I make a point to opt out every time on principle, too, and while I do get a tiny modicum of satisfaction of telling the clipboard-wielding screener to write do

I make a point to opt out every time on principle, too, and while I do get a tiny modicum of satisfaction of telling the clipboard-wielding screener to write down "because it's un-American" as my reason for doing so, I've noticed an increasing delay in getting the physical inspection. I fly a lot, and the delays have gotten longer and longer over the past year -- recently I've been left waiting for 30 minutes or more. I would be surprised if this wasn't an intentional policy to coerce flyers to subject themselves to the pervscanner machines, just like when they originally instituted the policy of fondling your nutsack if you opted out. This is an effective strategy, I think, because when traveling on business that extra time really does make you want to say fuck it, I need to review the changes to the presentation one more time, I'll just go through the fucking porno machine. IMO, the indignities Americans allow the TSA to subject them to are just one more sign of an empire in decline. Flying into the USA feels like entering a draconian police state from a sci-fi movie -- even compared to flying into an actual draconian police state like China, for fucks's sake.