>Easy for you to say - you can get in a car, train or bus and go somewhere...I don't have that option.
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>I am amazed at how bloody ridiculous some people can be. I've been patted down before - it's quick and clinical. The guy on the news who complained about someone "touching his junk" is an ass-clown. Nobody ever died from embarrassment

I am amazed at how bloody quickly some people hand over their individual rights to powerful institutions. I wouldn't die from embarrassment but why should a trip begin by being groped at the airport checkpoint? Travel used to be an adventure. Now it's an ordeal, at least the parts in airports.

The whole charade doesn't accomplish anything other than a false sense of security anyway. If I really wanted to take down a plane I could probably think of 10 ways to do it. How are latex gloved hands going where Grandma hasn't felt hands in years going to make us safer?