First off, your reading skills need some improvement. I do not believe I mentioned children anywhere. I did mention babies in strollers and if you have any proof of babies in strollers being used by terrorists, let us all know. Maybe I was not specific enough.
But, since you wish to talk children lets do so. I have personally witnessed the TSA pulling children out of line for additional security. Oriental children, white children in the age range of 5-10 years old. Again political correctness at its worst and something that will not enhance our security. But then again, maybe I am wrong. Please let us all know all the times an oriental or white child was used in a bombing and I will be happy to admit my mistake.
I also see that you did nothing to dispute my contention that focusing on grandmothers, priests, old white men, etc. is a waste of time and resources, all in the name of political correctness.
The TSA has hired too many low life scum and given them enormous power over us, all in the name of security. But even if they were all Mensa members, the TSA does not have them focus on (profile) those types of people that history has shown are the most likely to carry out a terrorist act. That does not enhance our security whatsoever but actually diminishes it by stretching resources out.
You don't happen to work for the TSA or know people that do?
Nope.
You know, I agree with much of what else you had to say, but I do get tired of cheap shots like this. I understand that it's fun to feel superior to people that are in a lower caste in life. Yay for us "smart" people.
But I think shots like that are unfair and needlessly demeaning. Security staff like TSA agents have a difficult job to do, every day. All day they deal with nothing but smug, rude and obnoxious jerks that all know how to do the job better and who take out their hatred of flying on the "help".
No, I don't work for the TSA or anything like it. I'm just somebody that does travel a lot and I see a lot of screeners at airports. I've never been treated rudely by anyone other than obnoxious passengers. I happen to have some sympathy for the screeners because the only thing that'll get their name in the paper is to fail once, and they put up with a whole lot of really REALLY stupid passengers without losing their cool. I'm not sure I could.
Like the lady in line ahead of me a while back that must have, I kid you not, been wearing every piece of freaking metal jewelry she owned, a studded belt and collar, studded shirt, and thigh-high lace-up boots with metal studs all over them... she was a freak show. Did she not know she was getting on a plane when she got dressed? And then... SHE has the nerve to get all bent out of shape and whine and bitch about the "hassle" she was getting just trying to get through the metal detector. You wanna talk low IQ's? There's one, and there's a line of people like her that hit that checkpoint day after day.
So yeah, I cut 'em a little slack.
You are very wrong and such thinking is very dangerous. The minute you exclude a class of people you create a group of people that can be either willing or unwilling dupes that would be used by terrorists. This would put these people in unnecessary danger and create a hole in our security that can be exploited.