As always, there’s the other side.  In this instance, Kurt Scheidegger, with whom I find myself in general disagreement, offers the government the support that only true believers can provide. From Crime & Consequences :

On the subject of excessively intrusive airport screenings, I agree with Charles Krauthammer. We need to get rid of security theater, get over our problem with “profiling,” and direct more scrutiny to those likely to be security risks and less to those who are not.

Curious.  So even Kurt agrees that