Airport Security

Where does the media find these Morons that say on camera, "Yes, whatever it takes to keep us secure and safe," "I'm OK with the 'increased security.'" "Sure, it's another inconvenience but I feel more safe." Hopefully they have to interview 7-8 passengers to find one who's OK with it. Who out there does not understand that the TSA is all about the APPEARANCE of Security ? As a retired Airline Captain, I can assure you that we are and have been LESS secure since 9/11 because PROFILING was stopped. Several months after 9/11, a list of 30 or so statements describing the 9/11 hijackers circulated thru most Pilot and Flight Attendant Crew Rooms - statements that described the men, but we knew such men would NOT be 'chosen' by TSA for additional screening because it would be politically incorrect to single them out. So instead we have little old Ladies using walkers and canes, young Mothers with 2-3 babies, business men/women who are frequent fliers -- when is the last time you went thru airport security and saw a man (or) woman of Middle Eastern descent getting "additional attention" from security personnel ?? The 'Shoe Bomber' = we all have to take off our shoes for x-ray (including Flight Crews) - even though most machines in use today cannot detect what Richard Reed had in his shoe soles (he was boarded outside the US, on an inbound flight TO the USA). Some note was found in England indicating it might be possible to mix liquids and take it on an aircraft, but they hadn't figured out how to 'trigger' such a liquid (again, boarded outside the US, on an inbound flight TO the USA) -- no such liquid was ever placed on an aircraft - but since then "no liquids allowed thru Security" - but you can buy them on the concourse and take your liquids on the airplane no questions asked. Now, to divert attention from the miserable failings of non-US "Airport Security" all the buzz is about "full body scanners/xray machines." When are you Morons going to wake up -- the Christmas Day screw-up didn't go thru security in Amsterdam because he had already been thru 'security' in Lagos, Nigeria and as an "International Connecting Passenger" there was no requirement to do so -- "Full Body Scanners" would NOT have caught him - do you get it ??? Probably not.