I do not think that anybody who advocates profiling, i.e. paying more attention to members of a group that many times have vowed to destroy the West, thereby proposes to exempt anyone from minimum screening. All passengers should go through metal detectors and have their bags X-rayed. In fact, this minimum procedure is what detected the IED - a screener saw the IED during the X-ray examination of idiot passenger's carry-on bag.

Those of us who advocate profiling think it is common sense not to waste limited resources on additional screening of Norwegian grandmothers (to use a group that several columnists have recently written about in columns) who do not alarm WTMD or bags indicate prohibited items, when members of that group have not demonstrated any indication to be a threat. In order to maximize the effectiveness of the $5.5 billion dollars spent annually on TSA, some of us think it is only common sense to concentrate on the likeliest threats, i.e. foreign male Muslims. They are the members of the class of people that have repeatedly expressed a desire to attack the U.S. Of course, if anyone else is suspicious, such as alarming the WTMD when no metal is apparent, X-ray of baggage indicates a problem, or odd bulges on person, then additional screening is required, even if that person is a Norwegian grandmother. This approach to additional screening is consistent with 4th Amendment jurisprudence, common sense, and practice at courthouses and other public areas.