From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone with the newsmaking cell phone video recorded by 31-year-old

would-be passenger John Tyner at the San Diego Airport.

When, confronting new invasive body scanners, he opted for

the new hands-on pat-down procedures instead and learned they'd be going for his groin.

And if you'd like a private screening, we can make that available for you also.

We can do that out here, but if you touch my junk, I'm going to have you arrested.

When faced with the inevitability of junk touching, he balked again and was told his final option would be to leave the

airport. Okay, I don't understand how a sexual assault be made, a condition of my flying. This is not

considered a sexual assault. It would be if you weren't the government. Then he learned that leaving

wasn't an option either.

He had to submit to a pat-down or risk an $11,000 transportation safety agency fine.

He still declined.

But his cell phone video posted online quickly went viral.

Now several groups have called for a national opt-out day on November 24th, the year's

single biggest travel day. Has the internet pushed America to the brink of a transportation

rebellion? Mika Sifery is co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum and TechPresident.com. He says

opposition to the new scanners and pat-downs have made for some

strange bedfellows. We see groups from the right, like Congressman Ron Paul, groups like the ACLU,

which is traditionally thought of as being more on the left, all talking about whether the TSA has

gone too far. And a lot of bottom-up

spontaneous activity that the Internet is so great at fostering.

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