When you opt out, you stand aside, the line keeps moving, and no one is slowed down or inconvenienced. If you want to risk your health going through the “damn machine”, be my guest. Why should I risk my health and safety for you or anyone else?

I know I can take you seriously because of your overuse of profanity, broad generalizations, and choice to use the word retard as a derisive label for someone you don’t agree with. #12andmadatDad

It’s actually the TSA that make the security line long. Don’t blame the innocent travelers.

If you’re too much of a whiny baby to spend 5 extra minutes to protect your rights, you’re basically a coward, so who cares what you think? Just shut up and be a good slave then.

Slippery slope, much?

“Can’t take the risk of radiation? You’ll tell them very friendly you can’t, they’ll offer to take you to a room and screen you there, and you can move on.”

Just go through the mystery machine and keep your fat, goddamn mouth shut.

Actually dickface, when you opt out you’re put on a separate line which makes your line go FASTER...And grow up chomo, youre not in college anymore so why are you watching little kids play sports...Hawkeyes suck

If everyone opted out, they’d just switch over to metal detectors. It’s assholes like you who willingly give up their personal freedoms that make it shitty for the rest of us.

There is generally another TSA person on the side with the scanner not operating the machine that does this in my experience. It doesn’t increase the wait time at all. In addition, if they don’t want to, they shouldn’t have to - wait times be damned. Go to the airport earlier if you have an issue with it. Before I get…

Requesting alternate screening isn’t “complaining about the process” - it should be the right of any traveler who is uncomfortable with machines that were rushed into airports with very little oversight. As to the argument that you’re exposed to “more radiation” on the plane: that’s true, but all radiation is not the…

Yeah! Subject yourselves to radiation generating machines that they REFUSE to have independently audited, and refuse to let TSA agents wear radiation detection tags around. Your right to privacy, and avoidance of potential health risks (because it is, until it’s audited) are not nearly as important as letting people…

Yeah, screw all those people who aren’t alright with ineffective programs violating our liberties! Those people are the worst, why can’t more people be somnambulant drones that do what they’re told without any independent thought!

With every passing year in the “war on terror” the more we come to resemble Gilliam’s Brazil.

This is pretty fucked up. It might be intended for use in “limited circumstances” but what they’ve effectively done is make it mandatory for everyone, all the time. Eventually it’ll just be the standard and noncompliance won’t be an option. The disabled, women who are pregnant, people who are sensitive to radiation…

So in other words. If you opt out you're now suspicious. I will remain to opt out and if they say I can't then I won't fly and I'll sue. And yes, I will.