I do not favor the humiliation that we, as US citizens are forced to undergo in order to fly. Having said that, let me make this observation....
Terrorists watch what we do. If we gave young boys, grandmothers and nuns a pass through security wouldn't that be an invitation for the terrorists to use, young children, grandmothers and nuns?
I rather doubt that airline passengers would allow any in-flight attempts. We always seem to be closing the proverbial barn door after the horse has escaped. The terrorists have won when we subject our own citizens to these demeaning searches. There is even evidence that these searches, as demeaning as they are, would not have stopped last year's Christmas day attempt. If that is true, then what is the benefit of these enhanced searches?

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags