Originally Posted by Old NFO
I think the only thing you are really doing with the "new" screening process is keeping the honest people honest...
Just like the PC number of certain ethnicities you can screen per flight, so you "have" to check the little old ladies, or take the Medal of Honor away from an 86 year old veteran named Joe Foss and pass it around, then say he can't have it back because it has sharp edges.
Give us a break.
The fact is that certain ethnic minorities get the haraSSSSment screening at a higher percentage than Americans of European ethnicities.
So while you see "PC police" at work, the TSA is actually "extra-"screening "certain ethnicities" far more frequently than the general population and also screening them far more thoroughly/often as percentage of their trips. I don't see what the complaint is -- unless it relates to advocating an apartheid system of racist profiling that faces resistance. Foreigners get screened per the haraSSSSment standard more often too. Maybe the lists should be expanded? I think not!
Yes, the "'new' screening process" at the WTMD-area security checkpoints in the US are bothering "honest people" more than anyone.