{"id":969,"date":"2013-01-10T10:05:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T15:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/?p=969"},"modified":"2013-01-10T10:05:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T15:05:22","slug":"tsa-punishes-opt-out-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/10\/tsa-punishes-opt-out-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA Punishes Passengers Who Opt Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

From an article by Christopher Elliott come the following excerpts:\"TSA<\/p>\n

If you don’t want to walk through a poorly tested full-body scanner<\/a> or have a TSA agent belittle your anatomy<\/a> before your next flight, then you still have the right to opt out and submit to an “enhanced” pat-down.<\/p>\n

Opt-outs are arguably the biggest segment of the new passenger underclass. The TSA doesn’t release statistics on air travelers who refuse a full-body scan, but anecdotal evidence suggests their numbers are large and growing.<\/p>\n

Intimidation<\/strong>, Harassment<\/strong> & Retaliatory wait time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For TSA agents, opt-outs are a pain. They have to explain the pat-down procedure, put on a pair of blue latex gloves, get moved from their duty station, and, worst of all, there’s a pretty good chance the traveler will object to the manual screening in some way. When that happens, a supervisor must be summoned and possibly the airport police, since TSA agents have no law enforcement authority. It can get really messy.<\/p>\n

Read the full article at: Elliott Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opt-outs are arguably the biggest segment of the new passenger underclass. For TSA agents, opt-outs are a pain. Frequent result? Intimidation, Harassment & Retaliatory wait time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[23,17,28,19,18,67,68],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-noteworthy","tag-anecdotes","tag-business","tag-health","tag-law","tag-management","tag-politics","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DORt-fD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}