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If you want to change the idiotic TSA rules put pressure on your local congressman to propose a bill to change them. That's the only way any change will actually happen.
Inconveniencing everyone behind you in line, and harassing TSA employees who have no power to change the rules they are told to enforce, helps only by feeding your ego and allowing you to vent your rage.
It's like screaming at your waitress because you think your food is overpriced-----it just shows you're a jerk and an idiot, and that you enjoy demeaning people who can't fight back.
Do the rest of us behind you in line a favor, and save your smart-ass comments and oh-so-clever civil libertarian lectures for when you're in front of the mirror at home. We're not "sheep", we just want to get where we're going quickly and with minimal hassle. No one appreciates having to listen to your grandstanding of the obvious and making the process more torturous than it already is.
