I don't have any trouble with the TSA - and as I've posted elsewhere,

[hedgehog]

I don't see their behavior as any different than security agents in England, Switzerland, Germany, England, Ireland and Brazil. My husband is a very frequent flier, and adds Canada, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, the Emirates, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore to that list.

When we fly, we're flying on the company nickel encountering other working stiffs just doing their job.
Granted, in any large group of people, there are a certain number of jerks. I will allow that on any given day, there will be TSA agents who are surly and/or power hungry. I've never run into them. I'm generally very tense and preoccupied at the start of a trip, and very tired and foggy at the end, so I'm not at my best when I go through Security. I've had to be reminded to remove my shoes, and once I had some vendor freebies from a trade show in my purse. I was thinking of them as tools for opening UPS boxes, and didn't connect that the technical term for those items was "box cutters". So I can say that I've been pulled aside for extra searching both at random and with reason, and always been treated with courtesy.

So, again allowing for the fact that some TSA agents are jerks, I have these questions:

1. How many people who have trouble with the TSA have trouble with any authority figures?

2. How many people who have trouble with TSA agents are white people dealing with a person of color in an authority position?

3. How many people who have trouble with TSA agents view themselves as upper class or at least middle class and the agents as lower class?

4. How many people who have trouble with the TSA agents also have complaints about bossy flight attendants?