Wrong.
Today it's your shoes, tomorrow it's your pants. A strip-search by any other name is still filthy, unnecessary harassment. And the real crime is that the Shoe Carnival does nothing (read: ZERO) for security. Put plastique in underwear, harassment thwarted. Quickly. Easily. Painlessly.
The TSA makes the rules and we have no say in the matter? By God, no. And more to the point, to hell with that. I pay for the TSA and each and every time I am ripped off with useless, harassing "security", the harasser is going to hear about it, the manager of the harasser is going to hear about it, the toll-free TSA hotline is going to hear about it and every couple of occurrances, my elected representives will hear about it.
Spotting BS security isn't rocket science.
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"Give me Liberty or give me Death." - Patrick Henry