I agree with your points, and TSA deliberately uses the threat of making you lose your flight as a weapon to make you submit to their crimes, which just goes to show you how abusive these crooks are.

I say lemmings for several reasons. There were two lines going through airport insecurity, the line I went through did not have a porn scanner, the other one did. I saw it in advance and deliberately avoided that line ensuring there was no chance they would try their humiliation tactics.

After I went through, I stood on the side of the porn scanner just to watch people for awhile and observe their whole demeanor. I saw no disgusted look on peoples faces, nothing that made me think they were not happy with it all.

It is like being told you have to sit on the back of the bus because of your race, and willingly doing so with a smile.

It is the DUTY of every citizen to do all they can to challenge, obstruct and defy the government at every step of the way when the government attempts to chip away our rights slowly and insidiously, balanced of course by our abilities and practicalities as you mentioned.