Originally Posted by PatrickHenry1775

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. .....

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. .....

.... 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.