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.

This entire tirade is the quintessential example of Americans who live under the delusion of "entitlement".

If you don't like it...DON'T FLY.

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?

That isn't what this is about, and you know it. (or maybe you don't).

One of the reasons that our enemies laugh their butts off at us, is that they know the minute they attack us, they can always count on the good old American Snivel Liberties Union to (unknowingly but effectively) do their bidding. I once had the opportunity (if you could call it that) to talk to someone who celebrated the 9/11 attack - he said, "we can always count on bleeding hearts in the United States to weaken the country".