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The great objection is the 4th Amendment's stricture against unreasonable search. These searches are being performed in such a manner as to make this nothing but theater. It isn't going to make you any safer, because a few trips through a security checkpoint will show all the weaknesses of this approach. One that jumps right out is the lines this creates. One jihadi with clothes by DuPont can really put a twist on this mess. They could kill more people at the checkpoint than they would on the plane. In the end, you aren't going to stop the terrorist bent on death. He will find a way. So the idea is to get him before he gets anywhere. Hit him early, and hit him hard.

To address the rest of your post, the TSA hasn't found any bombs, and have even missed a large portion of the test bombs sent through by the government to test its own security. It is ineffectual at best, and a real hazard to the normal air traveler because of it.

I won't go through that kabuki dance, therefore I don't fly. And there are ever more coming around to that way of thinking, so air travel will become prohibitively expensive as fewer flyers will pick up more of the cost of flying them. And they still won't be safe from the jihadi. And the safest state is a police state. So exactly how careful do you want to be?

Read the US Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the many writings of those who founded this nation. Then, and only then, will you understand the objection.

>>And there are ever more coming around to that way of thinking

"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY
TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"
--
Thomas Jefferson

Yep.

Thanks for the explanations. I can see your point.
I remember the ‘unlawful search’ thing.