Thank you for your civil courage.
The OP has my full support. One or two posters in this thread are obviously TSA employed, TSA hired, or TSA invested. Otherwise their blind promotion of the crazy TSA "security" policies is inexplicable. If you accept this kind of nonsense in airports, then there is NOTHING that will stop this from speading to railway stations, bus terminals, schools, malls, and, eventually, homes. (Welcome to 1984.) This needs to be stopped while we still can.