My son has autism. There is no way in hell that he will be going inside some radiation machine, and someone will get hurt badly if they attempt to 'pat' him down.
I'll take my chances by purchasing a ticket and approaching through security, but that's as far as I go. If I or anyone else in my family gets singled out for this, I will be going back to my car. I don't care what it costs me. If we allow ourselves to be subjected to this, we no longer live in a country once called America.
Tell Willie Green that he has much more support for his transnational bullet trains now.
I heard a woman on a talk show today with your very concerns of her child with autism.
THIS
HAS
TO
STOP!
PERIOD!!!!!!!!!
We are approaching critical mass.
I agree with you. Next month I am flying with my youngest boys. We fly out of an airport without the scanners, but we fly back through an airport WITH them. I refuse the radiation AND the patdowns for my children, and I will leave the airport and rent a car and drive home, regardless of fines, if they threaten to do ANYTHING more invasive than a general wanding like you get for a sporting event.
There are so many alternatives that would actually WORK: sniffer dogs, profiling behavior, paying attention to the No-Fly list. They have enough at their disposal to do the max to keep us safe, without obliterating our 4th Amendment privileges which were given us by G-d!!! NOT BY OBAMA!!!