience wasn't bad enough... You will NOT see me fly until something is done about this disaster the TSA calls 'security'

From this day forward I, nor any member of my family - ALL of whom are lifelong American citizens - will fly on a plane as long as the ridiculous body scanners and body searches are in use. You have no right to see or touch my body, and you most definitely have NO right to touch my children. You are despicable people and embarrassments to America. You have criminalized law abiding Americans, but I will not allow you to criminalize or humiliate me or my family. I say NO - NO to the disgusting, criminal acts you, the tsa, carry out in the name of 'security.'

Let's please get back to an orderly and respectful order in our airports! We don't want to choose between radiation and molestation in order to have convenient transportation.

What the TSA is doing is wrong.. and it is a violation of our 4th Amendment rights! This is a control g government that is slowly taking my rights away I pay taxes in this country and feel that my hard earned money is being thrown away to you guys shame on those of you who think you have the right to take my rights away,shame on mr. Pistole, and Janet Napolitano, shame on president Obama for allowing this to happen. We voted for him for change and the only change there has been is the person not the policy the only change is now our right are taken away by democrats instead of republicans.

I refuse to fly until body scans and pat downs are ceased. Why should I subject myself to humiliation and a loss of privacy when I can simply travel by car, train, or ship?

Stop humiliating Americans

You have let them win. We have lost our freedom and our dignity.

End the dehumanizing of our citizens. Remeber the past, before it's to late.

THIS IS ABUSE!! MANY other options for safety! No % of bombed planes and fear justify this! We are not the ENEMY!!!

We are not criminals we are US citizens. And as citizens we have certain rights given to us by our constitution. One such right is the right against illegal search and seizure. You have no reason to search my person as I have committed no crime or given any reason to believe that I would. As Benjamin Franklin said "Those who would give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety". Who is the TSA to think they are smarter than Ben Franklin?

You stop this allowing perverted tsa employees to harass innocent citizens--while ignoring real tererorists.

Body scans are just disgusting, it breaches the most basic intimacy right.

Boycott flying,make the TSA & the Federal Government stop the PC stupity and start profiling. This is how poor the Fed. Gov. is when have they done anything under budget,on time. Watch out for big government,Patick Henry had it right!

Your body scans are unhealthy and harmful. Radiation no matter how small can cause CANCER

In response to an attempt to protect the american people a side effect of liberty revocation has occurred. It would be more than appreciated by the liberty loving beings of this democratic nation to find another alternative to "protect" our "safety". Reverting to the non-invasive wands is one of many suggestions. Having been a victim of this search I can say what I feel is anything but safe. Humiliated with the fear I have no more individual rights has greatly added to my already strong fear of flying. Had I been notified that there was even a change in safety protocol, It is probable I would have changed my travel plans. I know you have an active power and will use it bring liberty and individual freedoms back to this once great Nation of The United States of America. Thank you for your time, -American Citizen and Hope to be once again Airline Passenger

The new rules are rediculous and the people will regain their liberty.

I will not submit to full body scanners or enhanced body search and will fill a 4th admen violation law suit. For the airline industry, I will not use your services until these programs are stopped.

Our police officer do not even treat criminals like this. They do not grope them during pat downs & they certainly do not do full body scans because that would be an infringement of their rights. What about our rights?

DO NOT PENALIZE WHITE/BLACK/ASIAN PEOPLE FOR A MUSLIM PEOPLE PROBLEM. A LOGICAL TSA WOULD PROFILE PEOPLE BUT THE US DOES NOT USE LOGIC.

I will not be flying as long as doing so entails violating my Fourth Amendment rights.

This is out of control and violates our 4th Amendment rights: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." How about we use our brains and some common sense. Start profiling!

Just another step closer to having full control over you guys, I wonder what "they" are going to do next? I will never travel on an American airline. That’s so messed up. I can’t believe some of your people will actually put up with it. Your country seems like its heading in a bad direction at least for you but defiantly not for the powerful people that control and orchestrate YOUR country. It’s only going to get worse unless everyone starts coming together. I’ll be up here smoking some weed with some friends, grown from the yard, enjoying my freedom and rights while watching yours and your country slip away on your CNN and all your other corporate controlled propaganda channels. I hope that more people will stand up for their rights like you guys do. It gives me some hope.

