10 Oct 2011
Quote: Airport Security
This is what we get for disconnecting airport security from common sense. Might an adult diaper be used in a terrorist attack? Possibly. The Christmas Day attack used PETN hidden in a man’s briefs, which failed to explode when lit thanks to the incompetence of the bomber. But is it likely that a 95-year-old wheelchair-bound woman from Florida traveling to Michigan with her family will be an underwear bomber? Did this family provide any known indicators that would give a suspicion of terroristic intent?
If we’re groping small children and forcing incontinent elderly women to get on airplanes without their Depends — as happened in this case — then we’re doing airport security wrong. It’s long past time that we called a halt to random TSA groping sessions and start applying common sense to our screening procedures.
–Ed Morrissey