groundfine says: "The terrorist profile is carefully targetted which is why our closest relatives are prohibited from the flight deck."
And how would such carefullness work in the case of "the next" Timothy McVeigh, the all American blue eyed kid and decorated Desert Storm veteran who one day had decided to blow up the Oklahoma Federal building and take out 150+ innocent lives?
Computer generated random selections of individuals for secondary inspections at airport screening points would achieve the same level of security as 100% screening.
It's pretty hard to get into people's minds, and the herculean efforts, especially to screen out prospective suicidal terrorists, at every screening point at every airport will never be 100%.
Daily, millions of air travelers are inconvenienced and dehumanized at airport screening points because of hyped terrorism paranoia, when in fact terrorists, or prospective terrorists, represent less than one hundredth of one per cent of air travelers.