It is. Folks have three choices. Put up and shut up. Keep flying and fight in every way possible the abuses. Don't fly.
I don’t. I went through one “check point” right after they begin. It was 2002 or 2003. When they were mostly using rental cops. My wife and I had to remove our shoes, I had to empty my pockets. They went through her purse. While I was putting my shoes back on, I saw a group of people dressed in Mid Eastern garb walk right on through and no one at the check point said a word. I said to myself that when I got beck home that I would never get into another airplane as long as they did this crap. Up to now, I have not flew again. I am in the minority, I know that. Most people that I talked to about it say that they do not mind getting their butt probed with someone’s finger, “as long as it makes them secure”.