You mean people like you, who seem to be crying and moaning because people are actually saying "Woah now, lets scale this back to something that seems more proportionate to the threat that exists here and follows our laws," challenging it instead of just saying "Ok? and accepting it as-is?
Get real.
Seriously, you and your ilk, the arrogance is really getting annoying. The condescending attitude towards those who merely disagree with the approach to airport security though may agree with the idea in of itself even to the point of painting a gross mischaracterization as if it made you folks look smart.
Really.
The problem is with the pat down method, and there is nothing wrong with saying that something doesn't seem right, even to take action and demand answers, proof that it is constitutional, safe, effective. It doesn't make you a coward, nor does it make a sniveling whatsit, it makes you somebody who is skeptical [reasonability of course being wholly dependent on how you go about asking the questions].
The scanners, and the pat downs have never been implemented before in the U.S, we've never had anything quite this invasive up until 8 years after 9-11, do you REALLY think people are not going to question its worth, invasiveness, constitutionality, or speak up, that everybody will just take it, and accept it at face value? Especially when operated by the undertrained, and infamously incompetent TSA agents, part of the larger TSA agency that has proven to have expressed [in some capacity] a strong hate towards accountability?
And just because YOU say it doesn't act as a violation to have the TSA's brand of patdowns doesn't make it so, you need to prove it just as much as those opposed to it need to prove / demonstrate its overly intrusive nature - and I say those opposed have done a far better job at that.