This account of a gang of TSA thugs following the woman and her son onto the plane and detaining them is pretty darn appalling.
Spreading the word about this sort of abuse is something we all ought to be doing more actively. Blog a link, tweet it, plaster the offending TSOs' names all over the internet.
I've seen older Egyptian citizens apologizing to the young protesters of their nation for not having the guts and the will to speak out about the "emergency" order instituted there 30 years ago. Some of them apparently feel that they cooperated and submitted to authority to such an extreme that they scarcely noticed until they basically had no rights at all.
I certainly hope that doesn't happen in the US -- I hope the checks and balances originally set up in our Constitution will prevent it. But when I see the vast majority of sheep herded thru the checkpoints without uttering any protest, I have to wonder what THIS country will look like in 30 years.