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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/protest-over-airport-body-scanners.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A sign informing travellers about the use of full-body scanners at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-protest-over-airport-body-scanners.jpg" alt="A sign informing travellers about the use of full-body scanners at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>US airports could see more disruptions than they usually would over the busy Thanksgiving holiday, because of a loosely organised internet boycott of new full-body scanners.</p>
<p>The full-body scanners show a traveller&#8217;s physical contours on a computer in a private room removed from security checkpoints. But critics say they amount to virtual strip searches.</p>
<p>Body scans take as little as 10 seconds, but people who decline the process must submit to a full pat-down, which takes much longer. That could cause a cascade of delays at dozens of major airports, including those in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta.</p>
<p>The protest, National Opt-Out Day, is scheduled for Wednesday to coincide with the busiest travel day of the year.</p>
<p>&#8220;Just one or two recalcitrant passengers at an airport is all it takes to cause huge delays,&#8221; said Paul Ruden, a spokesman for the American Society of Travel Agents, which has warned its more than 8,000 members about delays resulting from the body-scanner boycott.</p>
<p>The protest was conceived in early November by Brian Sodergren of Ashburn, who created a one-page website urging people to decline the scans.</p>
<p>Public interest in the protest boomed this week after a Californian man named John Tyner famously resisted a scan and groin check at the San Diego airport with the words, &#8220;If you touch my junk, I&#8217;ll have you arrested.&#8221; A cell-phone video of the incident went viral.</p>
<p>The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has a new pat-down procedure that includes a security worker running a hand up the inside of passengers&#8217; legs and along the cheek of the buttocks, as well as making direct contact with the groin area.</p>
<p>Pat-downs often take up to four minutes, according to the TSA&#8217;s website, though that could be longer if someone requests it be done in a room out of public view or if an ill-at-ease traveller asks for a full explanation of the procedure beforehand.</p>
<p>Ironically, one person who will not take part directly in Wednesday&#8217;s protest is its instigator, Brian Sodergren. He said his wife is too uncomfortable with the prospect of either a body scan or a pat-down, so they are driving the several hundred miles to a relative&#8217;s home.</p>
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