Controlling 'Sheep' to make them feel better...
I get a bit disgusted with a lot of the Mickey Mouse 'anti-terrorism' reports.
It boils down to a lot of psychological 'crowd control' and the 'appearance of safety'. What's spooky - is that a real 'terrorist' will not be stopped by all these measures. When one goes back and looks at all the 1000's of military personnel from various middle-eastern and Asian countries who have actually over the last few decades been trained in the USA by the US military in all sorts of 'warfare schools' it's obvious that the real problem is beyond the scope of 'someone acting odd in a line at the airport'. Osama Bin Laden has actually had top lieutenants who were officers in US Special Forces. I know a friend who travels frequently to Eastern Europe who is always given a rigorous search - and is alway cleared - and it's always a joke...because he fits a 'profile'. Too many folks use profiles so they don't think instead of using them to sharpen their thinking. The Pan Am 103 flight would not have fit any profile. What worries me a bit is that there are quite a few 'unstable' or 'fragile'people who travel - and I wonder sometimes if bearing down on them a bit too much might backfire and cause some security problems that might not otherwise happen. There's been at least one shooting and killing by an Air Marshall of a passenger who had a history of Bipolar Disorder and was not a real threat but who did act out hysterically...
