Originally Posted by cb1111

The people who understand security agree as well. It is the paranoid group that thinks that they understand security (but in reality are clueless) that disagree with anything that the Government does.

It is funny, I travel a great deal (on a plane at least once a week for the past 6 months) in various airports in the US and have yet to be groped or asked to do anything but walk through the WTMD. I must be doing something wrong because I'm not subjected to the indignities that the tin foil crew is exposed to.

Maybe my mistake is that I take everything out of my pockets and stow it in my carryon before I get to the checkpoint. I remove my watch (and only have been asked once to remove my belt) and put my shoes on the conveyor. I've never even had my carryon pulled aside for an inspection.

I've even been known to say "Good morning" to the guy or gal checking my boarding pass against my ID.

Obviously everyone is shocked by some of the stupid things that happen at times but even the tin foil crew has to admit that they are isolated cases given the sheer amount of passengers transiting airports every day.

Come to think of it, in the last month or so I've only seen one pax pulled out of line for additional screening. Perhaps I'm traveling in a parallel universe.

Or maybe it is that I don't expect to get hassled and so I don't.