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Originally Posted by Fobulous
Although I am not all for the pat downs I think they are our best alternative. The other alternative being a terrorist with a bomb comes aboard my flight.
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Really? It's either you get patted down OR a terrorist is on YOUR flight? I had no idea they were so intent on getting you - are you Salman Rushdie? That fatwa still applies to you?
This kind of thinking is what gets dumb regulations like this passed in the first place. Proper risk assessment isn't an either/or proposition. How many successful hijackings/bombings of planes have happened in North America since 9/11? Isn't it zero? If anything, we should be looking for ways to make security less intrusive, not more annoying, as time is valuable - even air travellers' time, contrary to the assumption that people should put up with wasting theirs to be "safe".