Originally Posted by doober
Write to your carrier of choice and advise them that you are going to curtail your travel unless these restrictions are rescinded, including shoe removal.
I really don't think letters matter.
I think it will take people with sufficient resources who are willing to suffer the damages. You have to loose that laptop, get hurt on a flight, fall down at the checkpoint or whatever. Then you have to pay the lawyer to file the lawsuit. It's one thing to deny an aiport or airline revenue. It's another to cost them the money their lawyers will have to spend defending against your suit.
I'm not saying to manufacture a reason to sue, I'm saying they will cause it all on their own, we just need to actually go forward with our legal options.
Lawyers, start your engines!