I plan on driving, but for those who will be flying next week,
here is a useful link.
Also, remember that Thursday, November 24 is national 'opt-out' day. The TSA's stance is that it's only a vocal minority complaining about this latest injustice and that the vast majority of people are OK with it. The importance of national opt-out day is to send a message to the TSA more than anything else. That said, deciding between being invasively groped and being bombarded with radiation and having naked pictures of you stored permanently on the device is not an easy thing to do, so if opting out is not something you're comfortable with, don't force yourself. The real tragedy is that those are much more commonly becoming the only two choices available to us (respectfully declining either will
possibly get you a fine and wind you up on the no-fly list.
The TSA are a public organization and are thus theoretically accountable to the people. The only way things will get better is if the public acknowledge the status quo as unacceptable. While in my ideal fantasy world enough people would boycott the airlines entirely that the TSA have no choice but to back down, at the very least we can complain loudly and to the right people enough that things change.
