Originally Posted by n5667
Well, Richard Reid didn't exist before 9/11, and considering cases such as Lockerbie, perhaps it is good to have bags searched... Planes seem to be a popular, symbolic target for terrorists - and screening for incidents that have already occured doesn't seem so terribly illogical...
I agree we should have had some sort of bag searching going on "after Lockerbie," but for crying out loud, it was what...13 years after the incident?
Face it, TSA is an overreaction of epic proportions, on several different levels.