I am no longer certain that this is about certain people making money, or abusing the system, or making pax feel safer, or any of that.
Someone pointed out that in the time since 9/11, we've had 400,000 deaths on the road, 150,000 deaths by handgun, X00,000 deaths from cancer, aids, etc. etc. etc., thousands dieing in foreign wars, etc. etc. etc. The economy is in the tank, millions have lost their homes - worldwide, jobs are still moving overseas, from first world countries to third world countries, at an alarming rate. Countries like China now have incredible economic power - countries that are are not entirely stable. Etc. Etc. Etc
And what are we focused on? invasive searches in the airport.
How interesting that someone, somewhere, or some group of someones have managed to get the public to believe that the governments are "protecting" us by having us go through this screening process at the airport. !Whoopee!
Think about this, next week, some terrorist is going to have a fake bomb in his rectum, and in a month we're going to have cavity searches at the airport, and the government will say they are justified in doing it.
As soon as it's "accepted" at the airports, they'll start doing it on the subway.
The similarities between what's happening and what has happened in the past are scary.