@WestwoodDenizen: So is driving, yet I wouldn't let a traffic cop touch my penis in order to drive down the highway.

@Cow: I think that's what you want to believe. My bottom line: I am going to defend the right to not have my genitals touched or handled by any and everyone who tries to do so. I don't care about the TSA agents. (Don't worry, I know they don't care about me.)

@Dunadan: That middle-aged man embarrassed an elderly-aged man making him urinate on himself because he was "just doing his job." TSA agents are human, and so are the people they are groping.

@ivan-the-terrible: I'm also on board.

@Sprzout: The guy in S.D. STILL had a choice to leave and then fight the fine through other legal actions.

@WestwoodDenizen: I wont support the TSA agents any more than I would have supported American police officers in the '50s enforcing Jim Crow laws.

@kkozinski: You're not forced to wait in line behind someone opting out either. If long wait times are bothering you, for whatever reason, you too also have a right to leave the airport.

Does not everyone have 3G iPads in their bathroom for emergencies like this?

@Webran61: Looks like some of you are not getting the point: My freedom doesn't give a damn about your wait time.

@WFROSE:

Last time I checked, this is still America. Here in America, we welcome the challenging of practices deemed unacceptable by public consensus, regardless of whom it inconveniences. The fight for freedom is always inconvenient.

Really puts things into perspective (as I load ubuntu on a 4GB USB stick.)

@hokiebird2: He pays for those airports too.

@Webran61: I wasn't trying to be political or "high and mighty" at all. However there are millions (read: millions) of Americans in some sort of financial debt to a credit card company and/or bank. I see no harm in simply suggesting thinking twice about using "credit" frivolously; no insult to the other millions of…

Skip the credit card, and the big purchase. Avoid the pain of debt instead.

@jmalla588: Good thing it failed. You could have went to jail for frivolous abuse of an emergency service.

Wow. This is one of the most refreshing surprises I've had in a while.

@The Intangible Fancy: Isn't that sad that this is probably true?

@typica1cat: It's an internet forum. I was encouraging discussion on the story. Apologies!

@typica1cat: Ah yes. There's always the apathetic.