soon I will start padding down my family. heck, who can trust their kids and spouse. They could bring home dangerous weapons of mass destruction...things like bad movies, or literature, and even GMO foods, and FDA-all-eradicated almonds. Yea, this is the new American family. Pad them down, baby! TSA is nothing but another version of Adolf Hitlers sympathizers. I will not travel by air any more, and I will not go anywhere anymore where my rights are violated.

In his interview, Representative Wimmer said the following: “Does that officer have and are they able to articulate reasonable suspicion or probable cause that the citizen who is about to board that plane has committed a crime, is committing a crime, or is about to commit a crime? Barring those three things it's hands off.” First, have you heard of police officers conducting pat-downs for their safety, even if the person isn't arrested? It's an everyday thing. If our current technology detects something which we can't physically see, you're okay to just believe whatever the passenger says and tnen let them go? Lets get an airline that doesn't screen anyone so you and the others whose rights have been violated so badly can fly without any hassles from TSA. Good luck trying to find a pilot to take you anywhere! Second, how do you determine if someone is about to commit a crime? So you go through the full body scanner and it says theres an anomaly around your midsection. I ask you if you have any weapons or if you're going to commit a crime and you say no. I let you go and when you're at 30,000 feet, you pull out your gun, knife, whatever and start creating havoc or worse. I thought representatives had access to more statistics than the general public. If you did some simple internet research, you'd find out how many people bring dangerous weapons to airport security checkpoints everyday. I'm not talking about fingernail clippers either. Guns and knives. Yes, some were carried by extremely young kids whose parents didn't know they had the weapon. Yes, old men have had guns strapped to their ankles. But I guess that's okay because they don't look like a "terrorist." Get real and grow up, sir! If this is the top item on your agenda, you need to move over and let someone else serve the public. I'll help you by voting for anyone else but you. One question...have you made any recommendations on how to improve the system? I have and will continue to do so.

I hope this passes. I will never subject myself or my family to nude scans and genital rubdowns, even if it means finding alternate methods of transportation. Enough is enough.

I am ashamed for all of the husbands willing to allow their wives to be groped so that they will be permitted to use public transportation. I am enraged by all of the parents willing to allow their children to be touched on their genitals by strangers, when they should be taught that it is wrong for strange men to touch them there. Isn't it interesting that the lady who wrote this article only printed the remarks of those who are in favor of being groped so that they can get to where they are going with the greatest convenience? Although most people willing to fly these days need to convince themselves there is nothing wrong with being groped, I feel certain she had to have interviewed some who understand it is wrong. She simply chose not to print those interviews. That doesn't recommend her as an unbiased journalist, and it doesn't say much for ABC4's editors, who should have noticed the article was one-sided. It is unfortunate that there are citizens willing to give up their "essential freedom for some temporary safety". There should be a refuge for those of us unwilling to do so. We should have somewhere to live within our own country where that is not the case. Texas tried and failed. Utah may attempt this next, and I hope they have more success. But people should be able to travel _anywhere_ in our great land without these unwarranted searches, and even if Utah and other states stop this practice, the travelers will still be subjected to it on their return flights. It has to stop. You people who think it is acceptable: if it were strictly voluntary, would you still do it?

Isn't it interesting that this article only printed interviews with those who have swallowed the government's lie that TSA patdowns provide safety for airline passengers? Can you actually believe ABC4 only spoke to those willing to give up "essential freedom for temporary safety", or is it more likely they refused to print interviews of people who understand that it is both wrong and useless? I am ashamed for husbands who think it is acceptable for their wives to be groped by TSA personnel, for parents who allow their children to have a stranger put his hands on their genitals, when they should be taught it is wrong for someone to touch them in that way - simply so that they will be allowed to use public transportation. What have we become that people should think this is acceptable and necessary?

First Texas and now Utah. Why are all the states with landscape reminiscent of Tatooine trying to get back at the TSA pat downs? I posted a comic on my blog this morning about this. http://www.slowroadtoknowhere.com/2011/05/darth-vader-vs-tsa.html

I doubt the views of the people you talked to are indicative represent the views of the rest of us. I say, "There has been no evidence to show that pat downs increase security at all, in fact, they provide a false sense of security since someone who wants to sneak things through can still easily do so." I'd also like to point out that giving the TSA the power to interrupt us as they please is ethically wrong since their actions do not increase the safety of others, and sucks time and money from the citizens. That is the opinion of this traveler and citizen of the US who's tired of the government's intrusion into all our lives.

Screw the federal government they refuse to enforce immigration law yet they want to frisk good American 5 year olds at the airport. They still cant tell you why we are in Iraq or Afhganistan..or why Osama was buried at sea..what a joke this all reeks of government corruption and inside job to steal take away more of our freedoms. They know that the more they scare you with the neverending war on terror the more they can take away your freedoms with the...WMD...yea right lies all lies

The next time some one says to you "I have nothing to hide" Ask them to hand over their wallet or hand bang for you to look through, then you'll really see if they don't mind some one going through their personal things. Educate yourself people the government is trampling on the constitution and it won't stop with air travel if we allow this to continue The states need to stick together on this matter and not allow the federal government to bully them with threats of "no fly states"

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin