I interpret many TSA workers as victims, not evildoers. They're ill-trained, poorly-paid, made to do some difficult work from passengers who often mistreat them, and generally don't have the top hats to set off my evil radar. The bad eggs bring bad PR to the whole industry, but I've never had any negative experiences at airports myself. Most of these people are fellow 99 percenters. My only recent bad memory experience was a tarmac crew worker in Phoenix who threw my backpack (which I could see from my seat in the plane) so hard that it fell on the ground.
I'll fully agree that our present airport security apparatus needs to be completely redesigned.
Personally, though, I prefer the body scanner machines to the fun of a much more personal search. In fact, so long as the radiation concerns can be mitigated (which is not a problem at all in many designs), I'm not against them at all. Bean-counting-type jobs are never as fun as they seem to outsiders. Most people would get inured to looking at that imagery really fast, and I'm not so puritanical that I feel violated if some badge looks at a picture of my naked outline.
