[Lazamataz]

I can point out (as I have) that refusing to fly just because one doesn’t agree with the rules (whether you like them or not) is just childish.

It's childish to make informed consumer decisions?

[freedumb2003]

>>It’s childish to make informed consumer decisions?<<

Take 2 items:

1) A globe of the world

2) A map of, let us say, 600 miles around your home.

By saying “Well, I just won’t fly” your entire world is encompassed in #2.

You want to go to Hawaii? Nope. Want to go to Europe? Nope.

Your child/grandchild/etc. has a wedding 3,000 miles away? Not going to attend. Same wedding in the Bahamas? Not in the cards.

Of course everyone should make his/her own analysis. If 5 minutes of potential pissed-officeness is enough to shackle you, then that is your call.

It just strikes me as childish.

The way to change the system is to change the system. Not throw a tantrum that, frankly, no one cares about. Fly, don’t fly, no one cares.

But I 100% guarantee if you NEED to fly, those “informed consumer decisions” will be out the door faster than a call for an obama golf outing is in.

And, FWIIW, I haven’t been touched by a TSA person in many months (call it 100,000 qualifying miles). Not that they should, but it just hasn’t happened. That doesn’t make them my friends (they owe me Trusted Traveler which I DO have [Global Entry] for International flights — irony indeed).