Originally Posted by
busyman
Airports- stepped up security....profiling accepted. Stop frisking old white grandmas.
I strongly agree with the first, America should have done this after lockerbie but it didn't. Civil liberties had nothing to do with it, money had everything to do with it. Europe got their act together especially with unaccompanied baggage, the USA ignored this, especially domestic flights.
But to the "old white grandmas". As unlikely as it may sound they
could be a threat. Drug smugglers use mules and once profiling is accepted as being well managed any potential hijacker could use grandma to get their "stuff" through security.
911 was planned. Imagine if a grandchild or other loved one was kidnapped and the ransom was to get stuff onto a plane. If we want to be secure we need to think outside the box as well as inside.
So profiling is essential but to stop the random searches of unlikely targets could be a mistake.
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