[NormsRevenge]

I used to travel a lot , I don't anymore. I am glad you have become as accustomed as the rest of those doing it daily.

If having double the delays involved is OK with you and others, great.

I think it's just a damn shame that our gubamint is so clueless or unwilling to go after the real high percentage potential perps and instead just nets the whole damn lot and spoil journies and inflame folks unnecessarily.

[reformedliberal]

I have no problem with profiling, but it wouldn't mean a thing with delays and security intrusions. There are blond Muslims, Anglo girlfriends of Muslims. The mother of one of the jihadi arrested in the UK was English and his father was an Iranian
who drank alcohol.

They could waste their time examining me, because I look Middle Eastern. And I am a 63-yr-old Midwestern lady. I could be the mother of a jihadi.

I no longer fly a lot, either. But the flying I did after 9/11 wasn't the horror I had been led to believe. I have had worse delays, plane malfunctions, reroutings and lost luggage before.

The Brits and those Americans I saw/heard today were wonderful. Except for Schumer, they displayed calm and patience in the face of suddenly arduous changes in security, along with the fear they must have experienced.

That is how I believe we need to react. Getting angry and looking for someone close at hand (the government) to blame and scapegoat is juvenile, IMO.

Our enemies can at least take comfort that the Bush Administration will get blamed for the situation, instead of the terrorists.