I'm fairly certain that if enough Americans simply pushed back and refused to fly, the airlines would have brought a stop (or at less slowed it) to this tyrannical over-reach. But what they saw was that after a little bit of complaining, everyone just falls into line. So now they creep forward a little bit more, then a little bit more... IMO this whole DHS-TSA is as much about teaching the population to display fealty to government & to show obedience, as it is about stripping away our liberties. ("Security" barely factors into it.)