Organizer calls for a boycott of Delta Air by Tom Walsh Thursday, March 13, 2003 A Wakefield native has created a Web site urging a boycott of Delta Airlines, citing the carrier's role in a new passenger screening project that has been blasted by critics as an invasion of privacy. ``I have better things to do with my time than organize a boycott,'' Bill Scannell, 38, organizer of the boycottdelta.org, said yesterday. ``But when you have a company that collaborates and starts working on a program like this, it's an outrage.'' Delta is the first airline to work with the federal Transportation Security Agency as it develops the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System II, an electronic assessment of the security risk of every passenger. The system has sparked an outcry from civil libertarians who say having the government poring over everything from credit history to criminal records is a massive invasion of privacy that will do little to catch terrorists. Scannell, who now lives in Texas, said over 250,000 people have viewed his Web site and that he has received more than 4,000 e-mails since setting it up last week. ``Most people are supportive, but about 15 (percent) to 20 percent tell me to go back to Baghdad, that I'm un-American, that anything to battle terrorists is OK,'' he said. ``Some people would be willing to fly chained, naked, sedated and with a catheter.'' A Delta spokeswoman said the company is monitoring the site. ``We are aware of the Web site and do take very seriously the comments we get about (the project),'' said Katie Connell, Delta spokeswoman. The CAPPS II project is also being opposed by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, which represents travel agents, hotel operators, ground transport companies and the like. About 82 percent of members polled recently said they opposed the program and believe it is an invasion of privacy, an association spokesman said. Delta said the system is being tested at three airports, but would not say which ones. But Wareham resident Ronald Robinson, 62, said he believes he ran into it when boarding a Delta flight in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Robinson said he feels the system is too intrusive and would support a boycott of airlines using it. ``I understand the need for security,'' he said. ``But getting information on people and not letting them know what is being done with it is just wrong. It's un-American.''