[bambax]

> Is being searched before you get on a plane or enter a customs checkpoint some kind of hideous infringement of your civil liberties? No!

Of course it is. We're simply used to it, because we're sheep and cowards. But it is. Searching everyone, without probable cause or reasonable suspicion of anything, is a violation of civil liberties, and of basic human decency. It's also pure theater and useless.

And because we have accepted this, other privacy agressions seem justified.