You treat passengers as if they were suspects in a crime. The searches you perform would be illegal in any other public thoroughfare without a warrant. That is the farthest thing from respect. How is it respectful to coerce a stranger into letting you touch her breasts?

First of all, no one's life is in danger from my not being searched. I've never had an item confiscated, and I've never been charged with a crime. You're the one wasting everyone's time searching me.

And it's completely disingenuous of you to say that our concern is convenience. Our concerns are: loss of privacy, invasion of private parts of our bodies, being forced by government agents to undress, and the loss of the safety that could have been provided by spending all the millions we're spending frisking each other on real anti-terrorism measures.