OFBSLF - no argument with that, but your comment is not in the least relevant to the point being made: we do not have a TRUE Police State of course, but it is rapidly going that way. All I am saying is - to those people who live in Britain (you obviously don't) - make constructive complaints about many of the things, including the way people are treated at airports, to those responsible or allegedly in charge. And don't bother making life for the "workers" harder than ever, so that they get a jaundiced view about (in this case) passengers.
What we should not do is nothing. The dicotomy is that we don't want to be a nation of whingers.