Actually complaining to the right people is the only way that anything is going to change. If we all just sit back and accept it they will know that they can get away with doing anything they like without a backlash.
"The right people" being your specific Members of Congress. Regardless, the problem isn't the complaining to your Members of Congress - the problem is the efforts to exploit our nation's salacious and sensationalistic media (fostering unreasonable fear, uncertainty and doubt) in order to incite others to unwarranted panic. The attempt to create "backlash" (a clearly effrontery tactic) indicates an intention to bypass reasonable consideration.
This is just a conditioning experiment to see how far they can push before people revolt. Before we know it the govt. will be controlling us in many many more ways.
That's simply more FUD.
Contrary to what you've claimed, the reality is that people have been getting more and more and more freedoms over the years.
For example: The local government, here in (what was then) Woburn parish, used to put folks in prison for not attending the Congregational church on Sunday. Even the Episcopalians. They had religious freedom: After attending the Congregational worship service, they could go off to their Episcopalian worship service. This continued well into the 19th century.
Indeed, perhaps, in some cases, freedoms are being acquired quicker than the law has a chance to catch up in terms of providing protection for us from the harm that may stem from some exploitations of the freedoms practiced by other people. Freedom has never, and can never, be absolute, except in a society of one person.
Our society strikes a balance that supports progress while preventing anarchy. Neither extreme gets their way - neither your extreme, i.e., whatever freedom you want; nor the opposite extreme, i.e., safety through control trumping freedom absolutely.
This is just the begining unless enough people finally revolt and stand up for their rights.
This is not the beginning nor ending. There is nothing particularly unique about this situation. It is a natural progression spawned by the realities of the changing world we live in.
Even when something is a privilege in this country we still have our constitutional rights, at least we are suppose to.
And you do. Unlike the Episcopalians who were compelled to go to Congregational worship services, you are not compelled to fly. Stop trying to make it sound like freedom is being abridged, when all that is happening is that you want to be able to fly without complying with the requirements for doing so, requirements arrived at through reasonable consideration of all the obligations and objectives of the government and the agency, rather than just one passenger's personal preference.
Heck skater, most people agree on what works (or at least what works better) the problem is getting a nation of 300 million "individuals" all screaming "violations of our constitutional rights" to go for it. That is an interesting article, I read it a week or so ago, and of course I've flown out of Tel Aviv twice, I laugh seriously on the floor every time I think about what would happen the first time an American in the US, underwent the questioning I routinely go through in Tel Aviv. It's all very polite and I never feel embarrased or any thing but sorry, I just can't imagine us going for it.
