Do not oppress

What goes on in airports these days seems to me of such authoritarian and despotic nature that it is appalling. You're often treated as a suspect without crime or cause. You're searched, interrogated and hassled. All this in the name of your own security. It stinks like rotten fish. It is invasive and abusive most of the times. The airport security officers who by the nature of their job and because in most cases they are not proper authorities (but rather private security companies) should be extra polite and apologetic, are often taking joy in their little power game. Those officers protect us from the terrorists, but who protects us from them? Constitutional rights should protect us from this type of harassment, like for example when police officers require a warrant to search someone, which is given only when a court finds this person suspect based on evidence. But apparently the constitutions foresee exceptions in treating suspects for more delicate cases. Soon we'll be letting each other search and suspect each other at will. This is also terrorism.