''Does anyone honestly believe that making a show of frisking senior citizens, toddlers or military personnel keep us any safer or deter some jihadi ready to lose his life killing infidels for Allah?Some will accuse me of advocating for racial or ethic "profiling" at airports...Guilty as charged.''
In October of 2004, I learned first-hand just how serious our federal government is about defending us from terrorists who threaten airliners; it isn't. I was at Boston's Logan Airport, and had just checked in for my one-way flight to Baltimore where I would board a charter flight bound for Qatar. From there I was to take a military transport into Afghanistan where I would spend the next several months - I was an officer in the U.S. Air Force. My one-way ticket to BWI automatically triggered a call for additional screening at the security checkpoint. Dozens of other people breezed through the magnetometers and retrieved their checked and carry-on bags from the x-ray machines' conveyor belts as I, military orders in hand that denoted my 'top secret' security clearance, dutifully removed my jacket, boots and dogtags and watched as a TSA(Totally Stupid *sses?) agent who could barely speak English rifle through the big green bags containing my uniforms and other gear issued to me for the deployment. http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_165753.asp