Buck Rutledge from Knoxville, Tennessee writes to The Internationald Herald Tribune: “I am not interested in falling from the sky, but it pains me to see silver-haired people removing their shoes and enduring body searches before boarding a plane.
It is time to stop wasting time on these needless searches.
America’s security system is overwhelmed because of the assumption that everyone is a potential terrorist. Agents should instead profile passengers for intense checks.”

How about people who are not silver-haired but who are bald or youngsters who still have all their hair?

The only plausible defense of most security measures at airports (and other places) is that it is surrealism in progress.