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iflyabeech wrote: I have been inconvenienced by security measures since 9/11. I take this inconvenience knowing that my inconvenience is saving lives.

LOL! Can you show documentation of even *one* incident, where increased airport "security" since 9/11 can back up a reasonable claim that they "saved lives"? As much as they try to hype their "successes", even the feeble results that they *do* garner tend to be due to good 'ol fashioned police work catching wannabes before they even get to the airport.

On the other hand, they've proven rather spectacularly that they couldn't catch a bomb if their lives depended on it. http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=67166

Take Richard Reid. The man who was too stupid to figure out how to set off possibly The Most Basic Bomb Ever Devised was smart enough to sail through post-9/11 airport security with it.

Your perceived "safety" is nothing but a delusion.

-Xander

iflyabeech wrote:Boy....so how exactly do you fellas propose that we fight terrorism? Just let them drive into our airports with car bombs? Or let them plan terrorist acts on the phone with no way to listen in? come on now. . . This is not time for the hypothetical "big brother is watching!" They are not looking for you or me or our guns. . .

The first thing I propose is that you learn the difference between "security" and "security theater". Taking away penknives, water bottles, and searching cars is not security. The TSA's own security audits have shown repeatedly and consistently that they allow bombs (and simulated bombs) through airport security at an alarming rate.

-Xander

EDIT: Here's an excellent article explaining what, exactly, security theater is, and why the "enhancements" to airport security since 9/11 are nothing more. http://www.schneier.com/essay-095.html