I respectfully disagree. That WOULD be the case if airport screening was the ONLY type of security being used in the hunt for terrorist activity. But it's safe to say there is a much larger system involving dozens of agencies around the world. I feel pretty confident that they are far more fine-tuned into finding the threats than the need to just "search everyone." I have long believed that the vast majority of the security measures in airports are nothing more than an elaborate show - providing the sheeple in our country with a false sense of security and justification for the spending of billions of dollars. It's been quite successful as evidenced by the sheer number of people who parrot back the "anything is better than nothing" mantra. Sorry, but common sense still has to be a part of the equation.
And while I of course know that Muslim is a religion and not a nationality, the terrorists who have shown the desire and ability to attack us ARE of a very limited number of nationalities. That's just fact. Sure, the possibility exists that some random white American kid can be radicalized, but the likelihood is so statistically minute that it has to be a consideration. There are millions of other equally unlikely "it could happen" scenarios that we are doing absolutely nothing to address, and never could. I just will NEVER see any justification to search the genital areas of US Citizen children boarding domestic flights. If terrorists are THAT good that they can make a weapon of little Johnny Smith with no other part of our vast National Security system picking up on it, then maybe they deserve to sneak one through on us.
Until that happens, I can't support the "just frisk everyone" approach by calling it a great plan.
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