What I can tell you is that if my disabled mother had had to get out of her car and be searched just to drive down to the airport and meet me on the curb outside the terminal every time I came home, she'd have raised unholy hell with everyone in sight. Had I been forced to do the same and then submit to ADDITIONAL security checks just to see my fiancee off last Christmas I'd have been a bit upset, too.
That first check is a very brief one, no search involved but just asking those two questions and looking at how you behave while answering them, since their focus is on behaviour rather than forbidden items. For most people this'll be a 5-10 second stop before you're on your way.
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So, people travelling in the US tomorrow: are you opting out? 
- 23/11/2010 10:45:03 PM
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- 23/11/2010 10:45:03 PM
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How did the NYTimes phrase this again... oh yes.
- 23/11/2010 11:42:29 PM
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This article about "Isrealification" is interesting
- 24/11/2010 12:54:59 AM
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We have that saying here, too.
- 24/11/2010 01:50:03 AM
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Re: We have that saying here, too.
- 24/11/2010 02:05:09 AM
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a loaded gun clip was found left on a plane by an off-duty cop just today in fact....
- 24/11/2010 05:06:15 AM
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You're missing the point
- 24/11/2010 09:48:42 AM
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The thing about the gun just proves how good the behavioural profiling is.
- 25/11/2010 09:49:55 AM
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If all goes as they say it does, it sounds like a very good system *NM*
- 24/11/2010 04:23:42 AM
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No, US air traffic controllers don't go on strike.
- 24/11/2010 01:37:30 AM
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I've got no problem with the scanners, but people are welcome to object
- 24/11/2010 02:20:25 AM
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I see some sheep have replied to your post. *NM*
- 24/11/2010 03:17:00 AM
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I assume you are less than fond of the situation, then? *NM*
- 24/11/2010 03:25:45 AM
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You assume correctly.
- 24/11/2010 03:44:23 AM
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If grandmas aren't getting groped at the airport...
- 24/11/2010 04:38:50 AM
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just out of curiousity, do either you or litdog have any solutions?
- 24/11/2010 04:59:07 AM
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Stop adding useless and invasive procedures. *NM*
- 24/11/2010 05:19:23 AM
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yes that's all well and good.
- 24/11/2010 05:37:01 AM
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It would be the same as it was before this nonsense. EDITED
- 24/11/2010 06:18:57 AM
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if that's what your comfortable with, then. Fair enough *NM*
- 24/11/2010 06:22:46 AM
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Read my edit for what I think is a bit more balanced. *NM*
- 24/11/2010 06:29:11 AM
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*NM*
- 24/11/2010 06:29:11 AM
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And yah, it sounds like you're a bit like me.
Become the enemy and they win, but is this is really a Civil Rights issue?
- 24/11/2010 02:16:43 PM
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At least have the decency to refer to us as 'sheeple' *NM*
- 24/11/2010 03:39:47 AM
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You didn't seem to be among the sheep. 
*NM*
- 24/11/2010 03:45:06 AM
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*NM*
- 24/11/2010 03:45:06 AM
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i will make sure to pat my girlfriend down before we get in the car and start driving 
*NM*
- 24/11/2010 05:16:43 AM
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*NM*
- 24/11/2010 05:16:43 AM
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Only morons fly in the U.S. on Thanksgiving day. *NM*
- 24/11/2010 05:42:04 PM
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Here's a report on the scanners, that you might just want to get felt up.
- 24/11/2010 08:56:09 PM
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I'm half-tempted to engage in some frottage with the girlfriend while waiting in the pat-down line.
- 25/11/2010 03:43:47 AM
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