Catching the Rub

 Justin @ Americana:

"In my view, one of the most damning details in the story of John Tyner, the man who refused to submit to an unlawful search or walk through an x-ray machine, is the civil suit and $10,000 fine. If these measures were solely to do with airport security, then these sorts of legal measures make no sense. Terrorists who are presumably willing to die in a plane hijacking are not cowed by such threats. These measures are all aimed in the same direction, to instill fear, deference to authority, and erode a sense of personal rights as the default position of the citizenry using tools of humiliation and coercion. Partially disrobing, submitting to groping or naked body and throwing away your water scans have nothing to do with security."

(emphasis mine)

Addendum: On the tele right now (7:09am), George Clintonopolous referred to the Israeli airline profiling standards as the "common sense approach" because it weeds out people who "are clearly not" threats.