Airport Security is optional

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/air-security-technology-stopped-xmas-attack/story?id=9436877

"19 airports across the country already give passengers the option to undergo a full-body imaging scan instead of a pat-down"

The rediculous part of this story (that nobody is talking about) is the decsion by the TSA (last May) to stop using the explosive "sniffer" machines. That decsion is directly linked to this latest security failure. Again nobody connects the dots.

They didn't need the sniffers because they had the body scans. But then the body scan machines aren't available everywhere. Where they are available it is optional because people don't want their hooters on display for all to see.

So as we see security as it relates to explosives is non existent.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/21/AR2009052104361.html