I hear you. I do my best to be invisible when flying. :)
I just want to get to where I’m going injury-free.
I used to try to be invisible.
But now, I arrive extra early so that I can be as VISIBLE and PROBLEMATIC as possible! I DEMAND a physical pat-down (refuse to be x-rayed - I get x-rayed twice a year at my VA visits, where they fill me with radium and then give me ibuprofen for a nickel-sized hole in my ankle), but I digress...
When they ask if I want this done in private, I say (VERY LOUDLY), “No, I would rather you sexually assault me where I have witnesses and I’m sure it is on camera!” I have scissors in my backpack and make sure to make them visible on scanning - so they have to take them out and argue with me that I can’t have them, then quote them there own rules about being less than 4” in length!
Yep, I’m one of those people the rest of you hate, but if more people started copying my peaceful protest, maybe, just MAYBE, the government and TSA would realize how damn stupid the majority of these actions truly are! What needs to happen is good old police-type work, which includes stereotyping and watching people’s actions and reactions and RANDOM pat-downs/scannings - the perps will tell on themselves 99% of the time! They should still scan all carry-on bags (they were doing that BEFORE 9/11), but this take off your shoes and belts and all that crap is just STUPID! I mean, they had an underwear bomber! DO I need to strip out of those too?!?
We MUST start pushing back against these intrusive, demeaning and USELESS procedures! If TSA actually catches a would-be terrorist, he would have to be the DUMBEST TERRORIST on the planet!! Like the two incompetents that caused all this added stupidity: the failed shoe and underwear bombers!