Kicking sandals off is too much trouble for you to bear? Something tells me that much of life is a unbearable irritant for you.
When I traveled this week twice across the country, there were no such incidences of silliness, most people were still taking their shoes off to expedite getting through, though security was not really even asking them to remove sneakers any more. Maybe it is silly to think they could find explosives in little sandals. But silly does not equal oppression.
It's my choice bozo. If the screeners wanted to stick a sigmoidiscope up your butt, you'd bend over as soon as the KY came into view.