You forgot option 8: buy your own plane.

I figure if they want to scan or pat me down then it will cause all sorts of insecurities.
"yeah that's right...that thing is armed and dangerous buddy. Makes you wanna cry doesn't it?"

The TSA doesn't keep any of the confiscated items. They don't even get the proceeds from the sales of them.
The ammo and explosive type stuff goes to the cops.
Everything else goes to auction houses.
At PDX, it goes to Oregon Auction and gets sold to the public.

After the shoe bomb attempt, we started taking our shoes off.
After the underwear bomb attempt, we got body scans and pat searches.
All we need now is for a terrorist to get caught with an explosive up his ass. The pat searches will just be foreplay then.
Oh, and maybe a terrorist can ingest balloons of explosives, then we'll all have to take laxatives and clear our guts out for security before getting on a plane.

You have to remember. The TSA is only in the USA.
All the other countries use gov't workers. Almost the same as the military in those countries.
they have laws and rules and if you don't like them, they throw your ass out of their country.