Originally Posted by pmocek

... Searching everyone who passes to look for any indication of wrongdoing is unamerican and unconstitutional, no matter how much crime it would allow you to detect. Your job is not to detect crime; it's to keep dangerous items off airplanes....

... They seem to think that living in a police state is desirable

Originally Posted by pmocek

And what you don't seem to understand is that even if you call it a search for potatoes, and you really think you're looking for potatoes, if you have a list of other things that you're supposed to watch out for, then you're really searching for those other things. There's just no way around it. You look in a bag, and you ignore everything except for certain things. That's a search for those things.