The uncomfortable part about freedom and rights is they also apply to people whom you dislike.
http://psychologydictionary.org/authority-complex/
What is AUTHORITY COMPLEX?
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a pattern of emotionally charged concepts of authority in an individual that are partially or completely repressed. To satisfy an unconscious need for authority, a person projects power onto certain other people (see also projection) and experiences feelings of inferiority in the presence of these others. Therefore, reactions to authority often take the form of oversubmission, but may at times, take the form of dominance and hostility.
AUTHORITY COMPLEX: “A person with an authority complex represses his or her own needs for authority and projects them onto others.”
I agree with you, but I'm not sure how that applies here. The idea that airline passengers have any "freedom and rights" to speak of is laughable. By the time you buckle your seatbelt on a passenger flight you have already gone through one of the most outrageously intrusive processes anyone in human history -- including people who lived in the Stalin-era Soviet Union -- has ever experienced.