Somehow the Transportation Department managed to find 50,000 mostly middle aged people who were willing enough to go through their fellow citizens dirty laundry while taking themselves seriously at the same time!!

This is probably one of the most inefficient government operations I've had to deal with. And that's saying a lot.

The best airport security people I've dealt with are the Israelis. Those guys don't mess around, but they're very efficient. They have plenty of experience obviously, given their unique security needs. Our people are amateurs by comparison.

I half-way agree with TJGypsy2, we check for all these little things that could be used as weapons, yet guns and such are making it on board. With all of the scanners and security percausions you would think that we would detect them. I do think this is a big deal, look at 9/11, over 3,000 people died because of two planes. Now that we have all of this new tech. i think we will be able to be more accurate when detecting things but i still think that people will still be able to find other ways of bringing weapons on board.

Anybody else not feel safer because we are taking off our shoes and showing ID's?

I don't think this is all that important an issue, actually. Mostly because of the mess the government has made out of it. Now we have screeners going through bags looking for nail clippers and cigarette lighters, meanwhile guns and knives are still making it onto planes. Seems to me that it's just like it was, only much, much slower.