Screw all that, I'd be pissed if someone was stopping me and searching etc on a regular basis 'for my own security'. Fuck that- I MAKE my own security, I don't expect anyone else to help provide it for me, especially when I haven't asked for any help.
One thing I hate hearing at airports and more and more places nowadays is '...for your own safety'. When I hear those four words, I know that I'm not going to like hearing whatever follows, and I'm in for a class A line of bullshit. And I've never been disappointed yet.
The war on terror would be over in a week if the government wanted it over. Remember the "war on drugs" (and what happened to that?) I don't think it we won did we....
Turned out terror is a far easier sell for the gov...