Originally Posted by Bart
Third of all, are you suggesting that old people, children, people in wheelchairs, people with prosthetics, etc be exempt from screening purely out of sympathy for their circumstances? Do you truly believe that terrorists have the same respect towards people in these circumstances as you do?
Can't have it both ways. Convenience and security are designed (there goes that word again) to be at odds with each other.
Wrong! Trading
liberty (which Bart dishonestly trivializes by calling it convenience) for security is a false dichotomy. We need to be safe and free. If the best security measure we can come up with for fifty billion dollars is harassment of the elderly and the rest of the flying public, then the DHS is in the grips of a truly mind-boggling "failure of the imagination".
Real security measures start way, way before the boarding gate. Once a plot gets to that point, any terrorist coalition could have waged much more extensive destruction while avoiding checkpoints altogether.