[Samwise]

My (Now 8 year old) daughter has been pulled out twice for "random" screening.

As sad as that is, this is the world we live in today. The next mother-murderer-bomber could be a recent convert who doesn't fit the profile and will gladly sent her child to Allah.

[Mrs.Liberty]

I'll be the first to admit, she can be a terrorist at times, but she is not quite in the league of what we SHOULD be profiling for.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

As sad as that is, this is the world we live in today. The next mother-murderer-bomber could be a recent convert who doesn't fit the profile and will gladly sent her child to Allah.

I agree. That old lady in a walker could have had some sort of explosive device inserted into her walker by a grandson who recently converted to Islam, that white guy with the last name of Smith might be a fanatical devotee of Islam, that little girl might have parents who think nothing of using her to transport explosives onto the plane. Better safe than sorry.

[originalbuckeye]

My mother, in her initial stage of Alzheimer's, was taken into a 'private' room because they couldn't swab the top of her metal leg brace. I had mistakenly let her put her slacks on after she put on her full leg brace. It was humiliating. She took it well, I didn't.