Originally Posted by Bart
I think a lot of you miss the point behind tsadude's link to the powerpoint presentation on IEDs. The bad guys are quite creative in finding ways to disguise improvised explosive devices, and a bunch of you are still complaining about having to take off your shoes. While Richard Reid's shoe-bomb was very crude, it nonetheless was actually attempted. Credit the bad guys for conducting their versions of after-action reviews, summing up lessons-learned and coming up with better ways to improve IED attacks. The choice is simple: putting up with the inconvenience of having to remove your shoes or surviving the consequences of underestimating the bad guys.
And what will be the response if one of the "bad guys" not-so-creatively puts a bomb in their underwear or their butt?
I will never willingly tolerate the stupid, useless, un-American "inconvenience" of having to remove my shoes because it prevents nothing. And I hope that those who continue to espouse this idiocy are fired with prejudice for supporting this ineffective solution when other effective, non-invasive solutions are available.