No. Security measures should be unintrusive, respecting the rights of citizens while looking for suspicious behavior. Follow the Israeli model. When was there last hijacking? To the best of my knowledge, ID isn't a big part of their process either. It's astute questioning and observation.
Of course, they realize that the security of their nation is at stake. For us, it's just a jobs program for morons, half wits, and thugs to exercise a bit of power in their otherwise pitiful existences.
I can't imagine how the threads would have read here, if some of these schmucks were around while the Jarbridge episode was occurring, or the Klamath incident, or even the Elian Gonzales fiasco.
Then again, some of them consider Thomas Jefferson a communist. They'd probably still regard George Washington as a traitor to the crown, even though the US has been a sovereign nation for over 200 years.