I think that it goes to show what a complete farce this security charade has become. It is now high time that a conference in sanctioned to allow knowledgeable, pragmatic experts (not politicians or anybody with vested interests in the security behemoth!) and pilot and engineering reperesentatives to come up with a practical and logical set of procedures that allow the front-line people in this industry to get on with their jobs unmolested, the travelling public to proceed on their lawful business and implement effective screening and profiling measures to actually identify the potential bad people (and not necessarily the 'terrorist').