Yes, and had no feelings of superiority over them. They had 300 people behind me that had to be checked, and they were professional and kind toward me. I was kind to them.
I think the writer is a whiner because he is whining. I don't make the same assumption about all writers.
In this horror story the Fred and Ethel Mertz security people called in the gestapo goons early on. Its amazing how nobody wants to question what cops do nowadays.