Reply #2: Been Wonderin'' [View All]

Why do we have to endure so much scrutiny, so many long lines, so much inconvenience at airport terminals on ordinary flights -- even extremely short ones if we trust the Dubai government and its agents to take over responsibility for the security of our ports? I see two standards there. Extremely paranoid surveillance of ordinary citizens at airports and extremely lax, permissive standards at the ports. Does the extreme amount of surveillance at the airports serve some purpose other than to prevent terrorism? Mind you I don't travel that much so the airport security is not a big problem to me personally. It's just that there seems to be a lot of inconsistency about security standards here. Why?