I can see the scenario now. The year is 2007 and SNASS (Strip-Naked-and-Ship-Stuff Security) is in full deployment. Hundreds of hapless souls, all stripped down to their standard issue nighties, are waiting in an endless queue for the chance to be scanned, sniffed, and probed by the security storm troopers. Dogs are led up and down the lines of people, using their finely tuned sniffers to search for faint traces of anally-implanted explosive devices. The identical scene can be observed at every concourse entrance in the airport. The fine citizens from the first world countries grumble about the inconvenience, but continue anyway knowing these measures will keep them safe from the ravages of deranged suicidal fruitcakes.
Then, on 7/9/2007 a strange thing happens. Simultaneously throughout the airport, at each mass of humiliated humanity, a clean cut businessman with a briefcase walks with quiet determination to the guide rope separating the human cattle from the usual array of family, friends, staff, and pre/post security passengers inhabiting the airport. Just before detonating his briefcase, each businessman gives a silent prayer of thanks that all of his victims have been so carefully gathered together for their execution. With the new security measures, it is no longer even necessary to reach the airplanes. /BOOM
It seems like passengers lose dignity with each security measure, but without a significant increase in safety. It doesn't matter what new measures are passed, human ingenuity will find a way to bypass them or make them irrelevant. Without the Intelligence leads, this might have been the 8/10 to follow the 9/11. Of course, flawed security is better than no security. It keeps the average riffraff from jacking airplanes.
edited to remove extra lines at the end
Edited, Aug 11th 2006 at 6:09pm EDT by Reednut