Smurfs are the lowest form of existence there is, the ones who are power hungry and have a case of swollen head syndrome and use it to abuse passengers are even lower than most smurfs who just have no common sense.
I have came close and it was only the thought of being sent to prison for assualting a smurf that kept me from going over that edge. A lowly smurf is not worth prison time.
There have been times where I walked away from the checkpoint and was quietly swearing about the treatment I received using every vulgar profanity I could possibly think of.
The only time I actually confronted a screener was an incident in CLE earlier this year when the smurfs had slithered up to the gate to do their molesting of the passengers and their carryons. One of them tried to take my wallet and was going to look at the contents when I grabbed it out of his hands, said a couple of not nice things to him and walked away, ended up taking a later flight.
The op statement about police officers is not something I would agree with, I am certain that the police have their share of bad apples too but the vast majority of these would never do anything like what he describes.