unixguy,
du to our past expereiences in France, I do not agree totaly.
You can have lugages that stay witout anybody aournd them, and these are protentials bombs.

Every body needs to be concerned about that; In these case, you could have peoople from inside (FA,...) helping for putting these things inside airports.

BTW, the new procedures seem to be more strict, but I took a transatlantic fligh yesterday, following a national US flight, and was suprised not to be requested more often to show my pass.