Wherever one stands on the rules, their application, potential use of discretion etc etc. I strongly suspect that most of us could accept most of it if the attitude of the enforcing MUPPETS!!!!! was not so entirely unnecessary, unjustifiable and apparently unquestionable. Higher authorities should be all over this, I'm sure they've been told many times. In a country desperate to be demonstrably equal opportunity, minority protecting, politically correct in the extreme, how come Airline Crews are allowed to be harassed, publically embarrassed, treated with disrespect with the threat of rapid escalation to even more invasive, delay producing procedures.