If you're innocent, why should you worry?

[Subotan]

Basically, the mentality is one of extreme worry about the slightest danger, resulting in intrusive checks that haven't stopped anything, and security theater aimed at the biggest hype, not the most dangerous and probable attack. They have never stopped anything; they only delay and inconvenience travelers and trample their rights. Sometimes they get to thinking they're cops and can ask non plane security related questions, and arrest people who don't tell them they're salary.

It never seems like they're on the offensive against terrorism on planes. It's always "Don't do this because there was once a plot which involved this", as if terrorists would be stupid enough to repeat the same plan twice.

If there ever is an award for "most retarded policy ever", the airport security policies should get it.

I wonder when someone will blow up a bomb in that big line before the security check. Even at a small airport like Gardermoen, you should be able to kill at least a few hundred people with a bag full of explosives during rush hour.

That was tried at Glasgow, and was then used an an excuse for the airport to charge people extortionate amounts of money for using the short term stay car-park.

I bet the next big attack will be on a train. There are no security restrictions on using trains, and it's easier to carry a backpack aboard one than it is to carry a matchbox on to a plane.