I think the main problem with all this TSA behavior is, you are being presumed guilty. It leaves most of us with an ugly feeling of outrage.
Were I a terrorist, I might find a nearly dead old lady a good place to hide a bomb. I don’t know. I don’t know enough about bombs. But in a baby’s diaper or an old lady’s handbag or a retarded man’s backpack, maybe I’d think that’s a good place to hide something.
But the negative is, that baby or old lady or retarded man is absolutely personally innocent and is being treated like a criminal being transferred to prison.
I think there should be “search” and “no search” airlines. Let capitalism work. If you’d rather be “safer” and get your full body scan, go on a “search” airline. If you’d rather avoid the intrusive/possibly dangerous searches, go on a “no-search” airline. Let the market decide. Leaves options for all of us.
In Iraq and Israel, the terrorists are using children and the handicapped to carry bombs. However, they haven't done this in the US. They don't have to, because Homeland Security doesn't think young men from Yemen with one-way tickets and no luggage screaming "Allah Akbar!" are a security threat. Why take the trouble to hide a bomb when you can just walk on the plane and attack?
Not only are we presumed guilty, we are also subjected to unreasonable search in violation of our Constitutional rights.
When someone does not have the remotest chance of being a terrorist, and that person is forced to remove their adult diaper, that, my friend, is unreasonable search in violation of a Constitutional right.
Were I a terrorist....Well, first of all...you’d probably be a Muslim..........
“a “no-search” airline” with profiling
An anus is "a good place to hide a bomb." Let's begin checking everyone there.
Why would a terrorist want to try to plant a bomb on someone's grandmother? Even if it were conceivable, I would tend to think that someone - granny or someone around her - would have something to say about a Middle Easterner putting bombs on her.
Were I a terrorist, I would hide a bomb inside the body. None of it would be hanging on the outside inside someone’s diapers. Induction coupling would provide the detonation pulse to set off the nitroglycerin implants.