I HAVE CANCELLED MY FAMILY HAWAII TRIP AND WILL NOT FLY ANYWHERE UNTIL THEY REMOVE BODY SCANERS AND INVASIVE PAT DOWNS.

there simply has to be a better way to do this. I think that if you did not arrive with a gun, one should be assigned to you. Arm all the passengers.

I pledge to boycott flying in the US. If I simply must fly I will take viagra and wear a banana hammock to make the searches as uncomfortable as possible for the TSA employees. Ben Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

The airways need to stay safe, and this is anything but the way to do it.

I do not believe you really make people go trough the scanner and expose them self naked to strangers in the name of SECURITY (what ever).... And the worse part, these “security officers” watch naked children also. What has America become of? Hello child molesters. It's a Holiday for them. I wonder how likely they are be able to copy the pictures somehow and have some fun at home. You need to be ashamed of yourself to do these things. The same with these pat downs. Here again, “Sexual predator” come on and help yourself. And I don’t care if you defend your people by saying they are screened. Sure they will admit to having fun touching people in inappropriate ways if you ask them at a interview. This is not free America. This is an insult in everybody’s freedom and right of privacy.

I think if your afraid to fly because of 9/11 your a pansy. I don't want to lose my civil liberties because of a few chicken shits.

i hope the airline industry completely tanks, then we wont have to worry about planes being blown up anymore. i guess then it will be trains, then buses, then supermarkets, etc, etc, etc. The problem with this strategy is there is always another way to kill people... 20 years from now we will be getting strip searched at toll booths!

TSA hires the dumbest of the dumb...I will no longer fly under these "Nazi Regime" conditions but one thing is certain....TSA employees will suffer the wrath of these machines when they begin to develop cancer...

I think that all of you, without realizing it, have not only compromised the soul of your country for a few pieces of silver, but you have also sold out your fellow Americans. You seem to think that right and wrong changes according to who is committing certain acts. You are engaged in activity that private citizens can be arrested for all because you confuse 'patriotism' with blind obedience to the government. You have lost the sense of what it means to be true Americans. Some of you, having attained a little power, have become jack-booted thugs, just like the bad apples in a lot of law enforcement. Your website states that all the YouTube videos are 'not to be believed', but we know that your agency is covering up the bad experiences, or, at least, trying to. You don't answer to anyone, like a lot of shadow government agencies, and you are immune from any wrongdoing....for now. But law-abiding citizens are waking up to this country's slide towards Marxism and fascism, and they are not going to take it anymore. We the citizens are going to start running for office, whether we have the money or not. We are going to speak out against the expansion of the police state and the Patriot Act and all the un-Constitutional measures which are making our country look like those communist nations we were fighting during the Cold War.

National Boycott of Airline Travel 2011 http://www.meetup.com/National-Boycott-of-Airline-Travel-2011/ Starting Martin Luther King Day, Boycott the TSA! Thank you Estelle, I saw you post about this boycott of air travel in 2011 here at http://www.RTR.org so I followed it. Thanks for the tip about the idea that people should stop traveling by air in 2011 to reduce airline profit as a way to express our disapproval of TSA as security at our airports (I believe airports can opt out of that) and eventually/hopefully to ultimately try to achieve the right goal of having TSA abolished. Another relevant site to visit: http://www.boycottflying.com/

Ignoring for a moment that these scanners and gropings do not make us one bit safer, let us remember the words of Benjamin Franklin who said, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty".

I will not give up personal freedoms to terrorists or the TSA. I have over ten years experience flying commerical aircraft and while I am for security the trend and current practices do not address the real threats. I do not care if grandma forgot and still has her sewing sissors in her purse, I worry about those who fit profiles of terrorists.

Enough, I won't fly again until the scanners are gone.

The idea that I must submit to nude photography, physical assault or criminal investigation as a requirement to travel within my own country makes a mockery of everything noble America once claimed to stand for.

Your methods are not proven safe or effective. They are a taxpayer money grab by an insider industry with no controls and a violation of my civil rights. My [large] family & I will no lnoger fly until this nonsense stops.

This is not the USSR! I will no longer fly until this madness has stopped! I am a business professional that flys many times a year! I haven't since these new regulations and will not until they are changed! I will drive, video conference or just plain miss opportunities! What are we a police state?

