Jay, <BR> <BR>We are presently at war with individuals with no regard for human life, even their own. Many are presently situated in over 60 countries including the US. There goal is to kill innocent people and disrupt our way of life. While you are concerned about racially profiling these poor individuls, I prefer to stay alive and hopefully use all means possible to prevent another disaster like the one we had on 9-11. <BR>

Surely decent security and profits don’t have to be mutually exclusive? I don’t know much about El-Al and whether it has any kind of state subsidy, but certainly in Europe tight security has been the norm for a long time. New airlines seem to pop up all the time in Britain, so obviously there must be profits to be made even with the bag counting, scanning of all luggage, metal detectors etc etc. <BR> <BR>Everyone’s luggage should be scanned and everyone should be put through a metal detector turned up to the highest sensitivity, then searched at the slightest bleep. <BR> <BR>But I agree with a previous poster that it’s bombs put on planes by people with access to them from outside the terminals that we’ve got more to worry about now rather than terrorists with box cutters. Much of the effort must be concentrated here. After all we witnessed on Sept. 11, the previous rules of the hijack game have changed. If anyone started causing a disturbance on a plane wielding knives etc do you seriously think everyone would just sit there? I'd be among the first to jump on them. <BR> <BR>Kate <BR>

John and Bob are morons.<BR><BR>The terrorists are not. It obviously took some smarts to pull off the first attack. So they KNOW now that police, etc. will be extra vigilant around men who have Middle Eastern features. Consequently, they are going to use that 70-year-old grandmother-looking type or a young white frat boy-type to pull off the next attack.<BR><BR>USE YOUR HEADS! Look at how other terrorist groups operate. For example, the IRA knows the physical stereotype that the British police and Army are alert to. So their bombings and attacks are performed by the people you'd least expect.<BR>

I laugh every time I read these threads on security and flying. There is no more security than prior to 911, just longer iines. However, living in a country where murders are a common accordance, along with rapes, drive by shottings, etc, I can't help but wonder what everyone is thinking? Do you expect Bush or anyone else to protect you from yourselves? That's absurd. So many complaining about anthrax but not getting a flu shot. But then a flu shot paralzes some. So what to do? I wish all of you who are complaining will just stay home so the flights aren't so full. And those great deals are disappearing as more and more people fly. So go ahead and make everyone afraid again so I can get those deals and not have to be on such full flights.