I don't think that anyone is arguing against the need for greater security. If you have no right or need to be somewhere then you don't go there, no matter who you were or are. It does go a bit pear shaped occassionally but it's better to be held up for the wrong reasons than to be let in for the wrong reasons.
Melchett: my bread van comment was purely tongue in cheek, although if you go back twenty years I bet I wouldn't be far off the mark.