nah man, you don't get it.
the reason we haven't been attacked since 9/11 has nothing to do with the enhanced security at the lines that lead into the airport terminal. that guy with the bomb in his pants wasn't caught in the security line. he was caught in his seat - on the plane - because he was obviously an amateur bombmaker. if not for his being an idiot, his attack would have gone on without a hitch.
it's basically the same case with the would-be Times Square bomber.
nobody caught him until after the fact. we just got lucky because he f*cked up.
sure, some people feel violated by the extra security measures.
but that's not the point. the point is that all the extra measures are simply unnecessary. they don't make us any more safe. they're expensive, time consuming, and a hassle.
careful, your ignorance is showing.
attacks will happen in spite of full body scanners and pat-downs.
it's true that the underpants guy would have been caught. but that's one case concerning one guy who was obviously poorly trained and apprehensive. you're not thinking about hardened, determined, and better trained terrorists. because REAL terrorists will find a way around anything we could possibly throw at them.
you can't fight terrorism at the airport.
once it gets there, it's too late.
So you'd rather just do away (with stane mother!) with these new security measures and just wait for someone to walk onto an airplane and blow it up, and have zero chance of getting caught through any of these new security devices?
Attacks will happen, that's obvious and you are correct for stating that fact, but if you don't try to stop them, it's just going to make it really super awsome easy for them to carry out the attack against the plane and/or people.
You said that we haven't had an attack since 9/11, and it's NOT because of the security measures that were in place. It's because he didn't get picked to get scanned. True. However, assuming that these new full body scanners were in place and he got caught, then your argument would be moot. On the other hand, he may not have been picked and still gotten on, which leads me to believe that one day, if not sooner than later, everyone will have to go through some sort of scan or pat down.
Of course, this is only one area of the security. There are still the people on the ground that could load something up that they brought in. Doing it in the luggage is a pretty bad idea because I think it all gets x-rayed now days and has been for years, and also gone through by hands (atleast mine has as I always find a nice little note in my luggage)
These new security measures DO make us more safe I think. You certainly don't see anyone walking onto a plane with a stick of C4 in their pocket. No, because there is a very high chance that you will get caught before you make it past the security check point these days. I can't even carry a small swiss army knife on the plane anymore because of the new security rules that are enforced. It's random, so yeah, it's pretty pointless at the moment. You can't turn a filter on once every hour and expect to do any anti-terrorism fighting.
And as I said before (not AT you Jacks, but whoever) you don't have to fly. You can train, car, boat, walk if you don't like the rules that flying has to offer)
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(i thought the NY TS bomber was a setup by the FBI, but that was Dallas idiot who tried that and was arrested)
Here is a hint, it would be called a crime. Oh ****, I gave you the answer. 