Sorry airline companies....you've lost me and my families business until the TSA, "peepers" and the groping is gone! I also print out many TSA, DHS things I find on the internet and post them on my church bulletin board! Yep, right down to the politicians stripping us of our tax dollars AND rights just to make a buck via holding hands with the companies that manufacture the "Porno-scanners". I would estimate out of our congregation of over 1500 you've lost 75% of us! And believe me they are all talking to their friends and the word is spreading ever more!

This is a violation of our constitutional rights, and the American people will not stand for it! We are merely traveling citizens - not terrorists or sheep. Whereas some people may choose to keep their heads down and avoid conflict, I vow not to fly until these invasive procedures are reformed! As a citizen, I am guaranteed certain unalienable rights, and I will not have them stripped away by any of the inept employees of the TSA. And I certainly do not think any child should be subjected to full body scans or pat-downs! Photos of these scans have already been illegally saved and distributed to the general public, and more scanners are being installed every day. These machines do not even accurately detect weapons or explosives! It is our responsibility as citizens to petition for change, before we reach an age where there is no privacy.

Stop this humiliating BS. There is need for it.

I am not flying any more. I used to fly two to three times per year, now I'm just saving my money. These scans are not making us safer. You think that a guaranteed feel up or nude scan at the airport is better than the very remote chance of a bombing ? I don't want you to make that decision for me. Especially when one can get plastic explosive through the scanners anyway and conceal the detonator in working electronics. Or blow up the screening area like in Russia. A coordinated attack on several busy screening areas would be trivial for a terrorist to set up and kill hundreds. I'm not flying until you stop insulting our intelligence, stop feeling us up and start treating us like human beings. Is a tiny bit of competence and professionalism too much for us to expect of a highly-funded government agency ? It shouldn't be.

NO X-RAY SCANNERS AND NO BODY GROPES!

The Homeland Security and TSA full body scans and genital pat downs are clear and explicit violations of our fourth amendment. “The right of the people to be secure in their persons ... against unreasonable searches ... shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation ... “ If peoples’ bodies do not belong to “their persons,” and genital body searches without any cause are not unreasonable, and no warrants need be issued for such violations, then what in the world is the worth of our fourth amendment? Does Homeland Security and TSA have difficulty in comprehending the phrase “shall not be violated”?

The American Revolutionary War was kicked off by British agents' insistence to see the stamp on a piece of paper. How much more forceful will the response to seeing all of our skin be? Can't you get a clue? I, like most people, am not violent and will not employ violence until force is used against me. But if an agent threatens me with compliance or loss of my liberty/life/property/employment, how can that NOT be construed as violence??? What happens when the airline industry collapses (again) due to loss of passengers? Will the government bail it out (again) as the currency collapses. And when you can't afford to pay your goons, then what? Pray that you are not a politician, because these trespasses will not soon be forgotten.

What does violating my Fourth Amendment rights have to do with preventing Islamic terrorism?

Due to my moral convictions, I cannot subject myself or my family to such perversion, at least, not without due process as afforded by the US Constitution. For my job, I usually make international flights of mercy for a NGO. No more. So where do I go if I lose my job over this?

TSA employee, your job is un-American, as you violate innocent Americans every day, and you are a parasite, since you are earning a living at the expense of your fellow American citizens. No rationalization like 'potential but never proven extra safety' warrants you raping us all every day and making money on it. You should be ashamed of your chosen profession. If you have any sense of morality, you ought to quite your job and seek a true honest living at no one's expense.

So you have 4 scanners in every checkpoint at DTW, but only one is usually open, making a 20-minute wait. Unless of course you're first class, then it's only 5 minutes. Why is this? Why did I watch 4 TSA guards lift an elderly woman out of her wheel chair to be scanned? The real threat - explosives in her wheel chair -- can't be found with a body scan, can it? And get this -- your new machines are so sensitive that they can detect a small box cutter, but can't identify my body parts... right? But you won't release pics, even tho you can't see my penis, right? And even though you can't see my penis, you have new "cartoon" software on the way, right? Can you see the contradictions in your stories? These new scanners are WRONG. They don't add much, if anything, to "safety" and the violate every lesson I learned in American civics class.

Took at least 2 trips per year vacation.I will NOT fly again until this is stopped.Drive the car people and explore the countryside.

I will not fly again until this issue is resolved.No scanners and no groping.

Become Human Beings!