How many hijackings or airline disaters have we had since installing the TSA? What? Zero?
If the airlines' private security companies would have stepped up to the plate and improved their services then government would not have needed to step in.
You have not lost any "rights".
You have no "right" to fly commercial airliners. Those are privately owned carriers and in order to board those aircraft you consent to have your baggage and person searched.
Don't blame the TSA crews, they are not paid to exercise discretion and judgement, they are paid to follow protocols established and/or blessed by Congress (the same people that were elected to represent your interests!). That also reducs or eliminates indivudiual based biases.
I am confortable saying that if the security measures were not political fodder and strictly for security, you'd see profiling and directed searches instead of what we see designed apparently to appeas the CAIR and ACLU.
I see the bitching but I don't see any offers for system improvement but that is typical.
But if you think the TSA is a hassle, fly in Europe or the Mid East.
Yes, and the most frequently heard defense at Nuremburg was "I vas yust following orders."
If aircraft safety was such a major concern, why did the feds fight ARMING FLIGHT CREWS tooth and nail and only relented after a huge public outcry?
Could it be that they WANT to cultivate the notion that only the established "authorities" have the right and wherewithall to properly defend poor, helpless little us?
Read a book called "Call 911 and Die" THEN let's talk again.