Airport Security

The glaringly obvious hole in airport security is the political correctness that requires everyone to go through the same security check. Does a 75 year old grandmother from Memphis -who flies regularly - really need to go through the same security check as a 23 year old Nigerian Muslim, who has Yemen stamped on his passport? El Al Airlines is the most secure airline in the world and their first line of defense is psychological profiling. Once someone is flagged (for whatever reason), they must go through a gauntlet of intense security questioning and inspection. The USA is too big and our resources are too limited to examine everyone using the same methods - and the result was what happened on Flight 253. We need to focus our airport security resources on those who are most likely to fit the profile of a terrorist: Individuals traveling either alone or in groups, between the age of 16-45, who may appear to be Islamic, have an Islamic name, have traveled in the past to Europe, Africa, Indonesia or the Mideast, and who appear nervous and can’t easily explain their past or where they are going . Does anyone remember the last time a 50 year old blonde haired Swede, or a 80 year old couple from Stuttgart blew up a plane?


I understand the implications of profiling to one’s civil rights, but we’re not talking about the horrible internment that happened to the Japanese during WW2. We must allow our society to protect itself from an enemy that has no boundaries, and views our civil sensibilities as a weakness to be exploited. After all, doesn't society - as a whole - have the civil right to be protected while in the air?