...We've allowed the government to run with this line of reasoning for far too long.
I agree. That's why I ask where the hell are the airports and airlines? One person alone cannot fight a federal bureaucracy at the street level and hope to remain un-incarcerated. It'll take states, municipalities, or industries.
What would the federal government do, if a major hub airport hired its own security tomorrow, de-authorized the security badges of every TSA agent, shut down the scanners, and told the federal government to pound sand? What would the federal government do in that scenario if that state's governor called out the National Guard to protect airport workers from intervention by the Feds, and forbade the federal government from interfering in any way with airport operations, or airport executive management?
What would the federal government do if the states of North Dakota and Montana mounted a joint effort and began issuing drilling permits right now in the Bakken Formation, with workers and execs protected by National Guard?
I think we NEED that type of showdown. The people have done what we can short of violent insurrection, and the federal government continues down the path of tyranny. We need our states, cities, and major infrastructure and institutions to tell the federal government to f*** off, and no, we won't be seeing you in court, because you've got no standing.
That is, after all, no less lawlessness than the federal government is demonstrating against the people of the sovereign states.