I ask you the same as Chuzzlewit.
Where do you draw the line?
Maybe I can explain it this way. Do you think anyone who is about to obliterate hundreds or thousands of people has the ability to engage in a normal conversation? the ability to look someone in the eye? There is a detachment that someone has who is about to commit a vile and despicable act.
Common sense has left us.
Yes, common sense has left us. Since when has this turned into acts of sexual harassment or abuse? That is what this is being turned into. If you think there are hundreds of TSA personnel out there who are undercover perverts and/or child molestors then indeed, common sense has left us.
You answered the question, in a way.
Instead of objecting to ANY patdown searches, we should be objecting to RANDOM selection of children, babies, nuns, and men in wheelchairs.
We should be objecting to the MUSLIMS getting a pass on searches.
We should object to Airport Security escorting potential terrorists AROUND checkpoints and searches. (Like they did with the underwear bomber, even though it wasn't in the US, how do you know they don't do the same here?).
OUR POLICE conduct the SAME type of searches. Do you object to that?
Probably not.
But, they don't select cars at RANDOM and conduct searches.