The ultimate idiocy is the full-body screening of the pilot. The pilot doesn't need a bomb or box cutter to bring down a plane. All he has to do is drive it into the water, like the EgyptAir pilot who crashed his plane off Nantucket while intoning "I rely on God," killing all on board.;-))
But we must not bring that up. We pretend that we go through this nonsense as a small price paid to ensure the safety of air travel. Rubbish. This has nothing to do with safety - 95 percent of these inspections, searches, shoe removals and pat-downs are ridiculously unnecessary. The only reason we continue to do this is that people are too cowed to even question the absurd taboo against profiling - when the profile of the airline attacker is narrow, concrete, uniquely definable and universally known. So instead of seeking out terrorists, we seek out tubes of gel in stroller pouches.
While I agree with all of that, I am disheartened that our fellow countrymen feel it is ok to disrupt the travel day and leave us vulnerable to further attacks.
I think it is moronic at best.
I also think singling out the worst of the worse and labeling the entire group ineffective is much like labeling all cops corrupt because of the actions of a few. Should we get rid of cops, firemen, teachers and any other profession that have more than a handful of over zealous or ineffective employees?
While the idiots are “feeling” the passangers to keep the airplane “safe”, we have gangsters by the hundreds WALKING across our borders with satchels of dope. We’ve even lost a ranch or 2 to dope cartels on American territory. But tsa personnel need to feel passengers up and down to keep ????? safe from terror.