If you got a ticket for going 65 mph in a 45 mph zone and you were in fact doing only 40 mph, would you just pay it or would you fight it, Spearhead? Would you not file a complaint against the cop who gave you that ticket?

It's the same thing with some TSA employees. There are published procedures that screeners are supposed to be following; many of us are just trying to make them do their job according to their SOP.

When a pax refuses to remove his/her non-profile shoes and then is sent to secondary because of that, it is nothing but a power play by the screener and does nothing to improve security. A complaint should be filed against that screener.

If it doesn't bother you, please go right ahead and take your shoes off, walk on the filthy floors in your stocking feet, let yourself be ordered around by former McD's employees.

I choose to respect myself too much to allow someone to treat me like a potential terrorist. If I am doing nothing wrong, you will not treat me as if I am and get away with it.

By the way, the itimidation game can be played two ways. As someone suggested in another post (maybe not in this thread), there are ways to imply that one might be doing a spot check of screeners without saying anything that is false. Bullies are easily intimidated.