Kaikohe, all that the above shows is that the 'screening' you went through was 'pleasant' and designed to stop you or anyone else carrying a weapon past that point. At no stage were you assessed for risk of malicious intent. Once past those security 'screenings', had you any malicious intent you would be easily able to purchase any number of items that could be used as weapons.
The whole charade of airport security as you see it and have pointed out above is nothing more than eye candy for the travelling public and a newly built empire for some politicians to enhance their over inflated egos with their own importance and pomposity. The security screening we have at airports at the moment is a sham and the original post on this thread goes to show exactly why some form of pax profiling is more important that the compulsory confiscation of paper clips. As was proved on 9/11, it was the intent and not the actual weapon that was more dangerous.
Let's all continue to put our collective heads in the sand and let the imbecillic politicians and their bureaucratic civil servants dictate policies on security when it is fairly obvious to any of us who work in the industry that the results of their actions are little more than farce and ineptitude.
