[monkeyshine]

I flew commercially a few weeks back and watched Middle Eastern males (a demographic group responsible for 100.0% of our current terrorist woes) walk onto flights without a glance from the "security" people there, while a 75-year-old caucasian woman was selected out of the same boarding line to take her shoes off, be patted down, and have her purse rifled through right there in front of everyone. Does that sound like the government "doing its job" to you?

Sounds like a joke to me. If your story is true, then these security measures are totally asinine.

[VOA]

Sounds like a joke to me. If your story is true, then these security measures are totally asinine.

Columnist (and speechwriter for The Gipper during the Reagan Administration) Peggy Noonan
described her self-disgust for not intervening when an elderly couple were
getting the full-bore search at the airport.

Travel guru Peter Greenburg (appears on NBC's Today Show and has radio show)
also lets it rip about the stupidity of our politically-correct (and practically insane)
search procedures.
Greenburg says he now ships his luggage via FedEx ahead of departure when he's
flying domestically. That's how messed up this system is.

[MSCASEY]

A family member of mine a 73-year-old caucasian woman had this happen to her earlier in the year it was no joke.
MCD

[MississippiMan]

Sounds like a joke to me. If your story is true, then these security measures are totally asinine.

No joke, monkeyshine, and this is not secondhand anecdotal information. I saw it with my own eyes. On my return trip, while waiting at the gate I was talking to a very nice older gentleman who was on a cane. He told me he was returning home from a funeral, and that it was his first time to fly in thirty years; it was plain to see the whole affair made him very nervous. While we were talking, they called his name over the area public address. The poor fellow made his way up to the counter where he found out he had been randomly selected for the treatment. I'll never forget the look on that old man's face as he was pulling off his shoes. He was utterly terrified.

MM

[kstewskis]

Sounds like a joke to me. If your story is true, then these security measures are totally asinine.

I just got an email from a friend of mine, saying his wife safely arrived in Texas from Phoenix yesterday with their 2 year old daughter. But not before she, her daughter's and and her luggage was searched....twice...and the "men of middle eastern" color were breezing through the security checkpoints without hesitation.

Sadly, I believe he speaks the truth.