Organizers plan body scan protests

Millions of people will be taking to the skies this week for Thanksgiving.
    
However, there are mounting worries a planned protest for Wednesday could seriously disrupt air travel across the country.  

One organization called "We Won't Fly" encourages passengers to jam Transportation Security Administration’s checkpoints by opting out until they remove the "porno-scanners."

Organizers say the scanners are equivalent to a strip search, and the pat-downs are like government approved groping.  But they're still recommending the pat-downs because it would cause more delays and send a message. 

New pat-down protocol has a security worker running a hand up the inside of passengers' legs and along the cheek of the buttocks.  There's also direct contact with the groin area.
 
“I'd rather walk through the scanner than being pat down by a total stranger, with someone I don't know touching me," said Dina Maddern, airline passenger.  

An estimated 20 percent of holiday fliers will be asked to use the full-body machines when passing through security.  Meaning tens of thousands could be in a position to opt out.

Some experts warn even if just a small percentage of people participate, it could mean longer lines and big delays.  Body scans take as little as 10 seconds. The pat-downs take at least four minutes.  By those estimates, if 100 people passed through security, it would take about 16 minutes to put them through a body scan and six hours for full body pat-downs.
    
The TSA insists the extra screening is necessary to keep the skies safe.

This weekend, President Barack Obama agreed.

"Our TSA personnel are properly under enormous pressure to make sure that you don't have somebody slipping on a plane with some sort of explosive device on their persons," Obama said.

If you don't like pat downs or body scanners, you won't like what the TSA has in store for you.
    
People who get into the security lines and refuse a body scan or a pat down can be fined as much as $11,000.
    
Even if someone in a security line becomes frustrated and decides not to fly, TSA rules require they submit to a scan or pat-down.

The agency says if people were allowed to walk out, potential terrorists would have an easy escape.