Sounds as if most posters are willing to undergo the Barefoot Dance of Coercion just in order to be able to get aboard a plane on a ticket they paid for.

No, not I. Never again. Not in this lifetime. I may be old but I ain't THAT dumb, yet. Never will grovel or be made a public example again. Rest of you? Be sure to greet your TSA agents appropriately. Enjoy those cattle pens and get as comfortable as you can there on the back of the bus.