[DustyMoment]

We have indulged in the sham of airline security since long before 9/11. Recent events haven't changed a thing. Neither the TSA, DHS, nor the Bush Administration are serious about airline security as long as profiling is not part of the security procedures. Making grannies and 4 year-old children take their shoes off while Middle Eastern men between the ages of 17 and 40 walk through the "security" screening untouched, is just BS.

Until we get serious about screening and quit the "Show 'n Tell" method of security screening that makes idiots think they are safe aboard commercial aircraft, we will be attacked and threatened again.

[Reily]

The problem is not TSA, DHS & the Bush administration.
Its the "Plague of Lawyers" that will spring into action at the slightest perception of discrimination. We have allowed egalitarianism to be such a sacred concept that we now blindly follow it to our detriment.
TSA, DHS etc bureaucrats are just reacting defensively to this plague. Look bureaucrat bashing is a favorite past time on FR but 99% of these people actually want to do the right thing when it comes to airport security. However fear of as a minimum having one's career ruined or as a maximum one's life ruined by the 'aggrieved discrimination victim' does not encourage intelligent vigilance. Much of this plague we have allowed to occur because we as a society have allowed the culture of victimolgy to talk root. (A lot of it is pure greed and classy envy on the publics part, where they look at a corporation or individual and see 'deep pockets'!)