Exactly right. You are under surveillance and scrutiny from the minute you enter airport grounds with your car in Israel. You go past many points of security personnel who are trained to spot unusual people doing unusual things and acting unusual.

You will be confronted and asked questions if suspicions are aroused, and if you're still unusual the red flag is up and you've got explaining to do. The vast majority of passengers acting as usual passengers and doing the normal passenger things sometimes wouldn't even realize they were under scrutiny all the while.

There is more to our TSA than the theater of security they provide. It's also about conditioning the public to accept these intrusions on our freedoms as an acceptable price to pay to feel safe. It's the beginning of the police state and it's encroaching into other areas of our life.