“Passengers react to TSA groping”

I won’t link to the story and haven’t even read it. We all know what it’s about.

In my own experience, the most obscene frisking has generally taken place at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. They’re absolutely shameless there and a few of them are bordering on arrest for indecent assault.

The friskers are also rude and cocky at Schiphol. Which surprises me a bit, because that’s a great airport, and in my experience the Dutch culture is generally polite and uninvasive.

Other than the frisking part, however, the most ridiculous airport security I encounter is at my home airport, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They act like some sort of special FBI team, but the effect is more like Barney Fife. They love bossing people around in tiny little ways, ordering them to step back 5 inches behind the yellow line, and so forth. Micro-fascism at its finest.