Unbelievable. I wish I knew how to put this video on my blog, but it's (not yet) on YouTube. The incident took place in Grand Rapids and is reported on WCCM13-TV. You've GOT TO SEE THIS VIDEO. Does this young woman look like a terrorist to you? All the indications are there, right? (For my previous post on airport security click here.)
Charles Krauthammer nails it:
...everyone knows that the entire apparatus of the security line is a national homage to political correctness. Nowhere do more people meekly acquiesce to more useless inconvenience and needless indignity for less purpose. Wizened seniors strain to untie their shoes; beltless salesmen struggle comically to hold up their pants; 3-year-olds scream while being searched insanely for explosives - when everyone, everyone, knows that none of these people is a threat to anyone.
The ultimate idiocy is the full-body screening of the pilot. The pilot doesn't need a bomb or box cutter to bring down a plane. All he has to do is drive it into the water . . .
But we must not bring that up. We pretend that we go through this nonsense as a small price paid to ensure the safety of air travel. Rubbish. This has nothing to do with safety - 95 percent of these inspections, searches, shoe removals and pat-downs are ridiculously unnecessary. The only reason we continue to do this is that people are too cowed to even question the absurd taboo against profiling - when the profile of the airline attacker is narrow, concrete, uniquely definable and universally known. So instead of seeking out terrorists, we seek out tubes of gel in stroller pouches. . . .
-- TSA Forces 12 Year-Old Girl Traveling Without Parents Through Naked Scanner