This "convenience feature" seems nice at first glance, but it positively frightens me: Our government can now coerce the general public to join a federal datab

This "convenience feature" seems nice at first glance, but it positively frightens me: Our government can now coerce the general public to join a federal database with details of our private affairs by threatening ill treatment. Airport checks are degrading. Taking off your clothes, public pat-downs... There's nothing dignifying about treating everyone like they might be a terrorist. TSA has complete geographic reach in the US. They're in more airports than Starbucks and Cinnabon! This reach means everyone is affected. I've never been one for conspiracy theories, but much of TSA policy has so far been "slippery slope" forays upon the general population. Will the next step be a "known citizen" program that includes the features of the "known traveller" program and new benefits for volunteer-surveillance?