Originally Posted by
DocDorfman
That's the thing - it wasn't a gate search, it was a gate stare-down.
They made no contact with the passengers while they were at the gate, they just made little finger jesters to each other and moved around the perimeter of the folks waiting.
Surveillance like behavior - except obvious as an elephant in the living room.
I would have made a few choice finger gestures of my own every time one of them looked directly at me.