Oh it is, and it's yet another tiny reason not to fly. I won't fly because I don't feel like being treated like a KGB political prisoner.
I'm with you on that. I am very tired of all the searching that you have to go through at airports these days. It has certainly discouraged me from flying.
If the airline industry wants to return to profitability they are going to have to abandon their "search and destroy our once valuable customer base" approach to security. That is going to be very hard now that you have the vested interest of a large and growing work force of "searchers".
Sell your American Airlines stock and put a small down payment on a motor home.